by The Boss
On Monday, we started our new homeschool year. If the rest of the year is anything like the last two days, we are going to have so much fun!
Yesterday, the boys started learning the letter “I”. We sat down, and I showed them how to write it. I told them that capital “I” was like a tall man with a straight line for a hat, and a straight line for his shoes. Lowercase “i” was a short man with a little hat…or something like that. Then we went over the sound that “I” makes, and did some other things.
At the end of our little lesson, I said to Andrew, “OK! Now tell me what letter we learned today.” He looked at me and with a huge smile, he said, “The tall man with the hat!” “Yes, Andrew, but what is the letter’s name?” He thought for a minute, and replied, “K!” He laughed. I asked him again, “What letter did we learn today?” He said, “Hmmm…let me ask Zion. Hey Zion! What letter did we learn today?” Zion smiled this huge smile and said, “K!” Then they both just laughed a lot. I asked him again, “Do you think you can tell me the name of the letter we learned today? He thought for a second and said, “Wait Mom. Let me talk to my brain. My brain knows the name of the letter but he wont tell me.” Then he spoke to his brain, “Hey Brain! Do you think you can tell my Mom the name of the letter we learned today?” Then he looked at me and said, “Sorry, Mom. My brain said no. Maybe you should just tell me again.” I told him. He laughed…no…cackled and ran off to play.
I should say, that I wasn’t bothered that he didn’t know the name of the letter. He knew the sound it made. We were just having fun. So, today, we learned more about the letter “I” and numbers and all sorts of fun things. Later in the day, the boys were playing with their Lego’s and I told them they should build a capital “I” to show their dad when he got home from school. I told them not to worry about making a lower case “i”. Mostly because I didn’t think there was a way to make a lower case “i” with Lego’s. Obviously, I didn’t play with Lego’s very much as a child because 3 minutes later, Andrew popped up with these…
I kissed his face and told him how smart he was, and he said, “It’s OK Mom. I know I’m smart. You don’t have to kiss me.”
I assume Andrew is enjoying school because every so often he get’s excited and yells, “And the crowd goes wild! SCHOOL! SCHOOL! SCHOOL!” I’m assuming Zion is enjoying school too…
