Day #4: Freedom of Choice = More Excitement About School

This morning, in my books, was a great one to me. Liam and Alex were eating breakfast and Alex came out and said "I want Liam to do school"; I know why she was asking, it was because while Liam works on his papers and crafts, she gets to color with markers. Letting her color with markers at  this age has always been a little difficult for me, only because I know it is going to be all over her hands, maybe her face, clothes, and maybe the table; I am slowly learning to let my desire for clean and "presentable" kids go, to let them be, they are kids and don't care if they have marker all over them (plus it washes off, right). I am just being honest here, and like I said I am learning things about myself, and having my kiddos around I am learning from them to be happier and do things that make us all happy; so if coloring with markers for Alex makes her happy ecstatic, I will do a little clean up after and we all will be happy.

As for Liam today, I fed him breakfast and let him "choose" his activities for the morning. I gave him freedom to decide when and what he was going to do (within reason obviously, I wasn't going to let him do things that are against the rules in our house). He played with his toys for a little, just using his imagination and making up stories with his toys; that is also learning in my eyes, he grows every day with all the ideas and scenes he comes up with for his toys. Then, out of no where, he comes up to me and says "Mommy, I am ready to do some school now; I want to work on my letters". So, that is what we did; and you know what I had fun with it, he had fun with it, it was a very enjoyable day of learning.

Here is a look into our morning:

Working on his worksheets

    

 After some worksheets it was time for a story from the Bible:

This is the best picture I could get of my silly ones settling in for story time. 

Don't judge our outfit choices, Liam picked his clothes and Alex is now Princess Sophia, they are happy.

This Bible was actually mine and my brother's when we were young, 

it will be fun sharing it with my kids.

Then of course it was time to dance:

The first few pictures were to this song

I find this picture silly, he was dancing to this song, 

so obviously a more serious face was needed. 

I couldn't help but chuckle.

And then these two couldn't help but laugh and dance to this next song

Here are Liam's finished sheets for today: 

(he is definitely improving with tracing his letters)

               

                        - The "orange" is circled because he                                                                                         believes it is a clementine, I think he is right    - He got a little excited during this one 

                                                                                   and wasn't paying attention with the C

  This worksheet was found here, there are a

 bunch of free printables that my little one loves.

Now to explore outside and learn responsibility through chores 

(age-appropriate ones of course) the rest of the day. 

We hope you have a great day as well!

Thank you for joining us on our journey!!