If you know me, you know that I homeschool our children. We are blessed to be having our 4th boy in the end of July 2022!
With boys comes all things boyish, and dinosaurs are one of those things that fascinate them! I do a variety of homeschool curriculum per child, as I find one curriculum doesn’t seem to serve every child nor does it serve every subject to every child well. We do need to mix it up every now and again and we decided to use Gatherround Curriculum by Rebecca Spooner. We are using the Dinosaur unit. After looking at it, I feel as though there is a lot of good in it, I don’t personally feel that it is enough to be the curriculum as a whole. In order to meet where my children are at. So we decided to do it on our “fun fridays” as our schooling and we add reading (all about reading) and math (the good and the beautiful). This is what I’m doing for my second grader. My kindergartener isn’t as into that style of learning as he instead loves doing abeka and coloring (where as my oldest son didn’t like to color at that age nor did he enjoy abeka!) So we are doing the fun aspects of the dinosaur unit for him. It’s important to remember that every child is different. They learn differently and they enjoy doing things differently. My oldest loved and currently loves free hand drawing, cutting, and only coloring his creations. My second son loves coloring already drawn pictures, and trying to get him to try to draw is like pulling teeth. He doesn’t enjoy cutting. And he rather sit and have me read to him and him to I.
Anyways, all that said to say here is lesson 1, day 1 of our dinosaur unit study from Gatherround.
It was a good day but honestly I found it more work and exhausting doing school this way! Lol
Mary Smith Creative 