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No matter how much your children enjoy homeschooling you can always stand to be a bit more creative, right? Well, here are two sure fire ways to get their attention:
Animated Reading
Another fun activity they like to do is what I call animated reading. They have to read to me while acting out the scene. It’s kind of like charades on steroids. As you can imagine it gets really interesting during certain chapters of great books like Island of the Blue Dolphins and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Once we were doing animated reading and the phone rang so I answered in the middle of a very animated Magic Schoolbus rendition of digging up dinosaur bones. My grandmother became quite excited when she thought we had found real dinosaur bones in the back yard. After I explained she said, “Oh, so they don’t call you Ms. Frizzle then either?” Uh, no grandma they don’t!
Role Reversal Days
Our favorite creative idea is role reversal day. They get to teach me what they’ve learned over the last month or so and I sit intently and listen. They think that this is so fun because they are pretending to be the teacher but what they don’t know is that it is really just another way to test what they have learned. I also love saying things like, “Awe, mom! Do we have to do this again?” Then watch as their little wheels spin to come up with fun ways to teach me!
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