Oral Narrations

It's been so long since I've blogged, I feel like I can't remember how.

As I've mentioned before, I love the Charlotte Mason homeschool method. Oral narration is the natural approach to finding out what your child retained from his readings. She encourages using only oral narration up until they are about 10 or 11 and then moving on to one written narration per week and slowly moving up to 3 or so. Click HERE for a quick example of my 7 year old Kade (2nd grade) narrating a chapter from The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame. This was actually done back in January or February I can't remember.

Good news, we've decided not only to keep homeschooling Kade next year but to also keep Jaxon home as well. Yes, he loved his school and he had a fabulous year, but all of his friends have moved or had to change schools and we have also moved, so rather than he change schools AGAIN we will homeschool. We are all SO excited about it, and feel it's going to be a lot easier now that we've got 1 1/2 years under our belt. It also helps that several families from our new ward (church) are also homeschoolers.

Summer life has been fun. We love our new house and we are enjoying the extra time together. As usual we are doing lots of swimming but also a lot of learning, reading and some gardening. I've planned a lot of field trips too, some of them are...the new Tempe Aquarium, the circus, boating, movies, library, science center, play, ranch and water park. We will be taking a trip to Utah in July for some family reunions.

I am taking an online photography workshop, trying to get into shape, planning the next school year and reading lots of great books. I finally finished The Red Tent and am now reading The Promise and The Goose Girl. Time is flying by at lightening speed...