What happens when Daddy takes over? When my husband offered to let me nap and insisted HE would do Mother Goose Time with the kids, I was skeptical to say the least. I mean, did he know what to do, how it worked, where to find the bags, what day we were on?????? And for goodness sake, DON’T FORGET THE PICTURES!!!!!! 😉 I can’t even begin to tell you the blogger temptation I felt to sneak downstairs and take some pics of him teaching on my smartphone. I mean, this was breaking news, it needed to be documented! But instead I honored his sweet gesture and slept, it was epic.
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My Favorite Thing: When School Happened While I SLEPT!
I really can hardly believe I am writing these words. I was at the end of my rope. I was exhausted! When Jonathan told me to sleep I told him I couldn’t, and started listing off the regular list of excuses. Until he told me “don’t worry about it, I’ll do it all, just rest”. Um, say wha?
It was the most heavenly, deep, blissful sleep of my life. Why you ask? Because not only was I getting to sleep in the afternoon while my kids were safe and being watched by someone BUT my list was being accomplished at the same time!
But the Real Question is… How Did it Go????
I guess it is one of their little secrets I will never know. He said it went fine, the crafts were lining the table afterwards, the camera had pictures, the kids said it was “epic”. So… good? I think?
Jonathan said he spent a lot of time learning about what is IN different rooms of the house.
What is this? -a bathroom
How do you know?
Using objects and clues to help recognize the world around them.
Aliyah looks a bit concerned that Daddy is doing school with them.
One of the highlights of the day for them was the month’s theme poster. Aliyah is 3 and Jonathan said she had a lot of fun comparing the home in the poster with our home. Deciding which room was which, etc.
With the older kids, they played games. They used the other magnifying glasses and Jonathan talked with them about our home address and how we can tell different houses apart.
Take a look at what I came downstairs to find:
I think all in all it was a huge success. I have a tendency to take over, to do all the schooling in our home simply because I know what we are doing (and I love it, who am I kidding). I think having me out of the way though gave my homeschooling dad a chance to try Mother Goose Time for himself. To see what the kids were learning and try to adapt it to fit in with all the different ages and stages of our family. I was pretty darn proud of him and think we should make it a weekly occurrence (thoughts honey?) 😉
I think it is a huge testament to Mother Goose Time as well. Jonathan coined it “So Simple A Husband Can Do it!”. So there you have it!
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