Took an online quiz yesterday on learning styles, but couldn't get the code to paste... so here are the shortened results... (go to Guilt-Free Homeschooling to take the quiz).
Me - You are a Visual Learner. You like to see things for yourself, read the directions, and study the diagrams. You learn well through reading, and seeing pictures, models, and visual demonstrations. You notice minute details and are fascinated by the intricacies of the world around you.
C.O. - You are a Kinesthetic Learner. You like to move. You feel blindfolded when you have to sit still at a table for hours. Anyone who calls you hyperactive, just doesn't understand that moving your large muscle groups helps your brain to process information. (Some people may have thought that you have a learning disability, but you probably just need extra time and space to move around and digest the facts.) You can learn best immediately after running laps around the backyard, doing chin-ups, or jumping rope, etc. because then your brain is fully activated and ready to receive data.
C.J. - You are a Tactile Learner. You want to get your hands into any project. You like math manipulatives, art supplies (paint, clay, etc.), and other touchy-feely learning aids. You learn best by building models or dioramas yourself. If you can touch something and hold it, you're more likely to remember it.
M - Also a Kinesthetic Learner.
No surprises here!
Homeschooling is calming down a bit now that I calmed down a bit. We spent yesterday afternoon at the library - C.O. got his own library card, which to him was very exciting! Between the books I had on hold, the books the kids picked out and the books M asked for, we have 2 paper grocery bags of books! I let C.O. check out all the kids' books they picked out. The librarian gave me wierd looks with my stack - stuff on homeschooling, the environment, a couple of decent fiction... and a bunch of books on serial killers/crime (for M, who is taking a class on Intro to Admin of Justice this semester). Then at home, the kids played outside for a while, had a late lunch, and then we settled down for lessons. C.J. elected to draw on her Magna-Doodle for a while, while I worked on word families with C.O. This time it was words ending in "ock" and "ost". In ten minutes he got every single one, including the challenge words: "frost", "shock" and "flock"! Then he read a few pages from Fox in Socks (Dr. Suess). After that, he took a Magnetix break while C.J. and I worked on a review of E-H. Then, while C.J. colored her math activity page, C.O. and I worked on a few pages of HWOT, and finished up with math. This time he wrote his number sentences all by himself, without asking for help once! Then he asked me to read aloud a library book - The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales (which gave us some good laughs) - while he colored in his Post Office/USA coloring book. Much better than last week!
Today, after school work, we're going to have a practice tea party for tomorrow, using our very best manners. Of course, I first have to go to class myself - anthropology today!
You're practicing?? Uh oh! ;)
ReplyDeleteI thought that my DD would end up being a tactile learner too since she loves PlayDoh so much and seems to always have something in her hands and/or mouth. I was surprised when it came up auditory, but she is always singing or talking or something.
Hey, you're the one with all the books on manners! ;)
ReplyDeleteI was a little surprised that C.J. wasn't an auditory learner, since she's constantly singing, but then, she's always touching stuff too.