Friday, December 7, 2012

SPACE to SOW and GROW - Sera's Self-directed Learning

For the last couple of weeks, Seraphina has initiated a new learning venture.

She grabs an early reader book from the shelf and copies it word for word into her notebook. She seems to really enjoy forming the letters on the page, holding her pen and mouth just right. It is such a pleasure to watch her as she delves into reading and writing.


As she writes, we read the words together and she makes sense of the story. Afterwards she draws a beautiful picture to illustrate what she has just written.






She's also been practising math. Totally self-directed! I have never taught her how to form numbers or how to write sums. I think she saw an example of a written sum somewhere at sometime and then decided to experiment herself with it. Was such a surprise to find this in her book!

Love this Life!