Once a week or so Siah and I have been muddling through drawing lessons together. I'm not a natural born draw-er. But I am hoping that with some diligence, perseverance, and light-hearted fun, we will both grow a little in our drawing skills over the years to come.
So... I ordered this book on amazon...
They give this Mama some pretty basic, step by step instructions on how to guide and direct my Siah.
And I thought yesterday's lesson went pretty well! The one below is my final product...
And this is Siah's attempt....
That's the "goal"...
He likes to write his name and the date on EVERYTHING!
And here's his final product...
He did good, huh????
The school year is almost over and I just now feel like we are finally getting into a groove of things. It makes me look forward to next year with Siah, but I know that things will be all new again because my lovely Hal will be joining us. Siah will still be taking classes one full day a week and Hal will be taking classes two half days a week next year. I love the school where they take their classes at but I'll be glad to have Siah four full days so that we can form a little more consistency in our day to day routine.
I'm such a "now" person. Whenever I want to learn something, make something, do something, I want it done NOW. And thus why home schooling has been so good for me. It's a loooong term investment. I can't get 12 years worth of learning done in one year. And I don't have to know everything about everything today. I can, and I should, learn new things daily along WITH my children, training them to have a teachable spirit by modeling a teaching spirit in my own life.
I've been thinking back to day one of doing school with Siah. On that day he couldn't even write his name, he didn't know how to write most of the letters in the alphabet, he didn't know most of the sounds that each makes, he couldn't write numbers, or color inside the lines. And this Mama had no idea what to teach him, better yet how I wanted to teach him.
Now he's reading small books, adding numbers, coloring inside the lines, writing sentences. And this Mama is slowly gaining a great desire to help my kiddos gain a passion for learning. I don't want to spend our days together simply trying to get stuff done, checking off boxes simply to say that we've accomplished something in our day. Instead I hope to leave them after each lesson with a desire for more, an excitement for deeper knowledge, perseverance in gaining a way of understanding. Patience is truly a virtue, and God is so faithful to carry us through the day-to-day with hope and joy, even when we feel completely inadequate.
Today I guess I just feel privileged, that's all. Honored that I might have the opportunity to disciple their hearts through the working out of their minds. What a gift! :)
