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How do you use living math books in your homeschool?
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Do you read them over the summer or do you have a set day during the school year for reading living math books? Thanks
My D’s has discovery time after lunch daily. He rotates through subjects, so once a week he goes to his math center. I put living math library books there and he enjoys it.
@mama_nickles, please tell us about your discovery centers.
Sorry I didn’t reply sooner. My post got eaten!
We got the idea for discovery corners from the book, “Educating the Wholehearted Child.” I love that book! They list off a bunch of different ideas for different “discovery” type learning you can offer your kids. What has worked best for DS6 is that I set “discovery time” (about an hour, right after lunch) and he does each of the 4 centers Monday through Thursday, then picks one for Friday. We have history/geography, science/nature, math, and drawing/writing. They all have books (of course), some from my personal library that I rotate through and some from the local library. They have workbooks/activity books, puzzles, flashcards, other hands-on activities. The math center has an abacus and a bucket balance. The science one has some old electronics to tinker with. The history one has several map puzzles.
DS really enjoys discovery time! When DD5 is ready, she will rotate through different stations on different days, and I may add in some more stations in the future. I love the open ended learning where I can present the books, but DS can pick which thing to do. I am pleasantly surprised at how much he enjoys workbooks!
Are these areas of your house? I’m just wondering where in the world I would tuck something like this so that it wouldn’t be played with and pieces/books/etc. lost.
I’ve just been thinking about doing some baskets for our youngest. This gives me more ideas for her. THANKS!
We have a pretty big house. We have 2 centers in the dining room (we have an eat-in kitchen) and 2 in the basement den. If the house was smaller I’d do something with a cart and drawers I think.
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, I may put all of our extras in cube baskets. We have one of those cube shelving systems in our living room (where most of our learning takes place.) Everything is just shelved. The cube baskets might perk things up a bit. I’m thinking that our extras would become our “centers.” I’ll post if I actually follow through on it and share the results.
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