I talked to my aunt who has home schooled 7 children and 2 have already graduated. I asked her if she had any suggestions on things that I could do that would be helpful to start getting Rex and I both ready for the years to come. She suggested reading, reading, and more reading. She said to get Rex to love reading which in turn he will love to learn so I plan on reading no less than 3 books each day to him without including his bedtime story. We will be trying to hit the library on Saturday or Sunday when we can use the car to get there so I don't have to read the same books all the time. This is a small goal and should be easy to fulfill and I'm sure most days we will read more than 3 because once we start reading we normally have to read all the books that he can get too until we have to stop for lunch or other activities.
She also recommended getting started with an alphabet puzzle so we headed to our favorite store today Beyond the Blackboard and started looking around and talking to the ladies that worked there. My plan was to buy this
but once I started looking around and talking to the ladies I ended up getting
and
and Rex loves them. We spent about a hour already playing with them and I will be looking forward to spending time each day with these activities and reading. This will give us a great start and I'm not feeling so overwhelmed.
My aunt is also going to send me a list of books she recommends and some links that will be good for me to start looking at so that I can start researching what type of program we want to try first.
I'm so glad that I'm relaxing over this issue and making it more fun for Rex and I. I think we are going to get some poster board and make a chart and each time we read a book I will give Rex a sticker to put on it. He will love this because he loves stickers and this will help him (and truthfully me too) to think about reading more!
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