This week, the Homeschool Village asks us to share:
1. what is your child's learning style and/or
2. What is your child's love language.
Feel free to share any resources that helped you along this path.
I think that, here at our house, I can determine how my child learns best simply by working with her on a daily basis. For example, when Ashley was younger, her attention span wasn’t very long; so I learned quickly that she needed visual aids to help hold her attention. Gracie’s not like that – she could work from a plain old b&w resource with no illustrations and be perfectly fine. Funny thing is, you’d expect Gracie to be the one with the imagination then, wouldn’t you? And she’s not! Ashley’s my imaginative writer, while Gracie’s strengths lie more in the area of math.
Ian is so busy that I often joke that I won’t know how to hold him down to school him. We may have to learn things doing jumping jacks, etc. Like Gracie, he’s a very quick learner. He picks things up in day-to-day life that we aren’t even aware of. For example, so far the only alphabet letter he’s worked on writing is capital A. He can write his name (IAN, in all caps). On Sunday in church he was sitting with my mom and very clearly wrote the word “TOY”. He knows this says “toy” because of the Toy Story movies. Who knew he could write the letters, though?
I see these qualities in him and know that I need to spend more time working with him this year. But, I also find it neat that, no matter the environment, he is learning and taking in much more than I could ever teach him from a book.
As for Love Languages, we have and have read Gary Chapman’s book on love languages for adults, but I have not read the version on children. I’m assuming, though, that it’s much the same. That being said, Ian’s love language (at this point) is definitely physical touch. Gracie’s would be, I think, words of affirmation or quality time. Ashley’s I’m not 100% sure about. Teenagers change so much from day to day that, depending on the day or her mood, she could fall into any of the 5!
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