Your Children's Learning Styles

This week's Friday Heart of the Matter Meme is Your Children's Learning Styles

I am hard pressed to say what Genius learning style is. Most likely a mix of all the styles, visual/kinesthetic/writing, and by that I mean, if she can get down and dirty with it, she'll learn. We have been thoroughly enjoying the World Studies Social Studies curriculum put out by Bob Jones University Press. We have made our way up to Chapter 5 now, having covered the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation and Mongol Empire. Each unit chapter has "extras" to do with the student to more fully immerse them in the experience. For example the Reformation -- Genius had to imagine she was a child in a German town at the time that Martin Luther's 95 Theses was distributed and write a letter to her cousin explaining the situation at hand. We baked "Apfel Kuechen" (Apple Cake), a traditional German dish and watched the movie Luther starring Joseph Fiennes, all of which immersed her more into the culture and setting of the subject at hand. This really excelled her learning and enjoyment of it.

We are looking forward to studying more using this approach to learn about the history and culture of the people around us!

Comments

[Tracy]

Thanks for sharing!

[Lenore]

wow - sounds like fun! now, why wasn't I home schooled?

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