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It’s been silent on A Homeschooling Resource, but we are still homeschooling. We were away for the Thanksgiving holidays and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Things are starting to settle down with my work so I’ll be able to post a few pictures of the things we have seen while we were away.

Aiyana is moving onto regular books with her reading and is tackling “big words” over six letters. She’s very proud of herself. With homeschooling my daughter I’ve never pushed her to read but this is something she has always wanted to do. I imagine, in her mind, this is normal. Homeschooling, I think, starts well before the child even materializes. I was reading to her when I was pregnant. Then I was reading the complete collection of Winnie the Pooh. It’s still one of her favorite books.

Although Aiyana can now read she still insists that I read to her at night or tell her a story. She likes me to make up stories for her. At times, I make up a story, but repeatedly I’ll turn the spotlight on her and tell her to create a story for me. It’s a fun exercise that really encourages her to be creative. I really need to start capturing some of her stories on film.

I’ve always been fascinated with history and Aiyana, seems to be interested in the history books and websites that I’ve been reading. I’m most fascinated with war history and the roles that minorities have placed throughout history. Since my daughter has shown such an interest in what I enjoy I’ve decided to include it in hour homeschooling sessions.

Mike Goad of Exit 78 wrote a post titled Ashamed to be Indian.  My daughter is Indian, Black, Irish, and German.  Not only is it important for her to know about the cultures she is a part of I also feel it is important to educate her about others.  I’ll be reading the letter included in Mike’d post sometime this weekend. her great grandmother was Indian, Black, and Irish.

Although she was two years old when she died my daughter still remembers her and will tell you about various events that happened during some of their meetings.

I’ve always liked this painting by Norman Rockwell. He is portraying Rosy the Riveter. My grandmother, Aiyana’s great grandmother, was a Rosy Riveter, and she also was one of the first women to work in real estate.

My grandmother was very light and could pass for white. She did. In doing so she was able to receive better work than those who couldn’t. In our homeschooling session I’ll be talking about this and the reasons why some of those who could pass did.

Aiyana reminds me a lot of myself at her age. I had an insatiable thirst for knowledge; I still do. I was eager to learn anything that my mother or teachers gave to me. I was hungry for information. It learned to read early, just like Aiyana, simply because I felt in reading I would be able to get more information.

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