This is beautifully written and explained. Thank you. The same holds true for classroom teachers. There is so much pressure to move on, get to the next thing, but so much missed (as you described) by not taking time to revisit stories over and over.
This is truly wonderful. Thank you so much!!! I don’t have children of my own but I’m very blessed to be able to read and glean from the wisdom of wonderful godly educators such as yourself. Lord willing, I’ll have the occasion to share this wisdom with other young families in my church. Thank you so much once again!
I’m so glad you wrote this as I read a picture book to my K/1st graders yesterday for at least the 10th time.
I can see each stage that you described and the purpose you assigned to it has given me permission to resist speeding along in our curriculum without guilt.
Even books that I was worried might have a negative influence, such as, “The Seven Silly Eaters,” influenced my children to deeply internalize the exhaustion of the mother and how the children stepped up to help her rather than just their proclivity for being picky/whiny eaters.
Now to determine what I can skip in my Memoria press curriculum that will not leave too many foundational gaps. We are somewhat in between a reading family and a wrote practice one. Sometimes the practice sheets help; sometimes they explain things in ways I would not have considered, but I think I learned most by reading everything.
This is beautifully written and explained. Thank you. The same holds true for classroom teachers. There is so much pressure to move on, get to the next thing, but so much missed (as you described) by not taking time to revisit stories over and over.
Deep wisdom
This is truly wonderful. Thank you so much!!! I don’t have children of my own but I’m very blessed to be able to read and glean from the wisdom of wonderful godly educators such as yourself. Lord willing, I’ll have the occasion to share this wisdom with other young families in my church. Thank you so much once again!
I’m so glad you wrote this as I read a picture book to my K/1st graders yesterday for at least the 10th time.
I can see each stage that you described and the purpose you assigned to it has given me permission to resist speeding along in our curriculum without guilt.
Even books that I was worried might have a negative influence, such as, “The Seven Silly Eaters,” influenced my children to deeply internalize the exhaustion of the mother and how the children stepped up to help her rather than just their proclivity for being picky/whiny eaters.
Now to determine what I can skip in my Memoria press curriculum that will not leave too many foundational gaps. We are somewhat in between a reading family and a wrote practice one. Sometimes the practice sheets help; sometimes they explain things in ways I would not have considered, but I think I learned most by reading everything.