If we always read, we strong learn!

We’ve had a dreadful week working with the children at home.

I get the feeling that either they’re rushing through the work at school or the material is too scattered, which creates quite a bit of confusion for them.

For me, it’s absolutely vital that children read, write and enjoy learning. Children should want to learn, develop their creativity and curiosity, and gradually come to understand life’s challenges...

All of this goes far beyond exams... it’s primary school, not a competitive exam!

Children must learn and acquire skills, but they must also be happy and develop their interests.

My kids like to draw, to build things, to create stories, play music...and there is not too much space in school to do It..So we have to facilitate dituation at home: going to special clases, participating into special contexts or making models at home. 

We all, teachers and parents, are "in the same boat": educate our kids to be well educated and emotional enough to prepare them for life.

In our case, we emphasise daily work on what we consider to be fundamental and go beyond rote learning: language, maths and English.

Writing, reading, understanding maths problems, thinking critically, and knowing how to express themselves and relate concepts to real life... these are the areas we focus on particularly and support very specifically in their learning.

Social and Natural Sciences are more repetitive subjects, and we only teach them techniques for organising their work and study... In this case, as the standard system is repetitive and relies on rote learning... I believe parental involvement is less important.

In English, we’re really happy because we’re starting to see the fruits of years of hard work in the remarkable fluency Álvar and Mártín are showing... We’ve put a lot of time and money into supporting what they learn at school and helping them make progress in the world of the second language...

This weekend we’ve been sorting through my books and exercise books from my primary school days, and we’ve been using my 8 year EGB school books to practise reading, comprehension and discussing the vocabulary needed for the upcoming exams.

This weekend was a total game-changer because we combined traditional methods with my elementary school materials and created reading exercises using Gemini to align the vocabulary and topics with what they’re covering in school.

The truth is that artificial intelligence is very useful and has helped us a lot. And we have a thousand resources at our fingertips to support English learning from home.

Here my books from EGB

Here the reading I created with Gemini

>>link Here

The truth is, it’s a pleasure to support them with their English and see that fluency in communication that we thought would never come… but really…

it’s coming!

I encourage all families to support them, if you can, in this process… it’s a real breakthrough that takes time to arrive, but it does arrive.

And...

This week we have an important date, because Álvar and Martin were involved in a traditional drawing context in which they get used to participate...And they have got a prize!...so after all the effort, they had a reward...