Hello everyone...
It's been a while that I shared something about our activity in teaching our little daughter, but I definitely still read the interesting posts here... just have been enjoying becoming a silent reader.
We have been living in country that doesn't permit "homeschooling", so we simply taught our child things that especially invoke her interest during our relax time.
This is why I didn't keep track about our learning process in orderly manner, because we didn't teach her with a pre-set goal.
We are basically just explaining the stuff that she wanted to know as far as she can catch up with it and the topic is mostly according to her own request.
This year is in fact her first school year but her knowledge level is actually already far advanced than her peers... so she already got bored since a while.
She is somehow a little precocious at some point, but on the other hand..she is also very playful and disorganized like typical children at her age...
So... the initial idea that once came into my mind >>to let her jump classes<< might not be a good idea at all even if she's cognitively capable enough, because higher class would also mean more responsibility, more burdn. It requires more discipline...and she doesn't seem to be ready for that just yet.
The ideal format of education for her is actually the one which can be adjusted to her personal speed and scope of learning materials that make her interested.
And this is something that doesn't exist in Germany. The most one can do here probably to jump classes or to put her into special school for geniuses, which not necessarily what she would enjoy at all even if she is truly diagnosed as one of those special kids.
Jumping classes would force her to mingle with friends who are older than her and have different way of thinking and spending time afterall.
Anyway I need to underline this: "Compulsory School is not the same as Compulsory Education".
I am definitely standing for **"Compulsory Education" **because every children have right to get education for their future sake,
but NOT for Compulsory School...
Because Every Individual Is UNIQUE!
Our children have their own interest, their own specific talent, their own strength and weakness, they have their own speed and pace in learning, so it's not good to put them in the same mold by force because this way we would only restrict them and prevent them from exploring and developing their potential of growth to the max.
However... I didn't do much to make an arrangement for our daughter with the school management because we have decided to migrate soon anyway, and our target country "Philippine" allow "homeschooling", so there are many great and reputable homeschooling providers in this country to choose, so that our daughter can always choose to just learn at home if she feels better with this education style.
But if she enjoys to be in school, we'd not go against it either...
What we want is merely some options for her to freely choose according to what she needs or feel good with.
From the video that I attach here you can see how far she had learnt in math.
Now she's 6 years old, but she is interested in learning about coordinate system and could understand rather well too.
She is not only interested in math, because her favourite channel in YouTube is Silicon Valey Kids 😜, Binogi and everything related to chemistry, outer space, physics and Co 😅 ( I opened an account for her as a child account, a sub account under my supervision, so I could see whatever she watches).
She is now a member of a chess club and has an own account in online chess software.
She could operate a computer, and needs to be noted: my computer is using linux OS.
FYI, I still make sure that she does her homework from her teacher no matter how simple she thinks of them, I don't want her to grow up becoming an arrogant type of person afterall :).
Anyway, why simple, for her age..the things learnt are of course not too simple, but... Well, for her surely it is.
She can read and write well in indonesian, english and german (even if her writing is not pretty LOL), but she had to do the homework which requires her to write single words each time; she can even do calculation with variable, solve a linear function and draw the result in the coordinate system diagram;
on the picture not only that you can see how she solved the function, but you could also see beside the graph >> how she created her own addition problem ( with 3 digit numbers) and solved it well too :). That addition problem is not made by me, it's her own made LOL.
but her homework now is teaching calculation using pictures with the maximal sum of ten. So...you can imagine how bored she is...
But at least, she doesn't have a rough time with her peers. I am still feeling lucky that she doesn't have to face mobbing.
I'm a member of a parent group in facebook whose children starting school this year and I feel bad finding out that mobbing is really not a rare case...
I feel so bad that children at this age already has to experience such a horrible thing.
Hence I feel lucky for my daughter that despite her boredom, she doesn't have to face such a horrible experience.
She doesn't feel bad to go to school everyday although she struggles in waking up early everyday :-D.
As a closure...we have booked our one way ticket to Philippine in March, and started to deal with the paperwork for the longterm residency permit, our friends all have asked about how our daughter react to our migration plan... some people even talking about "selfishly, forcefully uprooting her from her origin etc.pp.
All I can say is: "No one...certainly No body can foresee the future. No body can say that they can always be sure to make the right decision in life, neither can we.
There is certainly a possibility that our decision might end up being a bad decision... but if we never take the risk, there will be no opportunity to get the gain 😌.
Our daughter has been travelling the world and meet people of different culture who speak different languages since she was still a fetus in my womb until now that she's six. She was nearly one year old and started learning to walk when we took her to Krakow with us to take part into the Steemfest (now known as Hivefest), and the travel went on to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Spain, Kostarika...
So for her... it's just one of the adventure her parent can offer her again 😉.
Once she even said that she can't hardly wait...LOL.
I needed to take time explaining to her that it's not as simple as she imagine: we still need to get the paperwork done, to sell the house etc...
And do you know how she replied me?
She said: "Why can't people just go anywhere in the world like the birds fly to somewhere warm in Africa when it's getting cold here...? Human makes their own life harder than it already is..."
I was so stupefied...now no one can deny that SHE has indeed the GENE of Herr @jaki01 LOL. That sentence is a typical sentence that could come out from him 😄.
Anyway...there is nothing to worry about her... I'm convinced that she's coping very well with the migration idea :).
That's it for today, we'll see you again next time in the next post.
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Happy new year and may you all have a great year ahead :)