"Teach Me Tuesday"

I was inspired today by my friend, Maggie, to write this blog. She is a homeschooling momma of four (soon-to-be-five) cute, adorable, girls. I don't know how she manages to teach them all as they're at such different stages. So I thought I'd give my own "Teach Me Tuesday" a shot...

I decided to capture every moment around me last night at dinner and I discovered that there are SO many ways that they are learning and I am teaching...I just didn't realize it. Here's our journey at dinner last night.

It was Jenna's turn to help cook dinner. She wanted cheeseburgers and mac n' cheese. So she helped me:

We have to turn the bbq on first and let it get nice and hot before we can cook on it

We talked about how fire is really hot and it cooks our food for us.



The pot is a circle and we fill it half-way with water. It has to "make bubbles" before we can put the macaroni in to cook



Then we add the cheese and we mix it all around. We talk about how it "feels" and the color.

Josh is helping Julianna learn how to help out too. He knows which dishes are breakable and which are not and helps his little sister learn how to help mommy. :) They get to hlep with the dishwasher while the dinner is cooking.

 

Since yesterday was "Pi" day (3.14), we had piE and talked a little about how it is used to measure circles. Since the kids are still only 3 and 4 I don't go into too much detail. But Josh screamed out - "Hey, that box is an octagon!" LOL...



What ways do you "teach" and help your little ones learn?