Week 1

This is the first week of the experiment. With a lot of trepidation, the week started with us deciding to follow a normal school week. The good news would be that Saturday/Sunday would be holidays. Happy to report that we could follow it this week.

Now going back to what we achieved in this week. One of the driving principles of the things we want to achieve is the ability to communicate, think critically and creatively. So the activities would be divided up into these 3 categories and the rest would fall in a general basket of other activities.

So this week (as would be the theme of the month), communication focused on the written word. A report and a letter to Grandma (it was her birthday) were the two pieces. In critical reasoning, we worked on some Word Sudoku puzzles. For the creativity piece, we drew a visual timeline of a day and a pop-up card for Grandma (thank you, YouTube). One overlapping activity between communication and creativity was an attempt to write a story.

Hopefully, we can continue and build up on some of these activities and that can help us achieve our purpose of building out these key skills of the future.