Tommy and I have both enjoyed getting back into the swing of things at home and recommencing preschool. His reading skills really took off over Christmas, and Derek keeps telling me to get going on phonics so that he’s learning the right rules and not just guessing all the time (though he usually guesses right). One side effect of our phonics program is that he’s actually learning a ton of new vocabulary. Every time he reads a new word, he either uses it in a sentence (unprompted by me) to show he knows what it means or asks me what it means. Sometimes I really have to think about how to explain a meaning to him. He’s also increasingly aware of unknown words in songs or whatever. Yesterday we were listening to Christmas songs in the car (I know, I know…) and he asked me what “virgin” meant. It took me a minute to realize he was asking about Mary! Today he told me, “Mommy, I just love math!” (Mostly because we’re doing a lot of coloring and counting games.) Because I want to keep our official school time down, we haven’t done a ton of French lately. But today we pulled out a French animals memory game, and he beat me fairly. For now, I love being a homeschooling mom!
I bet everyone is curious as to how you defined virgin to a four year old:)
I know I am! 🙂
Well, once I figured out he was talking about Mary, I said that usually it takes a daddy and a mommy to make a baby, but with Jesus, it was just the Holy Spirit and Mary because she was a virgin. Vague, but Tommy seemed satisfied. Next time, I hope Derek is around when he asks!
Hey, no wimping out with, “Go ask your father”!
This reminds me of the time I was teaching Sunday School to a bunch of first-graders. We were going through the Ten Commandments and one of them asked me, “What’s ‘adultery’?”.