What does that look like in real life?
Sis loves horses. She spends the day working with them and caring for them once sometimes twice a week. A trip to the library provides a bag loaded with picture books with horse characters, nonfiction books on horse breeds as well as historical significance, and DVDs on horses. She will uncover each subject in her reading and viewing. You may insist that math is a stretch, but calculating cost of food over a given time period or amount of room required by each horse on a given ranch could prove to be complex and living math.
Bubba is consumed with baseball. He is playing little league games with his team and closely keeping track of his stats on an app his coach uses. Batting practice includes using a Zepp tracker that monitors his hand speed and bat speed to aide in making improvements. Tons of real life math. Biographies on Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson are completed and on his shelf. He watches professional games, observes rankings, and follows certain players. A new show he found is ESPN Sports Science on YouTube that digs deep into the how and why players are able to perform.
Yes, if you are following closely writing has not been covered. Both children are able to keep notebooks with ideas and interesting facts they discover and record. Sis and Bubba maintain personal, private blog that family follows and comments on weekly. In every post, each are able to share what they are researching and learning as often as they like but mostly on Mondays.
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