The Great Eight

Have you ever tried homeschooling like a “normal” school day and wondered why your brain (and your kid’s) just screams, “Nope, not today!”? That’s us. My dyslexic teen doesn’t do school and school does not do her.

So today’s lesson was cooking. Doesn’t sound like much, right? But you’d be surprised how much learning you can do around cooking.  She had to think of five cooking words and make creative sentences with them. Her favourite? Knife: “I stabbed somebody’s hand with a knife.” (Why are teenagers like this? 😂)

Then we did a verb finding game, where we thought of the verbs in what we were doing, and a game called guess the verb, where we had to act out what we were doing and the other person had to guess the verb. Which ended with my daughter showing me the latest tiktok trend and a lot of belly laughs. All while cooking fried rice, where we chucked in some measurements and conversions.

Then the rest of the day? We watched a feminism documentary, for some social studies and made rice pudding with leftover rice. YUM. To finish it off she finished some maths on IXL that she’s been stuck on for weeks but finally cracked. 🎉

Was it traditional school? Nope. Was it full of learning, creativity, and actual laughter? Yep. Some days are tough, but today? Today was a win. Dyslexic kids might not fit the school mold, but wow, those brains are bursting with creativity. Dyslexic kids are some of the most brilliant, wonderfully weird minds out there. Let’s stop trying to fit them into a box and just have some fun!