And the question becomes WHY?

[homesteadmamma]

We've been homeschooling now for almost a full 8 years. Ds#1 never asks why, he just does the work. When he looks at math, he has the answers immediately, doesn't need any explainations. He is a savant in math and stats. He is a visual learner.

Now on the other hand, along comes dd who is now doing Gr. 5 math and wants to know why for everything. Why do they want that? Why did they put that there? Why do we need to know that? (in math I sometimes wonder myself). Why is there no line there and on and on its goes. She is an audio learner.

What a difference from one kid to the other in teaching them.

Are you kids different when it comes to homeschooling them? Share what there like, how they learn. Do you sometimes find it hard to teach a different learner than you might be. I'm so visual, so I have to really work at the audio. How about you?

[guest2]

I have 2 children that have amazing memories. Josh can see or hear something once and he's got it. Chris does well with this also most of the time. Jaysn struggles and has to be shown how to do something and do it a few times before he understands it. However, this is the kids who taught himself advanced math and is now doing physics because "it's fun"!

[canadian gardener]

Mine are now in university, but ds could look at a math equation and it made sense to him, he frequently fought me about writing out the process because for him the process happened in his head really fast.

Dd on the other hand, was my 2 forward, 1 back girl. She would gain an understanding, shoot ahead for a while, then it would all disappear, and she would find herself 20 lessons ahead, wondering what was going on.

I'd routinely pull her back to the last sure position, and she would take another run at it.

She did that 2 forward, 1 back shimmy thruout, and now she knows that is how she learns, and consolidates what she learnt (2 separate processes with her).

Her grasp on the concept is almost as solid as her brother's once she gets there though.

In writing however they were opposite again, ds struggled to write a paragraph and dd wrote reams and reams whether asked to or not.

both of them prefer different areas of science, with dd enjoying biology, genetics specifically molecular genetics being something that seems to come naturally as breathing to her. She is good at chemistry but doesn't like it as much.

Ds would rather have his teeth drilled, but in physics he shone, preferring complex calculations again. He did fine in chemistry.

Both of them enjoyed different aspects of history with ds preferring the last 200 years and dd liking almost anything before the late middle ages. Her favourite period and place is Ancient Egypt, she doesn't care much for Greek history.

[Heather]

They sure do learn differently don't they! Mine are the same. Delaney is why, why, why. Dylan is very hands on and Kody can grasp math and science like a sponge!