Smoothie on Nostr: Smoothie homeschool mom to 5 girls. Oldest is now 13, youngest 2. As my eldest ...
Smoothie (npub1wmp…u558) homeschool mom to 5 girls. Oldest is now 13, youngest 2.
As my eldest approached "reading" age (she was 5) she came to me and asked me to teach her to read and write. I had difficulty finding material that did not clash with my values and that had a classical educational vibe to it, I dislike overly colourful material and prefer that my children show their own creativity through their learning by using colour or even no colour if they prefer.
I started designing worksheets for her by hand and she immediately absorbed them as I designed them. It evolved into an entire workbook of about 100 pages. It worked so well I wanted to preserve it for our other 2 children at the time (had two more) which meant I would need to digitize the worksheets. At the time I had no knowledge of digital software but was eager enough to learn. I used Libre Office draw and later on Inkscape to design the workbook. I started selling my workbook to other moms in pdf format and print, which was in my native language Afrikaans. I had moms asking me for an English version which I made. My books grew into three more workbooks as well as a reader (not available in English yet). I'm not as fluent in English as I'd like to be, but luckily my husband is and he edits all my books for me.
As of this year I opened up all my books for free and those that wish to support my work can do so in SATS. No donation is too small, every sat is appreciated. It is very scary to open your life's work out there for free but as being part of an open source community I feel this is my way of giving back.
I'm busy revamping and updating all my books and then uploading them to my websites, semcomama.co.za and semcomama.npub.pro
Check it out if you'd wish to add me to your list.
https://semcomama.npub.pro/post/look-mommy-i-can-read-and-write-mhl1l0/
As my eldest approached "reading" age (she was 5) she came to me and asked me to teach her to read and write. I had difficulty finding material that did not clash with my values and that had a classical educational vibe to it, I dislike overly colourful material and prefer that my children show their own creativity through their learning by using colour or even no colour if they prefer.
I started designing worksheets for her by hand and she immediately absorbed them as I designed them. It evolved into an entire workbook of about 100 pages. It worked so well I wanted to preserve it for our other 2 children at the time (had two more) which meant I would need to digitize the worksheets. At the time I had no knowledge of digital software but was eager enough to learn. I used Libre Office draw and later on Inkscape to design the workbook. I started selling my workbook to other moms in pdf format and print, which was in my native language Afrikaans. I had moms asking me for an English version which I made. My books grew into three more workbooks as well as a reader (not available in English yet). I'm not as fluent in English as I'd like to be, but luckily my husband is and he edits all my books for me.
As of this year I opened up all my books for free and those that wish to support my work can do so in SATS. No donation is too small, every sat is appreciated. It is very scary to open your life's work out there for free but as being part of an open source community I feel this is my way of giving back.
I'm busy revamping and updating all my books and then uploading them to my websites, semcomama.co.za and semcomama.npub.pro
Check it out if you'd wish to add me to your list.
https://semcomama.npub.pro/post/look-mommy-i-can-read-and-write-mhl1l0/