Homeschooling!

We started. Sunday was the first official Homeschooling day for David. He is 5 1/2 years old, and since there are no Jewish schools here in Napoli (and i would NEVER send my kids to another city so young), his education will be in our hands, at least until he is about Bar Mitzvah age, with G-d's help.
We decided to divide the subjects between me and Alec: i do Alfabeth and a bit of Math, and Alec does Alef Beth and Jewish studies...at least this is the program for now: when Math will become more complex i will let Alec do it ( i have always hated Math), and i will teach something else, maybe Hebrew Grammar, will see...
Anyway, today we learnt letter "U", and David filled in the paper that i gave him with all the exercises beautifully, even though he told me that he doesn't want to "work too much" :D
As a reward, we give David (and Simcha and Moshe) one coin made out of cardboard for each thing that they learn, and with that they can buy candies and lolly pops from the "store" that i prepared in a plastic box...
So far so good.
I hope that i will be a good teacher for them, even though i don't have much patience left after chasing them around the house and taking care of the everyday chores...Alec seems much better than me, more relaxed and less strict...but i guess there is the need to set rules, too, and i happen to be the more stringent one.
I must say that it makes me very happy when i see that our kids learn new things, and they do it happily. I think that all kids should be brought to the point of wanting to learn more and more, not obliged to. I think that if a teacher can accomplish that, then it's a good teacher...