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Just Our Thoughts
Sep. 18, 2008
Jungle Theme produced this in our tree . . . .
It's a little hard to see, but in this tree we have a snake! Yes, a snake; a paper chain snake.
It's long. I hardly helped with it at all. I got it started; gave M a job (feeding the paper through the hole) and gave K the job of stapling. CJ was busy with the kitten. I drew the face and put it in the tree. It's long! K said, "I bet it's as long as you and Daddy on top of each other, Mom!"
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Sep. 5, 2008
Reviewing Our Choosen Homeschool Curriculum
Draw, Write, Now! Books 1, 2, 3
The girls have been working on book one. They like the drawing part but are not so keen of all the writing involved. We usually pick one or two sentences.
ACSI Mathematics 1 & 2
When K and I started with the review pages in Grade One we realized that she should maybe start there this summer and move on to Grade Two later in the year. So I have to order a new Grade One book for CJ. K is on Chapter 3 or 4 right now.
Canada, My Country
Haven't looked at this much, but have rave reviews! We'll get into it eventually.
Canada-opoly
Played this almost daily for a week straight.
Bug-opoly
Did receive this in the last couple of weeks. We played it once or twice. The girls like it a lot but we haven't got into reading the backs of the cards where the extra information about bugs is "kept".
Penpal letters
These are the biggest hit! They love to receive the mail at the post office and writing letters isn't too much of a chore. We print off pretty paper and use cool pens and stickers. This time the plan is to put some little gifts in for the girls we are writing to because my girls received some "treats" at the Wellness Fair.
Various Unit Studies
Working on a Bee Unit but haven't done much with it. We'll get back to it probably next week.
Lapbooking
Copywork, as needed (using penpal letters for most of their writing stuff)
Using copywork sheets with our Bible lessons so they get practice writing what we are learning.
Internet and computer programs / games
I grounded them from the computer for the time being! They made a HUGE mess of my desk one day!
UB David + I'll B Jonathan (Mailbox Club type program)
This only comes in the mail every so often and we haven't been good about getting it back to them for grading. But when it comes in the girls are eager to read everything in the package.
BOB Books for learning to read
We took a break from these books but K has asked to get back into them just this morning.
All About Spelling
Haven't even looked at this yet. We are too busy with everything else.
How To Teach Science
They are asking to learn more about the periodic table again. We only ever did Hydrogen but we'll get into that too. I found a new cool site with YouTube videos that explain the elements in greater detail. I can't wait to get into them. They look very well done.
Come Sit By Me
This is mainly for the younger ones but K likes to listen to a story too. I don't know that I'll do all or any of the activities but it gives us a good list of books to check out and read and talk about.
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Sep. 5, 2008
Homeschool Log: Bible Lessons In The Morning
So, we have started something new to us. Right after breakfast is cleaned up we learn about some part of the Bible. Eventually I'd like to find a book we can follow, but for now I am just picking stories, printing coloring pages and copywork pages and we are talking about what we are learning.
The very first one that we did was Shadrach, Meshach and Abendigo. They colored pictures while I read and have been coloring in the little coloring books that I made up for them.
Secondly, we started a miniseries on the Ten Commandments. The first day we read the whole story and colored a page. Today, the second day we worked on this topic, we talked more indepth about the first commandment.
Ex. 20:3 KJV - Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
or another way to say it
Do not worship any other gods.
We have a poster in the window with the 10 commandments listed on tablets.
So then we talked about what worship means. I looked it up in the dictionary. We came up with:
to worship God means to do things that show that we love God.
We started a new duotang called: Words We Learned and put that definition into it.
We will continue on like this (at least that's the plan) through the ten of them.
Something encouraging that K said today while doing our lesson: If we were doing this at church I would be sooooo bored. I asked if she was bored doing it here and she said that she wasn't! Woohoo!!!
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Aug. 11, 2008
Currclick Weekly Freebie
Okay, if you haven't signed up for the weekly freebie from Currclick already, you really need to! This week's freebie is incredible! And I've always enjoyed the products other weeks too!!!
This week's file is from Teach Book Bag! 133 pages of bright and well laid out pages!! Go check it out!
Here's a link to the site: Currclick - Curriculum in a click!
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Jul. 11, 2008
Homeschool Log for July 10-11
Canada-opoly - just a short game as I got really really sleepy.
ACSI Gr. 1 Math (K) - pgs 10-25!! I bet she gets it done by fall, at least by Christmas.
a page or two in an old phonics book, from when my brothers were in the primary grades.
Franklin the Turtle videos - teaching about morals and good behavior.
The Waltons - family life.
Imaginative play - today they went around the world in 220 weeks. They were in jungles and other such places and seeing wild animals and having the wind scare them. They took "food and water" with them in "food jars". And W couldn't come because he'd get prickles on him and the animals would eat him. Then at another point today M was dressed in a horse costume and they were playing something with her too.
Cookies - see recipe here.
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Jul. 9, 2008
Homeschool Log: July 9, 2008
Today we didn't do anything formal at home, at least not so far. But we created a plan. Our days have been disorganized and not really productive. What's the plan? At breakfast we plan to make a plan for the day. What are we going to do? Are we going to do math workbooks? Play a board game? Learn some Canadian history? When will we clean up? Is there a specific program we want to watch either on TV or on a DVD? Are we going to get some groceries? Get slushies? Go to the library? Or to the park? Are we going to have company? Who? I hope that it gets the children a little more involved in our daily life and in planning what is happening not only in their lives but in their education as well.
The other thing that we did was went to the public library for their stroy time today. We should have gone at 11AM for the preschool age one but we had too rough of a morning so when we went to pick up a couple things, the older group was meeting so we joined in with them! They did a number of crafts and listened to some stories.
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Jul. 9, 2008
I missed the seminar!
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