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Category Archives: Homeschooling
Science Saturday
The kids made their first robots today! Click here to see how “waterbots” did. The instructions are from Supercharged Science’s Summer eCamp Robot Lab. You can bet we’ll be doing more.
Posted in Homeschooling, Science
Week 3 Highlights
A few pictures… a few notes. It was too hot to ride so we walked and saw some pretty cool stuff along the way. Jessie & I planted “sock seeds” The kids dug for soil samples to compare And found out just how much air is hiding in potting soil. Whew! It went by so [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Weekly Review
Looking Back at Week 2
Thought I’d post about some of the other things that happened during this week. Mostly pictures with a few notes mixed in. Thought it would be fun to combine our drawing exercise with our Nature Study Subject. Goal was to use all 5 elements of shape to create a butterfly. We used pastels and construction [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Weekly Review
Nature Study: Butterflies
Today we did our second nature study of the year on Butterflies. Here are some pictures that Sam took on our walk around the yard this morning: Not sure what this one is… Bronze Copper maybe? Eastern Tailed Blue photography by Sam White Dotted Prominent? Before starting out we looked up butterflies we have seen [...]
Posted in Backyard, Homeschooling, Insects, Outdoor Hour
Seasonal Tree Observation – Summer
Here are some pictures from the Outdoor Challenge we did today. Jessie chose a Red Cedar (her favorite climbing tree) in the backyard. Sam chose an Ash… in the front yard. So I spent some time going back and forth at first. Jessie’s Red Cedar Tree Looking up the Cedar Tree Sam’s Ash Tree looking [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Outdoor Hour
A New Start
Today was our first “working” day of the new school year. All that prep I did… well, I wasn’t as “prepped” as I thought and spent a panicked few hours Sunday evening trying to get my brain wrapped around how the day might go. Didn’t help much that I’m feeling rather hormonal. :\ Moving along [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
Found and Lost Chapter 1
For your reading pleasure, I have a bit of a guest post. Sam has been working on this story for weeks and is seriously seeking feedback. So, if you have time to read and leave comments he would be seriously ecstatic. Found and Lost an original story by Sam Martin Chapter One A lone figure [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Language Arts
Year Overview 2010 – 2011 Part 3
where we get to Sam’s subjects… Citizenship: Didn’t find anything more in depth for Sam. Perhaps it will come out of the discussions naturally? Composition: Will happen with several subjects. He’s such a great writer! History: I’m so excited about this! Found a new resource in Pandia Press’s “nonsectarian classical approach to history.” SQUEEE! They [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Planning
Year Overview 2010 – 2011 Part 2
Moving on, here are Jessie’s subjects. Wait! One thing I forgot yesterday is our group hand crafts… to work on hand sewing skills I thought we’d make small catnip sachets and donate them to the humane society or second chance. We’ll probably change and do something else at some point but that is what we’ll [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Planning
Year Overview 2010 – 2011 Part 1
Continuing on the planning thread… I’m not going to bore you with my 12 year plan. A bunch of X’s isn’t all that exciting. And it doesn’t really tell anyone but me a whole heck of a lot. So, what are we planning to do? Together: Music/Art App: One of our favorite things is listening [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Planning