Insects This week we started on a study that’s been a long time in the making. This week we’re studying insects! We will eventually get to all the classes of animals, but the creepy-crawlies and other invertebrates are first! Since my kids are pretty good with creatures, except things that sting, I started with the … [Read more…]
Animal Classification: Insects Printables and packs used for animal classification: http://www.3dinosaurs.com/printables/packs/butterflylifecycle.php http://www.3dinosaurs.com/printables/packs/bug.php Insects Primary from The Education Center/Mailbox Insects and Spiders Pre-K and K from The Education Center/Mailbox Spiders for Pre-school-Kindergarten from The Education Center/Mailbox Check out our Pinterest board for more printables, I cherry picked ones suited to each child, I encourage you to … [Read more…]
We’ve been working on the workbooks. All the live long day. We’ve been working on the workbooks just to pass our grade levels to-day! Seriously. I’m so done with this and I think the kids are too. We only worked on them a bit at the beginning of the year with spelling words and then … [Read more…]
Plug and chug …is a favorite expression of a teacher of mine. It’s also a description of how my kids just power through the workbooks. Back then it meant, fairly simply, to plug answers into an equation, and chug along until you get to the answer. That was his way of saying ‘just go do … [Read more…]
Week 30- This week was about solidifying skills by plugging along in their workbooks. Since the majority of it was similar to the St. Pat’s skills they worked on last week, it was mostly a piece of cake. That’s an idiom for easy. Right? These silly pieces of grammar are very much woven into our … [Read more…]
This week we focused on all the workbook things we are learning, but through St. Pat’s skills worksheets. It’s a fun way to celebrate the holiday while still keeping to our schedule. We made some treats, saw some wildlife, played in the snow, and celebrated the holiday by putting the baby in fabulous green cloth … [Read more…]
Fact Families Monday started off kind of slowly. The toddler and Kindergartner have a cold and I was up with the toddler (3 yo) most of the night. Needless to say after a restless night’s sleep the night before with my husband out of state (and no one napping when they should for some unknown … [Read more…]
All those ‘at least I didn’t get sick’ comments from the winter have caught up to me. We have late winter colds. We went to a library event the other day and one of the pre-K kids was coughing and sneezing. She had bags under her eyes, well let’s just say they were jumbo suitcases. … [Read more…]
Our new math adventures are subtraction and division. I haven’t posted about the last 6 weeks of our home school. Apparently doing it was overwhelming, or I was focused on other, good things. I’ll get caught back up to finish the solar system unit. If you’re reading this in order you’ll be confused, but that’s … [Read more…]
This week was all about early spring weather. There was a lot of outside time and exploring things like the old bean pods from the summer that were still in the garden. Everyone enjoyed the sunshine and did what they could to help get the new tunnel on the play set. Every spare minute was … [Read more…]