Life is Sweet The kids went to a dental event on Saturday. We needed some sort of health curriculum and having tagged ‘dental’ as a good plan, it was a perfect fit. The 3, 5, and 8 year olds were all eligible, so they all went with dad, watched a video at a nearby library, … [Read more…]
Workbooking- Week Ending Feb 10 This week was mostly about review for our workbooking. The kids caught up to where they had been before 2 giant unit studies on dinosaurs and the solar system! For my 8 year old, that meant multiplication review, and addition review for the Kindergartner. Here are some photos of the … [Read more…]
Planets Weekly Wrap up of our home school week. This week we studied the planets. Even Pluto, the kids said we must! If I didn’t mention it, they did! This was for the week ending Feb 3rd! This week wrapped up our Outer Space/ Solar System Unit study that took a month. The first week … [Read more…]
The Earth and Sun The Earth and the Sun turn and burn. February went by so quickly that I didn’t even finish posting for January and poof it was gone! I’m playing catch up this week though, so our week 22 is for the week ending January 27th! The kids had already learned that the … [Read more…]
Moon Study This week (ending Jan. 20) we did a moon study! I came up with a clever way for the kids (and me, to be honest) to remember if the moon was waxing or waning. ‘Before the full moon it’s right, and after the full moon is what’s left.’ So before a full moon, … [Read more…]
We broke into this new semester slowly by watching E.T. and going outside to count the stars. At dinner we did our A-Z about ‘topic’ sheet and they blew me away with the terms they knew! Unfortunately it was too cloudy to see the stars and we had to break out a star chart (see … [Read more…]
Just a few snapshots from our break week or should I say weeks! I created some of these for #hiphomeschoolingmoms #365homeschool Instagram challenge. Play along if you dare! This is what break week looks like with four kids! Linking up with Weird Unsocialized Home Schoolers for their Weekly Wrap up. Click HERE for info/to join!
Outer Space Resources Hi this page is our Outer Space Resources we used in 2017 for kids ages 5-8, roughly Kindergarten to 3rd grade level. This accounts for all the videos, movies, literature, kits, worksheets, etc. that we used for the entire unit study on outer space. These Outer Space Resources may help you to … [Read more…]
Dinos are done Dinosaurs continued to roam through our home school as we entered the last week of fall semester! This concludes week 5 of dinos and dinos are done! The kids continued to read dinosaur themed books and I ordered the rest to come in over the holiday. This last week dad was able … [Read more…]
More Dinosaurs This week the kids focused on their sticker workbooks, a great find from Target (see resources). These they could easily do on their own at ages 5 and 8! The 5 year old had a bit of trouble with some of the stickers, but otherwise it worked out fine. They do 4-6 pages … [Read more…]