Our homeschooling and home building story.
This week was dinosaur week! We forgot to take a picture of our books but we had a lot of good ones! Favorites included When Dragons Hearts Were Good, How do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?, and Three Little Dinosaurs. Ari's favorite was Dinotopia and I can't blame her. The... Continue Reading →
Life was a little more exciting this week because Ari took a tumble and managed to break 3 fingers. Thankfully all in her left hand. But that has meant many hours waiting at clinics, radiologists and consults and we aren't done yet. We've also had lots to do at our house: cleaning up drywall dust,... Continue Reading →
This week was T for turtle and also for perseverance using Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hair. We made turtle snacks, pretended to be turtles with box shells, and made a turtle craft. We read several books. Favorites were Yertle the Turtle, Big Turtle, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Oopsy-Daisy. It was... Continue Reading →
Time for our annual visit to the pumpkin patch! We went out to our regular patch this year with our co-op friends. We enjoyed all the animals but especially the bee hive. I've been reading Bessie Bee to my kids every morning and so they were really interested in seeing the hive. They picked out... Continue Reading →
This week was nest week, with a broader intro to animal homes but the deep focus was on bird nests and the idea that God takes care of us like a parent bird takes care of its eggs and chicks. We played an animal home matching game where you match the animal to their home... Continue Reading →
It's Fall! And with that comes some fall fun! We've been to a Renaissance faire, attended a bike derby (Ari rode 10 miles!), visited my folks and navigated through a corn maze...and it's only October 2! Looking forward to more fall fun. Since I have spring allergies, fall is my favorite season. Watching the joust... Continue Reading →
We had fun with apple week! We bought several varieties of apple, compared and taste tested them. We learned about the fruit of the spirit and made apple tree collages. We played catch with an apple, tried apple crisp and apple pie, and ate caramel apples. We read books, our favorites were 10 Apples Up... Continue Reading →
L is for leaves! Most of the leaves around here are still green but we had fun with them anyway! We sketched trees, made leaf rubbings, leaf prints, traced leaves, pressed leaves, sorted leaves, made leaf crowns and leaf animals. We drew trees, observed what happens if you put a branch of leaves in a... Continue Reading →
Since we've been learning California history...it's nice to know some of your own family history in California. My husband was taking a group of academy students to a workshop at PUC in Angwin so the kids and I tagged along so I could show the kids some of their history. My grandparents, my parents, my... Continue Reading →
This week was M is for Moon week for Cas. We built the letter M with cuisenaire rods, we read books about the moon from the library, we made the phases of the moon with oreos, we built a rocket ship fort, sketched the moon every night to see how it changed, discovered how far... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 