Our homeschooling and home building story.
This year the Paradise Ice skating rink is Glice. Not our favorite so we drove down to Chico to skate on ice. We had a bunch of friends join us and we had a good time. Ari skated without pushing anything this year and Cas had a better thing to push and was able to push by himself... Continue Reading →
For the random period between Thanksgiving and Christmas we like to ease off on school a bit so there's more time for making presents and participating in the various Christmas activities. We check out lots of Christmas books from the library and pull out our own collection of them. We read our favorites: Tree for Peter and... Continue Reading →
Life's been busy so updates have been scarce. We've transitioned from learning about light and energy to learning about water and mass in science. We're learning about the plagues and exodus and 10 commandments in Bible. We've learned about Egypt a lot, so even though our Bible story is still in Egypt we're taking some time to explore... Continue Reading →
We are the family who loves to do everything! And we weren't having time for everything and were still finishing up homeschool at bedtime...which is stressful and doesn't work...so we had to cut something. I started out cutting the educational videos. That worked. We had time to get everything done...but the kids didn't appreciated it,... Continue Reading →
Besides the big corn maze in Dixon, we like to go to Country Pumpkins to get our pumpkins. It's a lot cheaper and closer than Dixon and it has 2 corn mazes. A small kids one, and a larger one. The kids one is very simple and the kids can run through it on their... Continue Reading →
After Rosh Hashanah comes the Jewish holiday Sukkot or the feast of tabernacles. This holiday comes from the old testament when God told the Israelites to come to the temple once a year and dwell in booths for a week to remember the 40 years they lived in tents wandering in the wilderness. It is... Continue Reading →
I am the leader of our local Adventurer club and Cas is a member. Ari graduated last year so she helps some but she is now a Pathfinder. Every fall, our area has a bike derby for all the Adventurer clubs and Cas wanted to go. Several kids from our club came and got to... Continue Reading →
After Shabbat, our first Jewish feast was Rosh Hashanah. In the Old Testament this was the feast of trumpets. It's the beginning of the Jewish New Year and they're supposed to play the shofar a lot, hence the trumpets. And you've got 10 days until the Day of Atonement so you're supposed to be thinking... Continue Reading →
We've started learning about early Egypt. Kids have made costumes. We've made pyramids out of magna tiles, sticks, and play doh. We've reenacted the unification of Egypt and we're in the process of making 3d maps of the Nile. In science we've played with blocks, set paper on fire with the sun, and made sun... Continue Reading →
We've been having a good time in our homeschool! Moving through studying Genesis, learning about creation and the flood, learning about a cubit and measuring how large Noah's ark was, and comparing creation myths from various cultures. Learning some fundamentals of drawing with lines and ellipses. Playing bells and learning to identify notes, learning french... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 