Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography, science, math on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
I think most people know about FreeRice by now, the cool web site that tests your vocabulary and earns rice that’s donated to the hungry. They’ve expanded and now have categories like chemistry symbols, multiplication, world capitals, foreign languages and more! What a great way to help others and help your kids (or yourself) learn. […]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography on Sep 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The folks behind FreeRice have come up with a fun online geography game that donates clean drinking water to people in need the more you play!
The name of a place is displayed above a map and the object is to click on the map as close to the location of that place as possible. […]
Posted in freebies, geography, Curriculum, history on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Bringing Up Learners is offering a comprehensive world history curriculum free to download. I checked it out and it looks thorough, diverse, interesting and fun. There are fun read-aloud books, poems to memorize, maps, activities, world religions, myths and several history books that are used as spines.
You can even choose whether to download the one […]
Posted in geography, games on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s an addictive little online game where your kids can test their geography knowledge. You can pick a country or do the whole world, including neat things like landmarks. The better you do, the higher up the levels you move. It’s quite fun! Victoria played this afternoon and loved the sarcastic comments it came up […]
Posted in geography, Music on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Our dear friend Polly lives in Scotland. She asked Daryl to teach the kids to sing “Flower of Scotland” since it’s considered one of their national songs and is so beloved.
Daryl printed the words out and we’ve been singing it together in the car. It is a lovely song and it gets stuck in your […]
Posted in cooking/home ec, magical moments, Victoria, pictures, Daily log, geography, Fun on Jun 24th, 2008 3 Comments »
Yesterday was Victoria’s “mom and me” day so Daryl took the other kids for a couple of hours in the afternoon.
She decided she wanted to spend it making cookies, playing Scrambled States of America, and doing a craft. We generally only get an hour so I explained we might not have time for […]
Posted in Daily log, geography, PE, social studies, art, math, holidays, writing on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
A little of what we’ve been up to lately…
Social Studies
Jack, Anna, Victoria and I watched “IMAX: The Eight Greatest Places on Earth” about the Amazon river, Tibet, Greenland and other amazing places. We learned a lot about everything from the rainforest to prayer flags to lemurs.
Anna and I are still reading “Pollyanna” at bedtime, which […]
Posted in Lapbooks, pictures, geography, social studies on Apr 20th, 2008 5 Comments »
We’re finally finished! Victoria did most of the work, with a little help from me and and a few touches by Anna. I love the finished lapbook! There are multiple cardstock pages inserted with sections on art, history, maps, school, food and fun. We even included the slip of paper from the owner of the […]
Posted in geography, social studies on Apr 20th, 2008 No Comments »
We went to a local Ethiopian restaurant on Friday and it led to a wonderful unit study on Ethiopia!
Even though we live in a very rural area, we are lucky to have a diverse group of cultures nearby. A neighboring tiny town has a large Hmong population, another has a high Laotian population, and […]
Posted in geography, Fun on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I came up with a fun way for Anna to learn geography today. I gave her the world’s best book of countries and told her I wanted her to pretend to be my travel agent. After explaining what a travel agent was, I said that I wanted to go someplace different and wanted her to […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.