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 writing on May 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I gave the girls this list of creative writing ideas to choose from and write a blog page about. Just thought I’d share it in case others were looking for new ideas….
Write a blog entry as a character from a historic fiction book like “Little House on the Prairie” or “Sadie Rose.” Talk about what […]
Posted in Daily log, Goals, PE, plays, social studies, art, math, reading, science, history, writing on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I haven’t posted a HS log lately so I thought I’d jot down some of what we’ve been doing. All the birthdays took up most of last week but a lot of neat stuff has gone on…
Science:
We’ve seen “our” beaver several more times since that first visit and now we slow down the […]
Posted in lesson plans, Preschool, nature, social studies, math, science, writing on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
A mom on one of my homeschool lists asked for help designing a curriculum for her four year old and it got me thinking about what “curriculum” we do here. I thought I’d post it in case it’s helpful for anybody else out there.
The most important thing to remember is that you should not try […]
Posted in cool sites, writing on May 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
Here’s a great list of places to submit children’s writing. We subscribe to “Creative Kids” magazine and it’s very nice. I’ve also seen “New Moon” and would love to add that to our list. I haven’t looked at the sites in depth yet but we’re going to submit a bunch of stuff next week when […]
Posted in Anna, writing on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Anna chose to do her writing assignment on a pamphlet for our town. She changed the name of our town to Blue Eagle, which is what the people originally planned to name it. Here it is…
Blue Eagle
Blue Eagle may be a small town but it’s filled with lots of stuff.
It’s quiet […]
Posted in Victoria, writing on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Victoria chose to write her page on a recipe for a magical food. Here’s her completed page!
FLUORESCENT FIZZ
This food will make your insides ~glow~! Just make it very carefully!! If not done exactly right it will cause untold misery!!!
The ingredients are…
1 cup of oozing slime
1/2 tablespoon of rose petal tea
3 cups of salty sea […]
Posted in writing on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I made this list up for the girls to choose one to write a page about.
Write a letter to yourself from any fictional character from a movie, book or TV show.
Write a tourist pamphlet advertising your town and why people should come visit.
Write new lyrics to a classic song like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
Write a […]
Posted in cool sites, nature, math, writing on Apr 9th, 2008 No Comments »
This fun math site has a number of fun ways to combine poetry and math for April (national poetry month). There are also Earth Day math activities and tons more. Fun!
Posted in Anna, writing on Apr 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Anna wanted me to post some poems that she wrote the other night. Here’s some of her lovely works!
The Little Fairy
little fairy
little fairy
what do you do
when the skies turn from blue to gray
do you sit on a log
dreaming all the day
do you sit on a branch
looking wet
little fairy
little fairy
what do you do
Under the Sea
under the […]
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.