Posted in Jack, Anna, Lapbooks, Victoria, Daily log, science, art, social studies, writing on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, the lapbook thing has taken over around here. Victoria is still working on her Amelia Earhart book and gardening book, but we’re all working on one about the Freedom Quilt debate and she’s doing much of the work on that one. She’s writing up a pro and con section for it right […]
Posted in Jack, Victoria, Anna, vocabulary, Lapbooks, Daily log, social studies, math, reading, history, art, writing on Mar 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Just logging for our records….
Victoria~
Has been doing 10 minute math book pages for fun
Started researching freedom quilts and the underground railroad with Daddy
Still working on Amelia Earhardt lapbook (vocabulary, timeline, more)
Japanese class
Made paper quilts in traditional styles from construction paper shapes
Dyed eggs with a variety of dye techniques
Reading a variety of children’s magazines
Preparing interview […]
Posted in computer & programs, Victoria, art, writing on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Victoria asked me today if she could use the computer to make a letter for a pen pal she hadn’t written to in a long time. I said sure and she created it today. I told her where I kept our photos in the computer and she used NeoPaint and ACDSee to cut and paste, […]
Posted in Victoria, cool sites, geography, Jack, Anna, Japanese, PE, Daily log, social studies, math, writing, reading, science, art, history, Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to lately in various subjects….
Literature–
Reading “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” together
Reading classic poetry to Jack and Anna at bedtime
Victoria just finished a novel (can’t remember which one) and has been reading old magazines.
We’ve been reading lots of books to Jack.
Daryl is reading another Sadie Rose novel to Anna.
Anna […]
Posted in nature, lesson plans, art, science, math, writing on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
ARG! I just spent an hour gathering all my links and plans for the week, clicked on publish, and had the site go down as it was sending. When it came back some minutes later, only half of my original draft and the links remained. I’m going to […]
I came downstairs this afternoon and found Victoria wearing round blue glasses and playing “college teacher” with Jack and Anna. She had them at the dining room table, filling out homework pages. I came back a little while later and was told that she’d given Annalee a “pop quiz” and she had to […]
Posted in geography, Victoria, Jack, Anna, Daily log, art, math, reading, science, history, writing on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
The latest for the kids….
Did 6 1/2 pages of math yesterday about fractions– reducing, adding, finding the GCF, etc. (Victoria, with Anna listening and trying to rush to answer questions first and annoy her sister! LOL)
Played the Gold Rush Game several times with the family. It covers lots of geography and history– not just of […]
Posted in Victoria, Funnies, writing on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
by Victoria
Me: So Worm, what’s it like down there?
Worm: Down where?
Me: You know the dirt.
Worm: Oh yeah. I dunno.
Me: Huh?
Worm: I don’t have eyes!!
Me: Sorry.
Worm: OK
Me: Bye!
Worm: See ya. I hafta go eat compost anyway.
Posted in Anna, history, writing on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
By Annalee
Pioneers are very cool. You just need to listen. Pioneers could live with only dolls and they didn’t care. So history can be fun too. You may not think that learning is fun so you can try playing some games like numbers. You cut up paper and put numbers going up to nine. Then […]
Posted in Anna, reading, writing on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
By Annalee
The gold rush was gold found at mines. It was called the gold rush because so many people came. There was more than one gold rush. In 1849 they went to California. In 1828 they went to Dahlonega, North Carolina. They came back in 1848. Miners came from […]
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.