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Homeschool 2021, April 27-30 (Week 32)

Each of us is assigned a book to read this month, all relating to Asia. I read Other Words for Home, about a Syrian girl who moves to America Eliza is reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Japanese girl after the bomb in Hiroshima Sam is reading The Year of the Dog, A Chinese-American girl finding her self Ally is reading Iqbal, brave Pakistani boy who fought for children's labor rights We started out this Asian adventure with a stop to the Evergreen Library. We love books. Also we are back at trying to get our "steps" in each day now that the weather is better. We walked to Richmond Hill and back. We began our middle eastern studies with youtube videos about the geography of the region, the political history of the region (which is complicated!) and a video summarizing Islam and the Muslim faith. Super interesting stuff. Then we read about two brave Pakistani children, Malala Yousafzi and Iqbal. Wednesday we learned about Jordan and then read one of our ...

Homeschool 2021 February 1-5

MONDAY, Feb 1 Eliza practicing her sign language alphabet. Sam finished her entire math book. I was proud. She is showing her face of how she feels about math. Not her favorite! Benson's math book today. Also demonstrating the letter X in sign language. He wrote x's and cut them out. And made letter x with magnet balls and sticks. He also practiced counting and writing the numerals to 10. We read some more in the Mouse and the Motorcycle and did a lesson from BraveWriter about using quotation marks in a sentence. Eliza already knew that, but it was good lesson for Sam. They all came to Costco and Trader Joe's. We made a list ahead of time and I told them if it wasn't on our list before we left they couldn't ask for it at the store. That helped them channel their gimmies. They were great helpers though and especially polite to the workers which I was glad for. We also learned introduced Northern Europe/Nordic Countries. And learned a little bit about De...

Week 12 Homeschool 2020

Today was a snow day for the rest of the county, but homeschoolers don't have to worry about icy roads so we were business as usual around here (after playing in the snow for a long time this morning...) Science we continued our geology unit with sedimentary rocks. We did some demos about sediment and how sand and rocks pack together over time. My fav part of the lesson was finding an artists that found sands from different parts of the world and took photos under microscope. So beautiful! We related to how when pioneers were building the salt lake temple they had to stop after 5 years working on the foundation because the sandstone was not holding up the granite walls. So they had to redo the foundation with granite. I shared how I had a similar experience with my testimony when I got older and couldn't just rely on believing what everyone else says is true. I had to build a solid granite foundation by studying the word of God on my own. ...

Frequently Asked Questions About Homeschooling

Frequently Asked Questions About HOMESCHOOLING I can’t even get my kids to do their homework at night. How in the world can you teach your own kids? It is difficult to compare the “homework” experience to the “homeschool” experience. You are getting your kids at the end of their day when they are exhausted and so are you. You are trying to help them with concepts that their teachers may have taught them differently than you would. When you homeschool, you set your own schedule. You work with your children when they are fresh and have energy and you still have patience. It takes a while, but you eventually establish a working relationship with your child. It helps when you are familiar with their course work and you can easily answer questions that they may have without competing with what another teacher may have taught them. It may seem impossible, understandably. However, it can be very rewarding. How do I teach...

Homeschool 2021 January 11-15

We're baaaaack. We had a much needed holiday break. And then an even more needed vacation away from this place to Houston. Since the little kids hadn't gone to visit anyone for over a year they were getting a little twitchy and pretty much hated each other. But, like a glitchy computer, after a reset all is well. Benson loves me. He drew this for me after being naughty as an apology. Benson's cute primary leaders mailed him this pictured and he colored it so nicely. He doesn't usually color color pages, he likes to draw his own stuff, so I didn't know he had it in him. He said, "Yeah. I'm a painter just like my grandpa." He has graduated from babyhood to being a dish unloader now that he is so grown up. He and I do it together every morning and everyone loads dishes now throughout the day. Its working very well. I taught a primary lesson on Sunday and Ben and Sam rounded up the stuffies so they could have a full class to participate. It wa...

Homeschool 2021, March 8-12

At Eliza's request we took our Global studies to Greece. She has been reading the Percy Jackson books and loves Greek Mythology, so next stop on our world tour... Greece. Began reading D'Aulaire's Greek Myths. We took a mulitiple choice test on what we read. Both girls got everything right and they were proud. Good reading comprehension. We learned about Greek Roots and how to use a dictionary and thesaurus, also what an antonym and synonym are. Ally emerges from her independent school cave every now and then to try to make new treats. Wednesday was Lunch Lady Brownies and Thursday was Churros. She's a really good baker. For Math this week I was able to get out some of our manipulatives. Benson's counting is getting a lot more accurate. He has mastered one to one counting and counting in sequence. Eliza is learning about comparing fractions. Sam is learning number sense through puzzles. We got to learn about the Greek slave and story teller Aesop and read a bunch o...

Homeschool 2021, March 15-19

Ode to a Grecian Urn... We found this fun activity online where you roll a dice to decide what graphic elements to use to design a grecian urn. We continued our Maturation unit for science learning both the female and male reproductive systems. I was proud of myself for teaching it all with a straight face in matter of fact tones. When I probably was giggling and or blushing inside at the vocab I was using. Finding out what is more common, flipping Heads or Tails, as we played a Greek math game. Snow tunnel construction for recess. The Chartrand family came to stay while their dad got a Kidney Transplant. We learned a lot about Kidneys! Learning to make apple pie from Claire, the chef. The girls created and created with boxes and paper. This was an entire road system they made in the living room with lanes and stoplights and everything for the remote control American Girl car and the Batmobile. The septic system got clogged one day so we went and hung out at the church for ...

Homeschool 2021, April 19-23 (week 31)

We made our game plan for attacking Asia, well not attacking, but gently approaching. haha. Sam is going to do a report on Turkey and Eliza on N. Korea. As those were two countries they were interested in but we would not have time to spend a lot of time on.

Homeschool Philosophy- Unit Study

A unit study, also called thematic units or integrated studies, incorporates many subjects into an in depth study of one main topic or theme. Rather than studying six or seven unrelated subjects, a unit study will bring many subjects together to enable the student to gain a deeper understanding. For example, while studying an era in history, one could study the types of art, music, and literature from that time period. Or, perhaps a younger child might spend a month studying butterflies by reading and writing about butterflies, doing art projects, creating a butterfly garden for scientific observation and spelling words related to their findings. Strengths of the "Unit Study" approach: Children of all ages can learn together and share what they are learning with one another. A child is not limited in the depth of learning in a particular subject. They can delve as deeply as their intere...

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