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Homeschooling

My Days ~School

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We have now finished the abridged version of Sherlock Holmes and have moved on to Captains Courageous.

The boys were supposed to do patterns for their math but were not quite grasping it so I took a page from my friend and used M&M’s.

I really wanted M&M’s also…

Working on their numbers with rightstart math.

Last week we were learning about Leonardo Da Vinci.

I had several books about him from the library but most were too dry.

We looked at the pictures in some of them and then I read them “Who Stole the Mona Lisa”.

It was a great way to introduce him to the boys!

I love history so I love to teach it to the boys.

At this age though it is less about facts and more about an introduction.

On the left in the above pic is a replica of Da Vinci’s paddle boat.

I bought it from Hobby Lobby.

We put it together at the end of the week.

The boys really liked putting it together!

It did not say it was made for water but I figured they would get a lot more out if they got to see it work.

In the book “Who Stole the Mona Lisa” they talk about the paddle boat and the boys went on their first paddle boat ride a couple weeks ago!

I love it when things fall into place like that!

This boy was better at sinking it…

Then I had to put a stop to them trying to sink it with rocks.

Boys…

My Family, Photo Projects

Going to miss this

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My posts might be up a little later then normal. I am trying to get into the swing of a new school year.

I do not handle changes to my schedule(if you can call it that) very well.

I am going to miss Survivormen in my backyard.

Camps and forts.

Little boys seeing a gun in everything.

“Don’t worry little lady, I will get those varmits.”

Okay, he did not say that…

They were more into hunting down the new puppy that happened into our yard.

Poor puppy.

Don’t worry, she seems to like their antics for the most part.

DIY/Crafts

Superhero Transfer

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I keep seeing projects on transferring a picture to a canvas or a board.

I thought the boys might like a superhero spin on it.

I mostly followed this tutorial.

First the boys painted their boards(I just used what we had laying around).

The tutorial suggest using Acrylic paint dabbers because they are more chalky but I just used the regular kind because that is what we had on hand.

Then they laid the superhero picture (I just printed free coloring book pages online) of their choice on the wet paint.

Then comes the worst part when you are two little boys, waiting for it to dry.

It finally dried so then we sprayed them with a little bit of water and the boys started rubbing the paper away.

I was really sceptical that this would work but it did!

Superman turned out better then Spiderman.

I think it was because the Superman had thicker lines and my son painted his a lighter color.

We used Mod Podge to give it a little more personal touch.

Of course my son would write the C upside down when I cannot erase it…

Next time I think I will paint the mod podge over the whole thing so it all looks the same but my boys were really happy with them.

I do not do many crafts with my boys because I find it extremely stressful!

They are not careful at all and do not want to put much work into it.

So most of the time it takes an hour to set it up, and hour to clean up, and my boys only want to craft for about ten minutes.

How do you handle craft time craziness?

I guess I could line my whole house with newspaper and then just tear it off and throw it away…