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Homeschooling, Photo Projects

Our School Day

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We have just started doing All About Spelling Level 1.

It is way to easy for my oldest and not really difficult for my youngest at this time.

We skipped to the middle of the book to start and now I am just asking them to spell a word from the lesson, if they both get it easily then I skip to the next lesson.

Hopefully we will get to some things they do not know soon.

Their grammar is having them do dictation now.

Everytime I so much as paused in our lesson my oldest would pick up his book.

I hated telling him he needed to leave it alone until after school.

It just seems wrong to tell your six year old to stop reading…

Snack time for the boys = me reviewing their math lesson for the day.

We finally broke out a science kit I bought a while ago.

We made a lime battery.

The boys were pretty disappointed that we were not doing the other experiments in the kit that day.

School is done so it is quiet time for the boys and project time for mommy!

I will share what I am making after I finish! I really like how it is turning out and it goes in my newly painted kitchen!

I am using these shots for my 30 Day project.

I will probably change it up a little bit and not focus on including myself in every shot.

I am still trying to think of ways to catch us all in our everyday life though.

Homeschooling, Photo Projects

1st day back!

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My 30 day pic.

Day 6

Teaching my son to read.

Today was our first day back after Christmas break!

The first part of the school day was as follows:

50 States songs on youtube, here and here

The Pledge of Allegiance (I have been trying to do this every school day)

Reading

Writing (we use Writing without Tears)

Grammar (First Language Lessons for the well-trained mind)

Then we take a short break that includes a snack.

2nd half of our school day:

Math (RightStart)

History (we read about Daniel Boone)

Science

We are studying Electricity for science this month.

My MIL got the boys Magic School Bus science kits for Christmas!

I thankfully remembered one of them was on the subject we were doing!

We were just going to check it out today but since the first one was easy we went ahead and did it.

I unfortunately cut the boys hair just last night so it was a little short to be impressive.

Like a good teacher I offered up my own hair in the name of science.

These kits are quickly becoming favorites!

I am thinking I might just have to go ahead and get one for every science subject we cover.

Homeschooling

Vikings!!!

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We are doing Explorers this month and I decided to start us out with Vikings!

We did not take Memorial Day off, instead we took a canoe out and I talked to the boys about exploring, why we would do it, and how.

They also watched some of the History Channels “Great Explorers” that we got from the library.

We learned about Navigation at the same time and with that we read a Max Axiom book about Magnetism.

A book we read that is not pictured is “Asgard Stories Tales from Norse Mythology” that I downloaded for free on my kindle.

We only read one story out of it but I really enjoyed it.

I have always liked mythology and the boys are in love with Thor so it worked out really well for us!

I got the idea for them to draw their own compass from my friend, here.

It really helped the boys remember directions.

I found the instructions for how to make your own compass on one of my favorite sites!

How Stuff Works!

We also used my husband’s Iphone app Sky View to find where the North star would be. (It was not dark enough before the boys bedtime to see it)

To end the week we went for a hike and I brought two compasses for the boys.

They had to find our way in and out and could only tell me where to go using North, South, East, or West.

Or NW,SW,SE,NE, ect…

I had them stop about half way through and pretend they did not have a compass.

They had to tell me how they would get us home using the sun.

It was early morning so it was pretty easy to tell which way was east and west.

Then I asked them what we could use to make there own compass if we needed one in the woods and did not have one.

A frictionless surface(like water).

Something that floats(like bark).

A piece of metal(like a needle).

A magnet.

My son thought we should make one right then and take apart my camera to see if there was a magnet inside!

I told him no.

He said survivorman uses whatever he has to make what he needs…

If we are in a survival situation I might(might) give up my camera.

Maybe.