Gareth has been creating lots of art around the house lately. He often uses the white board that I write our math ‘Problem of the Day’ on: I also find things like this on the board. Gareth is showing his scientific knowledge, drawing different species of dinosaur and putting them into their correct time period [...]
A couple weeks ago the boys and I did some learning about Ancient Egypt, which I blogged about here. One of the activities we did was try to mummify apple slices in different mediums: table salt, epsom salt, baking soda, and a ‘control variable’ apple that was simply left exposed to the air. A week [...]
Last Friday the boys and I headed to Safety City, along with 40-50 other homeschoolers between the ages of 4 and 7. Safety City is a place for kids to learn about pedestrian and road safety. The boys were quite excited as we arrived, as while we do tons of outings, we don’t often meet [...]
The boys had their first soccer night last Tuesday, and both had a super time. (Though Gareth was a little bummed at the end that his team lost their game.) Gareth is on the light blue team this year, and his buddy Daniel is on the same team. Gareth is very happy that he gets [...]
In a previous post I mentioned one of the series of workbooks Daegan has enjoyed the most: Dr. Dooriddles. Here’s a typical riddle from these books, level A2 (grades K-2): I’m found inside pillows, I help keep birds dry; I’m soft to the touch, Birds need me to fly. What am I?____________________________ (answer: feathers) We’ve [...]
The boys and I met up with some homeschoolers on Wednesday at our local nature park, as the temperature climbed into the low 20s C (70s F). The boys told me they had a great time and want to do more homeschool park days. They spent their time doing many things. Writing in the dirt: [...]
Yesterday the boys and I left the workbooks, and did some activities around negative numbers as Daegan has been asking to learn about them. I adapted ideas I found on two very helpful blogs, here and here. I began by writing a problem of the day on our board, leaving Daegan to mull it over: [...]
Gareth is currently enrolled in a “playschool” program one morning a week. The theme of this class—called “A World Down Under”—is oceans. Each day they play games, do a craft, read books, sing songs, etc. related to this theme. Gareth brought home his first craft project from the class recently and he is soooo proud [...]
Here’s what the boys did on April 8th (hover your mouse over the pics for details): Here’s what the boys did today, same corner of the backyard, April 21—just shy of two weeks later than the above snow pics: And you thought where you lived had changeable weather! And no, you don’t have to [...]
Our addition of a “problem of the day” question to our math routine continues to go very well. We had a super discussion about today’s question—the version Daegan created to try to stump Mom required some careful thinking and strategy! Here’s what I put on the board for him, which he immediately took a logical [...]