Over the past few weeks, during spring, Daegan took a “Cartoons and Comics” class, which he said he enjoyed very much, despite GREAT frustration some days when we went to pick him up as something hadn’t turned out as he wanted: art can be a challenge for the perfectionistic! Still, it was a good learning [...]
Today was Gareth’s final ocean-themed playschool class, “A World Down Under.” We parents came to pick up the kids a few minutes early, so the kids could perform a little song routine for us. To the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”, we listened to and watched “the fish in the ocean go swim, [...]
Daegan has been on an arts and crafts kick over the past several weeks, though admittedly it is waning as the weather warms and the creepy crawlies in the garden beckon. A few weeks ago he created this dinosaur picture completely on his own—my only involvement was him coming to me with the finished product [...]
As the Homeschool Art class was cancelled this session due to low registration, Daegan has been asking me to do more arts and crafts at home. I saw these ideas for “bingo dauber” art on my friend Alicia’s Magical Childhood blog a while ago, and showed it to the boys today. “Oh, yes, we’re interested!” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My friend Sarah sent me this simple science video: The boys and I gave it a whirl today, with a few variations. If you try this at home, we found it worked better if you put the food colouring closer together, overlapping or even on top of one another. I didn’t do this. Now, add [...]
Yesterday the boys and I read the book Grandfather’s Shape Story (Canada) (US) by Brian Sargent, one of the Rookie Read About Math series. In the book, a grandfather tells his granddaughter a story about a man and a special (magical?) rooster, and uses tangram blocks to make pictures to compliment the story as he goes [...]
Had another quiet day today, as I came down with Daegan’s cold. The boys managed to amuse themselves (and eat all the banana muffins in the house!) while I got a much needed 4-hour nap. Bless them! So not much to post about today, but here’s a small moment I wrote up a couple weeks [...]
I left you to figure out why the even/odd (multiples of 2) triangle showed upside-down triangle patterns (when coloured) in a previous post: Here’s what Daegan and I did to figure it out. We began by investigating what happens when you add two whole numbers. This means you are adding in one of four possible [...]