Over the weekend the boys and I tried out one of the games we have the in house that connect in with our Human Body unit. This Somebody game (most recent version available, see here) was passed on to me from another homeschooler (thanks, Lisa!) whose kids have outgrown it. In this game we built [...]
Yesterday the boys and I did a fun activity tying into our learnings about the human body: we made a model of our blood, based on this activity an acquaintance of mine did with her daughter. I began by asking the boys, “What is blood?” and we attempted to find a reasonable model for it. [...]
Today the boys and I started our Human Body learning, the main science topic they asked to do this year. In my usual style of creating a “unit study” (I am so NOT a planner in this way), we dropped by the library last night and I cleared them out of a shelf of books [...]
Yesterday evening was spent like this: That’s Gareth in the hospital bed distracting himself by watching TV, while big brother amuses himself with various games on the iPad. Gareth’s asthma was bad enough we finally took him in to the Children’s Hospital, something in retrospect we should have done before now. Apparently 6-year-olds can be [...]