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 [...]
I’ve mentioned before that Daegan loves puzzles and riddles of all kinds—from Dr. Dooriddles (review forthcoming!) in language arts to kakuro and Math Analogies to chemistry / geography puzzles. They make learning more fun! Both Jim and I were the same way as kids, and as adults we’ve come to believe even more in the [...]
Just a quick post tonight as tomorrow is a very full day. Gareth starts a new ocean-themed playschool class, Daegan has an orthodontist appointment, and then we’ve got our year end meeting with our homeschool facilitator. But I wanted to share something the boys and I have been having fun with lately. A few weeks [...]
Gareth has been “doing homeschool” from a series of Evan Moor workbooks on word families. Here he is hard at work on the “-it family” (bit, sit, fit, etc.): The series we are using is Word Family Stories and Activities; we’re currently about halfway through Level A (Canada) (US). Each word family contains various simple [...]
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 a fairly quiet day today, as Daegan is snuffling through a cold, Gareth’s asthma is acting up (spring is here!) and I am simply needing a break after a very full past few days. We played, we talked, we read, we baked bread and muffins and made soup, and our big adventure of the [...]
Just a quick post tonight, as the whole family has been down the last few days with a nasty stomach bug, and I’ve run out of saved posts to publish! Came across this interesting quote during the ample time I’ve had for lying in bed and reading over the past few days. It conveys much [...]
While not as popular as it’s cousin sudoku at present, kakuro puzzles have been around for years. They are also known by the name “cross sums”, as they are a mathematical version of the crossword puzzle. I remember enjoying them as a kid—and more complicated ones even now as an adult—and thought I’d give it [...]
It’s the time of year when getting enough exercise can be a challenge. Exercise DVDs for kids to the rescue! My two boys very much enjoy the Yoga Kids DVDs (Canada)(US). The other day Gareth asked me if he could borrow my yoga mat, and when I came down to the basement, this is what [...]
I came across this site about the periodic table of the elements, and was quite taken with Worksheet 3, as that kind of puzzle quite engages Daegan. So I thought we’d do a little bit on the periodic table of the elements this morning, before tackling the chemistry/geography puzzle worksheet. We started by watching a [...]