The boys and I did some shopping this morning, trying to get it out of the way before the regular school kids are out for teacher’s convention (tomorrow and Friday) and Family Day (Monday). Our first stop was Indigo Books, where Daegan used the last bit of his birthday gift card (from last June!) to [...]
I only recently found out that to celebrate the Olympics, the City of Calgary is offering a variety of coupons on their website for free admission to swimming and fitness centres. They’re good through the end of the February. And remember, to quote The Happiness Project blog (one of my favourite sites): “Exercise for sanity, [...]
Last week I was at the library doing some homeschool with Daegan while Gareth was at his Sportball class—you’ve never seen a 7-year-old work so efficiently, knowing that if he dawdles, there will be no time left for browsing dinosaur books! On the sale table I found this awesome resource, published in 2006: The first [...]
We had a pretty good weekend. My parents were in town for a conference/meeting, and my Dad came for a visit on Saturday afternoon. It had been a while since he’d seen the boys, so it was nice to catch up. Earlier on Saturday the boys each had their drama class as well. This morning [...]
On Monday night Jim and the boys put together this tin can robot kit that we’d bought for the boys ages ago (and hidden in the closet, and promptly forgotten about!). Here’s the finished product. I quite like how the opening of the rootbeer can looks like the robot’s mouth: Jim said it was quite [...]
Daegan has been working from the Draw Write Now series of books, to learn both his lower case letters (one of his goals for the year—that HE picked) and to further improve his drawing skills, which, truth be told, already surpass my own. Draw Write Now is a series of drawings on different themes (barnyard [...]
Have you heard the news? The BBC and the British Museum have teamed up to bring us an amazing interactive site (and homeschool resource!): A History of the World—telling a history of our world with objects. There’s a ton of material here to explore. What a wonderful way to make history come alive! Its a [...]
Daegan uses Math U See as the core, or ‘spine’ of his math learning, and we use other books and materials, flashcards, play games, he helps cook, etc. Today we started a new resource, in keeping with my focus on thinking skills: _Math Analogies_ beginner workbook, from the Critical Thinking Company: It was a huge [...]