Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
First, we sorted some animal flashcards into invertebrate and vertebrate stacks.Next, using this book for inspiration, we made our own leaf animals - vertebrates specifically. I gotta say, one of my sons was totally into this, the other two more or less helped me make their animals. They all liked drawing faces on their animals though. … [Read more...]
For today's review of fine arts, we worked on perspective this way. First, I drew and colored a basic scenery sketch based on this post. Next, I modified the idea from the post slightly, by having my road veer off to the left and by using one car, instead of two trees. Mainly, because I have a home full of car loving littles. … [Read more...]
After spending our morning with our CC community, we stopped at the local library for a bit. The littles enjoyed some computer time and each picked plenty of books. We came home with quite a good stack! Another CC mom organized a trip for our group to a local family-owned dairy farm. We visited last year and had so much fun, … [Read more...]
For reviewing prepositions this week, I narrated a story in one sentence using our week 5 prepositions and asked my older guys to draw a new part to their picture with each part of the story. First though, I asked my guys to pick an animal they wanted to draw. My oldest, who really loves to draw, picked a squid. He also really loves … [Read more...]
Okay, so we're one cycle late on this field trip to Ellis Island. It was on our short list of places nearby to visit over the summer, but we never quite made it. We kept pushing it back, but still wanted to make it there before it became too cold. So, this past Friday, my husband took the day off and we made a day trip out of it. … [Read more...]
Today's weather was a mix of clouds and sun, but that didn't stop us from enjoying a woodland scavenger hunt with friends at a local park. I taped these woodland scavenger hunt cards to paper sacks and my little explorers were off and running. Sometimes in search of the items on their cards and other times, whacking trees with sticks … [Read more...]
Today we had time for some abstract art that we didn't fit in last week. This is not a new or original idea, but it is a fun one! We put a piece of card stock in a dish with sides, rolled a marble in paint (as seen above), and proceeded to rock the dish around in our hands. This sent the marble rolling around the dish and over the … [Read more...]
Our campus has this week off due to our facility's schedule. At home, we'll be focusing on our other curriculum, reviewing all memory work, and perhaps doing a few projects we didn't get around to yet. But, I know many of you are probably meeting as usual, so I wanted to share my week 5 links anyhow. History … [Read more...]
In our reading today, we learned that a plant cell's membrane is semi-permeable. So, we did a quick science experiment to demonstrate the definition of semi-permeable. My oldest son held a paper towel between two hands while I ran the faucet in our kitchen sink and another son looked to see if the water would pass through the paper … [Read more...]
You may have seen this idea before on Pinterest from various sources. Today, I thought it would be fun to set up a "laser obstacle course" to review our prepositions. It was a hit! First my littles took turns trying to navigate it for fun. Then I called out various prepositions that we're learning and asked them to find a … [Read more...]