What We're Doing – Week 7 Links

English - Preposition Song Video and Preposition Motions - Slowed Down & by WeekGeography - (free! printable!) Indus River Valley Flashcards with Photos- Indus River Valley Civilization Info Fine Arts - (free! printable!) Music Theory NotebookWell, here in the Northeast, we're hunkering down in anticipation of … [Read more...]

Vertebrates in Fall

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...]

Week Five – Perspective Art

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...]

Week Five – Prepositions

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...]

Week Four – Abstract Art

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...]

What We're Doing – Week Five Links

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...]

Week Four – Plant Cell

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...]

Week Four – Reviewing Prepositions

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...]

Week Three – Animal Cell Diagram

First, each of my littles sketched out a basic animal cell diagram from a picture I had already drawn for them.  I had my oldest also label his with the names of each part.  While they were working, I talked to them about the jobs of each part of the animal cell.  Next, they took various colors of play-doh and filled in the parts of … [Read more...]