Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
History - Did anyone else get a paperback version of this Confucius book from Chick-Fil-A in their littles' meal? I can't remember exactly when we got it, but we have one & plan to read it this week!Science - Parts of a Plant Worksheets free, printable, choose your own!- Find a plant to dissect after going on … [Read more...]
History - read The Story of Little Babaji, the story of Mohandas Gandhi and What Should I Make?Science - Monocot, Dicot, and Conifers printable for discussion or copy work- watch the Magic School Bus Goes to Seed Video Geography - create our own DIY Blue & White Ming Plates. If we don't … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
Science - Animal Classification Game Vertebrate Activity … [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...]
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...]
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...]