What We're Doing – Week 10 Links & Ideas

History - Look up words from the history sentence that my littles can't define and write definitions to add to notebook.  I'm thinking expelled, foreigners, isolation, commodore, modernize, etc.Latin - Copy the 4th declension into notebook.English - Create a story and draw a picture using the 4 prepositions.Science - Draw leaf diagrams in … [Read more...]

What We're Doing – Week 9 Links

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...]

What We're Doing – Week 8 Links

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...]

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...]

The View from Here – The Highlights

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...]

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...]