Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
image - rockawayrecycling.comOur campus is off tomorrow for the Presidents' Day holiday, but we're going to keep going with our normal work to allow for some other days we need off soon. I'm also throwing these ideas together totally last minute, but they are so easy that you (and I!) can just make them happen easily tomorrow or any day this … [Read more...]
theperiodicfable.files.wordpress.comHistory - Watch this video about the Mexican Revolution. (UPDATE: This link appears to not be working right now. Not sure why? I'm leaving it here in hopes that it will work again. It was good! In the meanwhile, we'll be reading about the Mexican Revolution in Story of the World V3 … [Read more...]
So, this guy was getting very frustrated during math. He fussed a bit. He wanted to quit. True story - sometimes I want to fuss about and quit too. Sometimes I do fuss about and quit. In this moment, I encouraged him to pause, reevaluate the situation, and keep trying - to give his best. I told him even if it's … [Read more...]
Our family, along with many other CC families from our campus, traveled into Philadelphia (ahead of the snow storm headed our way!) to visit the UPenn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. We started our visit with a class, the Pharaoh Fashion Show, led by Jen. We learned so many neat things about pharaohs. Jen was great at … [Read more...]
Image - http://classicalconversationsathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/flag13colonies-300x216.jpgHistory - Read about the history of the Anasazi people here and here. Use strips made from paper bags to weave like the Anasazi did. & Add another place to visit to our list of ideas as we plan to visit 50 states before they … [Read more...]
Can you tell what we're about to do based on the items pictured above? Okay, I'll give you a hint! It's for our week 16 history sentence. Does that help? I'm sure some of you have guessed by now, but for the rest, we're playing our version of the Mayan ball game called Pok-a-Tok. So, (as per our usual) for us that meant 2 … [Read more...]
The valentine fun has begun at our home! On our school room table, I've set out some craft supplies so love notes can be made anytime. I plan to rotate the craft supplies every few days - glitter glue, doilies, watercolors, etc., to keep it interesting.Each morning the mailbox holds a different valentine scripture card, which I printed from … [Read more...]
http://frmarkdwhite.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/st-matthew/History - Watch this 5 minute video about the Mound Builders. Ask my children to recount something they learned during the video which I can then transcribe for them on journal paper. If your children are older, you might like to complete this reading and worksheet.Add the … [Read more...]
I have been desperately wanting to add in more reading time to our days, but I've often found the time too short. Well, today, with all of our schooling have-to-dos checked off for the week, we (I) released some of our want-to-dos from the list in order to read (& snuggle!) more. Those want-do-dos were our fine art project for home … [Read more...]
My guys were SO excited when I pulled out the google map of our neighborhood to complete our navigation activity. From the word GO!, they were all in. And it needs to be said that they excelled at this activity only because of skills they've either inherited or learned from their dad. & I'm so glad!We ran around the neighborhood … [Read more...]