Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
At our CC campus today, we dissected owl pellets. Have y'all done this already? We found it very cool and also pretty gross. My boy and his dissecting partner were very excited to find a skull of {we think} a small bird. Plus 14 other small bones!At home, my biggest little happened to be reading The Imagination Station … [Read more...]
Anyone else use a chalkboard in their school space? Anyone else's look like this? The chalk buildup was out of control on mine, making it harder for my little scholars to read the chalkboard. Then, I remembered a random pointer I had read somewhere quite a while back (I believe before Pinterest - gasp!). To use soda to clean your … [Read more...]
Our family was blessed to spend time traveling and with family this Thanksgiving - two of our favorite things! We're excited to spend even more time over the upcoming holiday season enjoying those two things again.However, in all our celebrating, we don't want to lose all the things we've worked hard to memorize over these first several weeks. … [Read more...]
Just over a week before Thanksgiving and I'm preparing to use Family Life's ThanksLiving Treasures, a little book of biblically based lessons on thankfulness centering around the pilgrims' journey to the first Thanksgiving. It comes with 4 small symbols and 6 postcard sized reproductions of historical paintings to accompany the lessons. … [Read more...]
History - Copy the history sentence and place in notebook.Latin - Use handwritten flashcards to line up and sort 5th declension noun endings. Make flashcards for previous weeks to also review in this way.English - Littles' Choice! --- They can choose their favorite method of review from the methods we've used over the last 10 weeks -- copy … [Read more...]
History - Read about Constantine together. Ask littles to tell me something they learned during this reading, which I will then transcribe for them. We will add this to their notebooks.Latin - Using handwritten notecards, put the 5th declension latin noun endings in order. English - Create a story using all prepositions and hand … [Read more...]
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...]
This past Friday, our family visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art with several other families from our CC Community. I think this was the first visit to the art museum for most, if not all, of our littles. The parents were brave and the littles were amazing! The museum is just beautiful inside & is in such a cool … [Read more...]
As I've already shared with you, my family will be conducting an election on Tuesday to determine what we'll be eating for dinner. I've created this ballot to use for our family's voting and this blank ballot for your family's dinner voting. Oh & I'm making sure we do vote secretly, because I'd hate for undue influence to … [Read more...]
Fresh from one last bath before losing power, the littles are super excited to camp out in the basement during Hurricane Sandy. Me prepping sewing projects by lantern light during our loss of power. Group teaching on the chalkboard has been more of a regular occurrence this year resulting in only little nubs of chalk remaining in my … [Read more...]