Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Mummy making happened today! As previously mentioned, I have 3 boys and 1 baby girl so there are no barbies to speak of yet in our home. So, we used some random plastic figures we had around the house. The boys picked ones they wouldn't mind saying goodbye to, in case they don't clean up well after the mummification process. In regard … [Read more...]
I liked this video for giving my littles visuals for the size, scale, and some of the mechanics for the seven wonders of the ancient world. We only watched about the first 7 minutes. Let me know if you go further and like what it shares!We played this pyramid builder game yesterday, which they really loved! You make … [Read more...]
Thank you to all who entered the giveaway for the Creation Science for Kids:Biology Study Unit by Homeschool Curriculum Resources! I hope you all have checked out the free sample pages found on their site! If you haven't yet, I think you would appreciate what you'll see there. It's Biblically based, well-written, easy to use, and … [Read more...]
Today we used this jpg file of hieroglyphics to write in our notebooks. After writing his name, my oldest wanted to continue on with his brother's name. He was really impressed with his work and enjoyed it too! Later, he brought his notebook around to Daddy, Mom Mom, and Pop Pop to guess what the hieroglyphics spelled. … [Read more...]
Here are links to some ideas I've found online and plan to use for our week 2 grammar time at home. History - Ten Commandment Hand Commands Ten Commandments MovieGeography/History - Mummifying a Barbie-type dollEnglish - Teaching Prepositions - DIY posterScience … [Read more...]
Mia of Homeschool Curriculum Resources contacted me to share the homeschool science curriculum she has written, because she knew one of her books - Creation Science For Kids: Biology Study Unit - would match up nicely with Classical Conversations Cycle One Science. & it does! The book contains 12 weeks of Biology lessons, about 50 pages … [Read more...]
To review our english grammar memory work, we made a sentence chain. Since prepositions link words in a sentence together, I thought this would be a simple way to review, "What is a preposition?," while connecting the concept to something concrete and literal. I cut strips of paper from card stock and wrote one word on each … [Read more...]
Did you see the announcement on my FB page? CC Connected is free until September 16th! Visit the Classical Conversations page and watch the streaming announcements at the top of the page until you see the one announcing the free use until 9/16; log in DIRECTLY from that announcement in order for it to work for you. If all the options are … [Read more...]
Today after reviewing our timeline, we read the reverse of the first card. We plan to read the back of 1-2 cards a day. We also spontaneously decided to locate the ancient civilizations on our modern day map. That was great fun for all of us! and really helped give us context before we read in The Story of the World. I love … [Read more...]
www.artlessonsforkids.meMany of our week one plans come from ideas I've found online. Here are the links by subject to those ideas --History -- 10 Commandments Hand CommandsScience -- Animal Classification InfoGeography -- Fertile Crescent Lesson Plans, Video & Recipe … [Read more...]