Cycle Two – Week Twenty-One

History - I love coupling the history sentence cards from And Here We Go with either the history sentence picture page from Homeschooling with a Classical Twist or the blank illustration page from Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood.  My littles love the pictures from the sentence cards and the pictures inspire their drawings.    Plus the cards … [Read more...]

How It's Going – Week 21

To review our week 21 science sentence, we located each of the 5 major circles of latitude on our globe.  Then we drew the 5 major circles on oranges while reciting them out loud.  My guys loved drawing on the oranges, but my little miss was completely focused on us finishing so she could eat one.  So, what was at first our review … [Read more...]

The View From Here – Watching Them Learn

First we watched the video about the associative law of addition, then I demonstrated it with our plastic math animals.  My oldest understood it quickly (really, he's the only one who should) and asked to demonstrate it with their stuffies.  Then we watched a second video (boy, were they excited!).  This one about linking verbs. I … [Read more...]