Week 8

Well, we're definitely hearing some cacophony; BUT, the kiddos are doing great learning about the tin whistle.

I was totally grossed out by the owl pellets but we dove right in and saw some interesting things:)

A fun project at CC class with corn and beans.

Week 7

Don't have much to show for this week.  Doc is so excited to start music and I am so excited that CC puts great emphasis on theory.  Here is a fun worksheet I found to practice at home.

Studying reproduction this week involved life cycles of different animals and a little show about sea anemones.  The kids made these fun projects last year and I'm glad I saved them.

Weeks 5/6 and a little bit of how I organize

SCIENCE:

Adding more to her Classification lapbook.  I printed bw images of the major groups of invertebrates then she cut, colored, and pasted them on the left side.  

PHONICS

Letter 'T'.  These kids love to paint.  Changed it up a little bit on them and had them use sponges and thread spools in addition to brushes.  It was fun.

Of course, my Superhero had to paint a batman on his page even though it doesn't begin with 'T'.  Can't argue with the boy:)

SCIENCE:

Find the Invertebrate worksheet

Earthworm Observation

Materials

HISTORY:

We studied a little about the Roman Empire.  The kids enjoyed playing with their Roman Soldier paper doll

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/siteactivities/romandress.pdf

Of course Doc has to play 'doll' with it:)

ORGANIZATION:

This is how I function every week (honestly, it doesn't always go according to plan but it's nice to have the plan).

Nice folder pockets for worksheets and coloring pages

BABY SCHOOL:

Week 4 (Didn't have time to write a lot)

HISTORY:

7 Wonders of the Ancient World

 We (all three of us) really enjoyed studying the 7 wonders of the Ancient World.  Doc worked on her lapbook.  During the summer, the kids attended Babylon themed VBS.  One of the crafts was making the Hanging Gardens.  I saved it knowing that I could use it again this week.  They planted their seeds and watered them.  They're starting to sprout now and it's kinda neat to see.

 

MATH:

I was pleasantly surprised that Doc did most of this sheet by herself.  Glad she's getting the hang of it because it allows me a little time with Superhero.

TIMELINE:

It's always helpful to have a visual; although, I like to have her be able to learn things sometimes without flashy aids.  After lining them up, she ended up with 4 rows of 7.  We happened to be memorizing skip counting by 7's this week so this was also a visual for that.  Neat how that worked out.

SCIENCE:

Parts of a Plant Cell

GEOGRAPHY:

Geography blobs (Love this post)

TOT SCHOOL

Letter 'K'

Week 3

HISTORY

I can't find any pics for our study of Ancient Greece but this week was fun.  Doc worked on a lapbook which included a map, a mini book of Greek gods and goddesses from the history sentence, and a section on Aesop.  We loved reading some of Aesop's Fables.    This preK pack has lots of great activities.  Our favorite was the reenactment of the Tortoise and the Hare.  I read them the story and they used the figures to tell the story.  Then, I found a Disney video of it.

MATH

Our favorite worksheets.  She's already getting the flow and starting to do some of it without me guiding her:)

SCIENCE

Something fun we did to end our study of the animal cell was that we made a pizza.  When my DH came home he was pleasantly surprised to hear words like 'cytoplasm', 'mitochondria', etc.  

PHONICS:

They learned about the letter 'M' this week.  I decided to give them a little 'homework' every week.  At the end of the week, they present things that they've found around the house that begins with the letter of the week.  I give them each a bowl and they have to say the name of each item, letter it begins with, and the sound that letter makes.  They have really enjoyed doing their presentations.

M is for Monkey

M is for Money

M is for Mail

What should have been week 3...

Well, Sunday evening, instead of reviewing teaching notes and info for the upcoming school week (week 33 of CC), I was lying in bed watching Hurricane Isaac slowly veering our direction.  By this point, a mandatory evacuation was issued for our parish and so we began to gather our belongings to head out the next day.  My in-laws offered to have us and we took them up on that offer.  While it normally takes us 3 hours to get there, we were expected the worse - evacuation traffic.  We would pleasantly find out the next day that traffic wasn't an issue.

Thankfully, I had organized our filing cabinet during the summer and so getting all our important papers together was easy.  I emptied my courier cabinet hoping my china would be safe on my table cushioned with blankets.

Next, school books.  I know we would possibly be going for no less than 4 days.  No doubt, we were going to do school.  I wanted to keep a little normalcy for my kids.  I loaded up my Utility Tote with books, art supplies, maps, and binders.  It was quite the load:)

Since we weren't going to have CC that week I focused more on her reading, writing, and math; although, we briefly talked about Ancient Greece.  There favorite thing to do for History/Lit was listen, watch, and re-enact Aesop's Fable 'The Tortoise and the Hare'.

We were ready to be home by the following Sat.  Thankfully we had power in our house that day so we headed home.  We are thankful that house only had minor damage to the corner of the house as a result of a fallen tree limb.  No leakage so that was good.

Week 2

We had a great second week of school.  I am amazed at how much information Doc has memorized.  She loves the songs and motions.  Even Superhero likes the fact that he knows his timeline from Creation to China's Shang Dynasty.  It's kinda cute.

So here are some pictures of what we did this week:

The letter of the week was 'B'.  I decide what letter based on which section Doc is in her book, Get Ready for the Code.  There are about 10 pages per letter so it works well.  Here are some things we did to reinforce that letter:

B is for Batman

B is for Boy holding a Broom

B is for Boy in a Boat

Here are the books we read.  The bottom left is 'Boy of the Pyramids'.  I actually read this one, not the kids.  I think it will be a great book for them when they're a little older.  I enjoyed it.  Their favorite was 'The Day of Ahmed's Secret' - great story.  They really enjoyed the books about Ancient Egypt as well.

History

Doc finished her 10 Commandments craft and reviewed all of them.  I then used the week to study Ancient Egypt.  The kids had a blast.

She loved working on her lapbook

Where in the world was Ancient Egypt?

I also let them watch this video.  They were very interested and had lots of questions.

Science

She colored a 5 Kingdoms coloring page.

Math

She is loving these skip counting mazes.  I just let her mark up to x12.

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