Today I'm sharing a Weekly Wrap-up. Mostly it will include homeschool pictures I've taken throughout the week. Sometimes it might contain affiliate links.
This is my first time linking up with Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers for the Weekly Wrap-up.
For a peek into more families' homeschool days, visit the link-up.
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Want to be the best mom ever? Of course you do! Grab the kids and a couple of rakes and do what comes naturally.....rake a pile of leaves. You can call it life skills class or physical education class or community service if you really feel the need to define it, but we called it plain old fun.
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| A child size rake makes it that much more fun. |
We pulled off the leaf raking in between walks on the cranberry marsh.
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Another super fun outdoor activity is Stomp Rockets. My kids are ROUGH with their toys. This toy has stood up to tons of abuse. Yes, the fins on the rockets are mostly missing, but that hasn't stopped their fun. I like that Joseph gets lots of jumping with this toy. It helps strengthen his leg muscles and loose hips. They also get tons of exercise running to collect the rockets. Again, I could categorize this into a school subject, but I don't. We just have fun first and let the learning come naturally.
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I shared my low tech way of keeping track of preschool activities. This thumbprint spider project was written on one of the notecards. It didn't go quite as planned. The idea was to divide up their paper into 10 sections. Then make black thumbprints in each section according to the number in that section.
1 = 1 thumbprint
2= 2 thumbprints
etc.
That went pretty well. Joe loved dipping his thumb in the paint. Once their prints dried, I wanted them to pen 8 legs on each thumbprint making it a spider. Peter gave it a try, but it was too much to stay on task for all those spiders.
While waiting for the prints to dry, we spent time with the Animal Encyclopedia (favorite animal book ever - the cover has been torn off more times than I can count) reading about spiders.
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This year Nick and Amber have been working through Focus on High School Chemistry.
It's geared for mixed level highschoolers, which makes it perfect for the homeschool setting. The chapters are broken into manageable sections making it easy enough to complete a chapter and questions in 1 week. Then after correcting the review questions the next week, they complete the lab. The lab manual is laid out well, and they're doing a fine job completing the labs. Today's lab #3 has been the most fun; they finally felt like they were doing real chemistry - splitting H2O into O2 and H2.
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| Here's the basic setup for splitting H2O. |
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| Look at those smiles as they write up their results. |
It's been a full week, but what week isn't full? Anything you want to share about your week? Share in the comments.
