I can't believe we just finished our 5th week of school. Wowie, time is zippin'! Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of photos to share, but I still hope you enjoy your peek at our week! In history (Mystery of History), we learned about the Ice Age. I found it interesting to know the Great Lakes used to be glaciers. The boys colored their notebook page, and we also did this fun ice cube activity. Which boy could keep the ice cube on his belly the longest? Well, the answer is: neither! Because Buddy kept swiping them and eating them! sWe also learned about the Sumerians. The boys each built a ziggurat. We'll keep a photo of their creation in their notebooks. We also learned about dinosaurs. Did you know dinosaur means "terrible lizard"? In this photo, the boys are busy coloring dinosaurs that we put together with fasteners. And we learned about the Tower of Babel. I found a printable "Tower of Babel" game online, so we had fun playing that, while listening to a french cd. We worked on our timeline and memory cards, too. AW started a journal this week. He writes for 5 minutes each day. He's been writing squirrel stories. They're really cute, and he really enjoys writing them. AW is continuing to cruise a long with Teaching Textbooks 4. BW is enjoying his Calculadder math book. I actually went ahead and purchased the entire Calcupak this past week. If you'd like your child to master math facts, I highly recommend purchasing this. I spoke with the company on the phone, and they were so kind in answering my questions. It's a Christian company too! If you'd like to check it out, follow this link: Calculpak In science, we started studying birds. Each boy wrote a report on a bird of their choice. AW chose hummingbirds and BW chose puffins. Sequential Spelling 1 continues to be a great fit for AW. I started doing spelling with BW too, mainly to help him get control of not placing capital letters in the middle of words. It's going well! I decided to stop using Rod and Staff grammar. It was a lot of work to type up worksheets; I posted about that in a previous blog post. Last week I ordered First Language Lessons 1-3. I'm excited to receive them in the mail! And here is one of the reasons I enjoy homeschooling- it gives my boys the opportunity to be together and learn together, which makes my heart happy. This photo was taken after we'd finished school. AW was helping BW with reading. Moments to treasure! And here's one last photo, taken this past summer. (I can't believe how much the boys have grown since I took this photo.) We're detectives and have managed to uncover the dates of most of our neighbors birthdays.
We celebrate them with a birthday picture, birthday cupcake and bomb their sidewalk with birthday chalk cheer. Well friends, thanks for tagging along on our journey. I hope to update my "10,000 Reasons" and "Oh, Happy Day!" pages later tonight, so be sure to check them out too. How has your October been? Has anyone seen any snowflakes yet? AW had a soccer game at 8:30 on Saturday morning. It was 21 degrees and WE saw snowflakes. For reals. And it's only mid-October. Shiver.
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Have you ever visited a corn maze? If not, you must! It's one of our favorite fall adventures. We visited Polly's Pumpkin Patch today, and enjoyed 3 corn mazes. The first maze was for children, the second for adults, and the third was a trivia maze. The first two mazes were like scavenger hunts. We had to find certain animals (kid maze) and numbers (adult maze). After finding them, we used a punch to punch our maze card. The trivia maze involved answering questions. Whatever answer we picked, led us to the answer and next question. Super fun!! Bryce and I were the champs last year, however my crown was stolen this year. Mr. Mustard Seed and Ashton won the kid maze, and Bryce and Mr. MM won the adult maze. We did the trivia maze as a family. (Although I got the most correct answers!) We also enjoyed caramel apples, farm animals, and playing around the farm! So, reader, tell us- what are your favorite fall activities?
Thanks for stopping by! A Few Things First...DUDES! You've been reading my blog! THANK YOU!!! I haven't received notification of blog comments in weeks... upon logging into Weebly today, they gave me a "tour" of the new layout. Imagine my surprise when I saw a notification saying I had 27 (TWENTY SEVEN!) awesome comments to approve! **Super excitement!** You've been reading my blog, people!! And not only reading; you've been commenting! It's such an encouragement to know that. *High five. cartwheel. happy dance* Ya'll are *that* awesome! I'm going to look into changes my settings so comments will no longer need my approval. Thank you for being so faithful in following, commenting and encouraging. Love you friendsies! Now, let's get started! Week 2 + 3Let me start by saying, I can't believe we just wrapped up our third week. Really!? How is that possible!? I feel like we just started yesterday (in a really good way!) This school year has been awesome so far! The boys have had such an excitement towards learning, and they love school! Soooo very thankful for their positive attitudes and eagerness towards learning. I absolutely love this photo- I think it captures one of the many reasons I love homeschooling so much. The boys work together, help one another and learn together. This was one of our history projects. We spent some time learning (Bryce) and reviewing (Ashton) the 7 continents by creating our own maps for our notebooks. Ashton's map. BW and his map. We learned about Noah and the flood this week. We also made our own 7 Days of Creation game. Busy working on their games. See Ashton's cute little thinking tongue? ;) It's a super power. (Super Concentration!) Part of BW's game. AW. We are keeping their games in their History Notebooks. Both boys enjoyed playing their games during quiet time. The goal? To line all 7 circles up in the right place. (We numbered them 1-7 on the backside) He did it!! This week we also did our first science experiment. Here are my budding (er, mad?!) scientists! We continue to learn about mammals. This week we learned not all mammals have fur. Experiment 1 was quite simple- we timed ourselves to see if we could hold our breath as long as an aquatic mammal. We also watched a short youtube video on baleen whales. After the video and our experiments, we did some notebooking to document our experiments. Ashton continued cruising through his Teaching Textbooks math. I love how they throw two T/F questions in with each lesson. And BW continues to cruise right along with his math too. He totally LOVES this Calculadder math book I found at a local thrift store. Oh! I almost forgot... here is one of our science projects from last week ... I snipped some stuffed animals up, and then we listed adjectives that describe fur. Here is Ashton's work: Thanks for following along with week 2 + 3!
I need to update my other pages soon, too. I'm excited to share ways God has been at work in my life. I also want to share my vintage kitchen, and some of my other neat-o vintagey treasures. (I found a homemade clipboard from the 1930s today. It. is. AWESOME!) While approving comments today, a few of you mentioned that you have not been receiving my blog updates via email. If you would like to receive them, please enter your email address near the top of the page and hit "subscribe." If you do that, you should receive my posts. (I changed it a few months ago, so you may have missed that change!) Also, if you only enter your email on this page, you will only receive updates about homeschool + general life. If you enter if on "10,000 Reasons," you will receive updates on my faith journey, If you enter it on "Oh, Happy Day!" you will receive thrift store, snailmail and crafty updates! If you enter it on all three, you will receive updates on all three. (And will also receive a free upgrade to my fantastic friend list) Ha. Subscribe away, super friends! :) Happy October! |
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