We started our day with 20 min of Bible Reading from Dad. He read the story of the Rising of Lazarus. The children were really attentive this morning and answered questions well.. :)
This week we'll have a memory verse from Psalm 119: 45 "I have gained perfect freedom by following your teachings."
This afternoons homeschooling session was pleaseant and carefree..
First we did our lesson from Making Math Meaningful. Activity 1-D. We added equal and unequal signs to our worksheets.
Then, we read the first section in the 4th of July Story: The Birthday of Our Country. We made 3 little minibooks for our lapbook. One on "how we celebrate" where we wrote how we celebrated last year. Another with our Memory Verse on the inside. The last on the date of the first birthday of our country (July 4, 1776). Logan finished his copywork page on our memory verse. Natalie choose to do hers later.
Time: 2 hours
Update..
Right before dinner the Husband caught a mud-dauber wasp in our laundry room. Lucky for the wasp we are homeschoolers or it would have been sprayed! :) We put the jar on the table and the kids drew it in their nature notebooks. We also read about the mud dauber and wrote down its genus name. :) Roughly 20 min.
Updated Time for today: 2 hours 20 min.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Friday
Today we finished up our George Washington Study and on a whim I had them throw together a lapbook. I really liked doing the lapbook and the kids did too. I think I will think ahead and do one on The 4th of July Story we are doing next week. This project took about 1 and a half hours to complete. That was school for today. We have Tball tonight and are going to the movies tomorrow. Im thinking of setting up a movie theater field trip. :)
Not bad for throwing them together. :)
Not bad for throwing them together. :)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Wednesday
Not a very exciting homeschool day for us. We have all been tired. We lazed around in the morning. We did get to see a neat Reading Rainbow segment on Pizza that the kids enjoyed.
Natalie and Logan worked a few pages in thier Explode the Code books. While I read from Caps For Sale and Barkley for the babies. Afterwards we read from George Washington, A Childs First Steps to Virtues, and Aesops Fables. The boys were pretty cranky so I sent them off to a nap before church this evening, there are lots of tears. *shrug* Natalie is in her room quietly reading from Romona Age 8.
Tonight I will be leading the Children's Ministry. I plan to talk about how the Old and New Testaments are connected and all are important for our gaining wisdom. The last phrase in John 5:39 says "And these very scriptures testify about me." (amplified version of the bible) That is my focus verse.
Total Estimated Hours: Roughly 3 hours.
Natalie and Logan worked a few pages in thier Explode the Code books. While I read from Caps For Sale and Barkley for the babies. Afterwards we read from George Washington, A Childs First Steps to Virtues, and Aesops Fables. The boys were pretty cranky so I sent them off to a nap before church this evening, there are lots of tears. *shrug* Natalie is in her room quietly reading from Romona Age 8.
Tonight I will be leading the Children's Ministry. I plan to talk about how the Old and New Testaments are connected and all are important for our gaining wisdom. The last phrase in John 5:39 says "And these very scriptures testify about me." (amplified version of the bible) That is my focus verse.
Total Estimated Hours: Roughly 3 hours.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday's Homeschool
We spent the morning outside playing while it was still cool enough for the little ones. Natalie caught two lightning bugs and made a habitat in a plastic cup for them. She tried to turn the cup into a ship and realized that it needed to have even distribution on all sides to float. Before lunch she let them go.. Outdoor Nature Study: 2 hours
After lunch we stayed at the table to try a new math lesson. The babies went down for a nap while Natalie and Logan cut out nearly 26 little stripes for comparing equal and unequal in their math lesson. The lesson took nearly and hour to finish.
Then the children got out their Nature Notebooks and copied a picture of a firefly from The Handbook of Nature Study by Amy Comstock. Natalie let the fireflies go or we'd drawn them from the real life models. Logan named his "Lighty". I had them copy the words Firefly, and Photonus Pyralis in their journals under the pictures. I read from the Handbook of Nature Study about Fireflies. We learned that 10 fireflies in a jar would make as much light as a small flash light, fireflies are actually beetles, and females light in the middle of their bellies and males on the end. Our Nature lesson took about 40 minuets.
A friend from town came over to play so our lessons were cut short. Socialization: 1 hour
Plans for this evening: Updated in Red.
Read from George Washington Check
Write down our vocabulary words from Monday in our notebooks
Natalie word and definition Found to be too difficult. Perhapes in a few weeks we'll try again. For now we just wrote the words an orally memorized the definitions.
Logan just the words He too found this discouraging so we skipped it.
Natalie will read to us from Aesops again The Littles were too distracting so we skipped her reading and I read it too her.
Logan will read from Hand Hand Fingers Thumb Check
We will read from A Childs First Steps to Virtues Check
Time estimate: 1.5 hours
Total Time for Tuesday: Roughly 5 hours.
After lunch we stayed at the table to try a new math lesson. The babies went down for a nap while Natalie and Logan cut out nearly 26 little stripes for comparing equal and unequal in their math lesson. The lesson took nearly and hour to finish.
Then the children got out their Nature Notebooks and copied a picture of a firefly from The Handbook of Nature Study by Amy Comstock. Natalie let the fireflies go or we'd drawn them from the real life models. Logan named his "Lighty". I had them copy the words Firefly, and Photonus Pyralis in their journals under the pictures. I read from the Handbook of Nature Study about Fireflies. We learned that 10 fireflies in a jar would make as much light as a small flash light, fireflies are actually beetles, and females light in the middle of their bellies and males on the end. Our Nature lesson took about 40 minuets.
A friend from town came over to play so our lessons were cut short. Socialization: 1 hour
Plans for this evening: Updated in Red.
Read from George Washington Check
Write down our vocabulary words from Monday in our notebooks
Natalie word and definition Found to be too difficult. Perhapes in a few weeks we'll try again. For now we just wrote the words an orally memorized the definitions.
Logan just the words He too found this discouraging so we skipped it.
Natalie will read to us from Aesops again The Littles were too distracting so we skipped her reading and I read it too her.
Logan will read from Hand Hand Fingers Thumb Check
We will read from A Childs First Steps to Virtues Check
Time estimate: 1.5 hours
Total Time for Tuesday: Roughly 5 hours.
Monday's School
Reading-
Natalie read to us from Aesopes Fable "Beiling the Cat." We also read from the "chearfulness" chapter in A Childs First Steps to Virtues.
Arithmetic-
We counted dogs and trees, and added groups of mice from our readings.
History-
Studied George Washington from the Beautiful Feet book titled George Washington.
Vocabulary-
From our text on George Washington
Serious
Studious
Soldier
Surveyor
Natalie read to us from Aesopes Fable "Beiling the Cat." We also read from the "chearfulness" chapter in A Childs First Steps to Virtues.
Arithmetic-
We counted dogs and trees, and added groups of mice from our readings.
History-
Studied George Washington from the Beautiful Feet book titled George Washington.
Vocabulary-
From our text on George Washington
Serious
Studious
Soldier
Surveyor
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