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.