Its Monday again…. Oh, sometimes I really loathe Wednesday’s how about you?? Can you believe its February already??
Today it snowed, and we were booked solid once again… so, it was a school on the go day for Monkey Man.
Monkey Man-
Middle Monkey-
Littlest Monkey-
Another low key day… Just some quick review in Math, Spelling and Grammar…
Public School here is on vacation this week, so we are taking this time to be able to go visit some family that we never get to spend much time with… The kids are excited to go see their cousins!
Hope everyone has a fantastic day!
Tomorrow will be an update on our Salt Crystals… as you can see here…
Today was a laid back day as well. We visited some friends, and my dad… So the kids did a lot of Phys Ed today!
Then we did school in the car, and they finished up some worksheets they had to do!
We took yesterday off, since I wasn’t feeling that well… and daddy was trying to get regular chores done for me so I wouldn’t fall behind. Plus Monkey Man got invited to go spend the night at a friends house.
Today we just went to a 4 hour Science Fair put on by a local College. This was our first year going to it, and we had heard many great things about it.
It didn’t disappoint that is for sure. Monkey Man was still at the friends so he missed it, but the girls and I had a great time. We even invited a friend who was on vacation from Public School.
Here are a few of the things we did….
So here you can see we tried to make a bridge… (not much luck) Then they tried to make a boat out of clay and see how many nickels they could get it in it before it sank. Then we got to check out some bones… Can you tell what that Skeleton is??
This week had been super busy… but we sure did have some fun.
Monday was lots of Valentine’s Day fun! Bowling fun!
Tuesday was messy fun, with lots of glue to make Volcano’s.
Wednesday was more messy fun… First we had a rock lecture, and then we painted Volcano’s.
Thursday was a laid back day at home with the kids… just our normal English, Math, and Spelling.
Friday we started our growing of crystals. To go along with our rock study. Plus our normal Math, English, and then of course our Spelling tests!
That sums up our week. What did you do this week??
It’s Friday!!
Typically… I try to make Friday a pretty laid back day. I mean who doesn’t like an easy Friday right???
Monkey Man did:
Middle Monkey did:
Little Monkey did:
All Monkey’s did:
Here are some photo’s from our experiment… more to come as it progresses!
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
Just a regular day in our school room today! Except the girl’s had Girl Scouts this afternoon.
Monkey Man did:
Middle Monkey did:
Little Monkey did:
All Monkey’s did:
Today we had Co-op in the morning... The kids were pretty excited. Remember the volcano’s we made, that I posted here. While today we got to paint but ran out of time to erupt them. So that is on the agenda for next time.
However, before we could do that, we had a guest speaker. A local museum that doesn’t have heat during the winter (to help keep the costs down, I think they stay closed during winter)came to us. They came to talk about Rocks.. They will be coming in to talk to us over the next few weeks. My kids were pretty excited about that. As rocks are a huge enjoyment in our house.
Here are a few pictures from our morning!
Today we all worked on a project.
We belong to a local Co-op and this semester we are doing Rocks & Mineral’s and Ocean Life. They started with Rocks & Mineral’s. Last week they made Volcano’s from Paper Mache’.
Monkey Man was sick, so we didn’t make it to Co-op meaning that we had to catch up before this week’s meeting.
So today I got brave, and with my friend and her son we made Paper Mache’ volcano’s! (secretly I was excited to do this) It didn’t go to bad. I was rather proud of us. Here are our partly finished Volcano’s… we will be doing more with them tomorrow, so be sure to check back!
This is where I’m going to start simply because I don’t know where else to begin!
Today we did stuff on the go, cause the girl’s had dentist appts. I simply put their work on a clipboard, and we bring it with us. They either do it in the car, or at the appt while waiting.
Monkey Man did:
Middle Monkey did:
Little Monkey did:
One of the great things about Home-schooling is that you doing have to sit in a classroom all day long to get your classes in.
After a long week, of being stuck inside due to sick kids and some really cold weather.. we ventured out to play with some friends.
I’m pretty sure it is safe to say that we got our exercise in today. We went sledding with friends, which you can read more about here. Where you had to walk anywhere from a 1/4 of a mile, to a 1/2 mile to get back up the trail. My legs were like jelly by the end!
What fun we had though!!
As I have mentioned Home-schooling is new to us… and so we have been slowly trying to figure out how to get organized, and function.
Over the last few weeks we have been working on a better and more functional school room.
I wanted to share the pictures of what it now looks like!
Here you can see our big long school table. Oh, how I love the table. Its big enough for us all to sit there… and great for when we sit and do projects. In the background, you can see our white board (great for writing the date, and anything I want them to see for a while) our cubby shelf. Which I personally love! Makes storing things by subject, or kind so much easier! Yes, that is a T.V. you see, which is strictly used for educational purposes only! Then you might notice the desk off to the other side… that is my storage space, and we have a computer on it…for the kids to use, for educational things.
Then I put up a big bookcase, that I use to help me store my curriculum.. Spare folders, paper, and notebooks. See the two baskets.. The green one is our books. So the kids know what they are allowed to read during school time. Then the other basket is to keep our library books in. That way there is no searching for them when its time to return them! (or that is my hope anyway)
There you have our room. I’m very happy with it so far!
Would love to see anyone else’s room, if you want to leave me a link to yours! Always love to get ideas from others!
Hi! We started home-schooling about 4 months ago…. and it has been a pretty big challenge for me. Well, for the first few months anyway!
The best advice I can give to any new Home-schooling parents is…. “Don’t over think it.” I was told this many times, but it didn’t really sink in until lately. I finally realized the more I let things just happen or didn’t try so hard we had much better luck.
I wanted to start this blog… one cause I love to blog! Feel free to stop by my other blog 3 Crazy Monkey’s (here you can read about our crazy life and product reviews).. Secondly, I wanted to write this blog to help keep a journal of our adventure. I want us to be able to look back at when we made the best decision for our family.
With that being said.. here you will see our list of favorite sites, books, and curriculum as we come across them. We will also tell you about some of our days, as well as Field trips we take. Adventures are never dull in this house!
So join us if you would like to know what it is like to just jump into Home-schooling! Or if you want to hear about some of our products, and what we think of them!
