Week 34: Struggles and Successes
April 24, 2010 by lorrie
Filed under Field Trips, Homeschool Stuff
Ty finished his Reading/English DVDs for Kindergarten on Friday. I was left feeling a little sad that we wouldn’t be seeing Chef Cookie anymore. Some of our best memories of this year have been doing ‘Snack of the Week’ with Chef Cookie. And Ty’s impression of Chef’s “bon appetit!’ is hysterical. We will definitely miss [...]
Week 21: 100 Days of School!
January 23, 2010 by lorrie
Filed under Homeschool Stuff
As of Friday, January 22nd, we have officially completed 100 days of school! I can’t believe that we are almost done with our first year of homeschooling. What an adventure this has turned out to be. On Monday, we had our cousin, Kendall, spend the day with us. Kendall will be going into Kindergarten in [...]
Week 18: Twas the Week Before Christmas…
December 31, 2009 by lorrie
Filed under Homeschool Stuff
…and we were rapidly losing our focus on lessons. Thankfully, we had a field trip to the Imaginarium planned for this week, otherwise, I don’t know that the boys would have hung in there before our Christmas break. As it was, they were bouncing off the walls with excitement. So on Tuesday, we headed over [...]
Week 10: The Study of Life
October 25, 2009 by lorrie
Filed under Field Trips, Homeschool Stuff
One of the activities that inspired our “Animal Unit Study” was the Turtle bread. I ran across this recipe online, and when I saw how cute it was, I immediately started planning for the animal unit study. We took a bit of a shortcut with the recipe, in that, we bought bread dough from the [...]
Week 5: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part I
September 19, 2009 by lorrie
Filed under Field Trips, Homeschool Stuff, Lapbooks
Our fifth week of school was a lot of fun. On Monday, we started a unit study on Johnny Appleseed. This was in addition to our regular curriculum. We started our unit study by reading, The Story of Johnny Appleseed, by Aliki. We then started our Johnny Appleseed notebook. This is just a 3-ring notebook [...]
The Imaginarium
July 7, 2009 by lorrie
Filed under Summer Fun
Aunt Jo Jo and I took the boys the the Imaginarium last week. None of us had been there before, and since the price is pretty reasonable, we decided to load everyone up and take a look at what they had. One of the things Cam had been hounding me about for months, was being [...]
