I'm sure that all of you out there wonder what we REALLY do all day every day. Sometimes I wonder myself! I thought I would start posting here so that I can see what we have accomplished. Of course now that school has started, I have little to no free time to blog, so we will see how trying to post weekly goes.
We love homeschooling and have such a wonderful time. This year we are in a great co-op with so many of our friends. We meet on Thursdays and do most of the English, Science & History projects together. This year for English we are studying Journalism; History - World Geography; and Science - Earth Science. On Fridays the older boys go to our local charter school for some elective classes and I have "kindergarten" with Afton, Kensi and 7 other cute little kids...and their moms. We are truly blessed and I am excited to share it all with you here!
Math - Individual lessons in Saxon; Kaiden - Algebra 1, Nic - 6/5 , Luke - 3, Afton - 1
Geography - Population, Climate Zones
Cooking - wheat bread, homemade mac-n-cheese, homemade ice cream & hot fudge sauce
Science - Astronomy: Stars
Family Reading - For school, we are reading "Dear Mr. Henshaw" & "Daddy Long Legs"; for fun, dad is reading them "Fablehaven 4"
Fieldtrip - On Sat. Sept. 12th we went up to the top of Woodland Hills with several other homeschooling families and had a star party. It was great fun running around on in the tops of the mountains in pitch black looking at stars through the telescopes. We saw Jupiter and 4 of it's moons, the binary star in the handle of the Big Dipper, Polaris, Cassiopeia, the Andromeda Galaxy, too many stars to count and of course the Milky Way. It was a perfect, warm night with no moon. It was great!
Individual Reading -
Dad - "Brisingr" by Christopher Paolini
Mom - "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens & "No doubt about it" by Sheri Dew
Kaiden - "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens
Nic - Ranger's Apprentice 2 "The Burning Bridge"
Luke - Magic Tree House: "Midnight on the Moon"
Afton - Phonics practice readers
They also all do individual Book of Mormon reading and journal writing every day as well as passing off something in scouts or Duty to God/Faith in God for the boys.
1 comment:
I may have to quit reading your blog : ) You're going to make me look really bad! That's an awesome amount of stuff to do. You must be so organized.
I remember that warm, moonless night. I was running in it. Who knew you were up on the mountain having a party : )
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