TGIF.

Woo, Friday. Not that it means anything to us really lol, there’s just something symbolic about Friday that makes one go, “AHH,” and let their hair down or something like that.

To play a little catch-up, Wednesday was “Animal Communication Day. Dyl drew me a picture of the doggies at her grandma’s house communication with her, with little squiggly lines to illustrate that they were wagging their tails, hee. We have a new kitten, so they then spent the rest of the day letting me know what the kitten was telling us. Anything from, “She needs to go pee-pee mom!” to “I think she’s saying she wants some marshmallows.” :p Miss Suzie on Sid sang a song about animal communication and there was a short skit about beees and Dyl totally went off on this bee tangent, how do bees communicate and why do they have wings and do they sting you and do bees make honey and HOW HOW HOW? lol, sooo we did a little bit of internet research, found a cute game on boowakwala.com (that i cannot find again for the life of me) in which you controlled the little bee, flew him over to a flower and it showed him sucking up the nectar, in which he became a big fat bee (hee) and then you flew him back to the hive and let him fill up the honey comb. The kids GREATLY enjoyed it and laughed loudly and obnoxiously every time the bee got all fat lol. We had to go grocery shopping later, so I showed them all the different kinds of honey and the different flowers they came from and we bought a small jar so they could taste it at home. One didn’t like it, the other did. As per usual.

Yesterday was “The Big Bird’s Nest.” This week was totally fun because of all the outisde-ness we got to have, and the weather was pretty awesome, so that helped a lot. Warm, but not omgsohot. They went outside and found leaves and twigs and we made little nests on paper with lots and lots and lots and lots..and lots of glue.

From SEPT09

Daddy was off work yesterday so we didn’t get much done, but we did get a little prize in the afternoon from a co-worker.

From SEPT09

So there was a lot of that too. :p

Today’s review day and clean up your room day. And a make-up for not reading enough yesterday day. And when we went grocery shopping yesterday I let them pick out a cake and frosting and a couple of things they want to put on top of the cake, so if they clean their room up, later we’re going to make confetti cake with pink icing, sprinkles and marshmallows. Oye.

just keep rolling.

Its Earth Day!

Okay, so its not Earth Day technically, but Earth Day can be everyday – especially when Sid the Science kid is running re-runs and saying its Earth Day. SO. After explainng what a re-run was to the girls, and telling them that it doesn’t have to be earth day to help take care of the earth, I sent them out on a mission to see what they could find in the dirt.  This week’s science theme is Backyard Science and today’s theme was Diggin in the Dirt.

After they came back inside, we talked about the things they found (leaves, rocks, broken pieces of plastic, an empty pepsi bottle – thank you little brother), and they drew the things they found in their journal. Dyl plans on giving her uncle a stern lecture when he gets home from school lol. Right now they’re both back outside, picking the scuppernogs/muscadines from the vine in our front yard. Dyl loves them, Alex doesn’t quite understand them.

Later we’re going to sort things for recycling. We don’t have recycling pick-up, so we’re going to have to set one day a week aside for a recycling day and make a trip to town to dump our cans, plastics, electronics, and paper.

Oh! Milestone! Dyl totally finished the first HoP cd up yesterday. Today we move on to the second cd and I believe plurals of words, like cats and hats. We’re still working on sight words like is, the, to, etc. “The” truly boggles her. She tries sounding it out every time. Its pretty funny. :p

Lunch time!

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Recepcion

As we’re starting up our second official year of homeschool, I figured I too would start up a blog. Selfishly, in hopes of keeping myself more on top of things But also to share with others why we love it so much.

We’ve actually been doing some school work for a few weeks now, but this week we’re really getting into the whole schedule of things.

This is how are days are looking so far:

- Breakfast
- Morning Yoga stretches
- Watch Sid the Science kid with the girls, talk about it. Afterward, we write in our journal and either do a craft or an experiment.
-Lunch
- Reading. We’re doing Hooked on Phonics K-1st Edition and she is ZOOMING through it, much to my surprise. We do various worksheets and activities occasionally. Then we’ll have storytime where I read and they listen, usually pertaining to the science theme we have going for the week, or maybe just a short chapter book.
-Math. Our Math Curriculum is Singapore Math, so we do a lot of the worksheets. Working on basic addition and subtraction, counting to 100, and telling time. She seems to be doing fine, just not very interested in it. :p
Social Studies – This is something we’re just getting into this week. Taking the science theme of the week and finding something to go along with it. Geography, history, etc.

I plan on working Music in eventually, maybe get her piano lessons or buy some small instruments for the house.

Our style doesn’t fit into a specific box, as per usual. We’re very eclectic, using curriculum, but not a strict schedule. Very child-led, but not only child-led. My favorite part is having tons of fun and not realizing that you’re learning. This is the difference between school and homeschool to me.