Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Thanks to a twisted ankle my homeschool day is not going quite as I planned, but I still was able to do a small project with Jem and Katie, and of course reading together. We used some old soup cans and made them pretty with scrap fabric and now we have a pencil holder. Re-cycling!  

We read "the adventures of an aluminum can", and also the delightful imaginative story of "Two so Small" which we enjoyed as a special bedtime story.  

Lots of bike riding and Lego playing today.  

Monday, May 30, 2016

We had a very delightful, relaxing weekend during which the children enjoyed a special trip to town to buy bikes, and also did a little garage sale shopping. Jem built his garbage truck Lego set with Daddy on Sunday evening. 

Unit Study

This morning we officially started our Garbage Unit Study! We read a book about Garbage Collectors, cut out different items from a magazine and organised them into piles; Garbage, Hazardous Waste, Recycle, Compost and Re-Use. I plan to buy a poster paper for Jem tomorrow as he wants to paint with his new paints, so we will do a poster all about garbage.

Math

Today for math we practiced counting to 20 again, Jem has a hard time after 14 but he is trying. The problem with that is he learnt wrong a few months ago and I didn't bother to correct him, so we are having to retrain his brain. He also did two math problems; 10+10= and 15-5=

Reading/Writing

For reading/writing, we did a quick over view of his sight word flash cards.

Nature Study/ Physical Education

Outside we discovered a new bean plant poking itself through the soil, and Jem helped Vienna learn to ride a bike.

Bible

We continue to go through the Children's Bible and pray together as a family nearly every evening.

Garbage Unit Study

Who know garbage could be so interesting!?

We unofficially started our unity study today by reading the book "Here Comes the Garbage Barge" I was not expecting to enjoy it so much! This book is loosely based on a true story. I plan to read it again with the kids and show them on the map all the places the garbage barge went before it found a place to get rid of that smelly garbage. So there is a geography lesson right there where I was totally not expecting it! All the art work was made with garbage as well, very imaginative.  Besides editing out some slangy language, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book aloud! 

We did no 'formal' school work today, but did enjoy trying out our binoculars, watching bumblebees through our magnifying glass, reading more about Huckle in Richard Scarry's 'Great Big SCHOOLHOUSE" , and practicing our counting from 1 - 20.