Ok, so we are back at it again! This week had it's ups and downs, which I expected for our first week back after almost two months off. I had a few fears about what homeschooling would look like in our new home overseas, but I have found that it is possible. I will have to make a few adaptations to our current plan when materials aren't available, but for the most part things will stay the same. So here's a look at our week...
Language Arts: Princess finished another lesson in Explode the Code and she's doing well with it. She also read Daniel's Duck this week. I was surprised that in the break she didn't lose her reading skills, instead they seemed to have gotten better. It's like her brain was able to rest and finally make some of the connections it needed to.
Math: We started with a new unit on multiplication this week and it went well. I'm so thankful for the Home Instructor's Guide and it's suggestions of activities to reinforce what they are learning from textbook. It really helps me to be a better teacher. We also did a few addition/subtraction word problems this week.
Science: We studied fish, seahorses and sharks. Princess really took to the seahorse. We ended up drawing seaweed and seahorses everywhere that day. Here's a look at her notebook page from this week...
We also did an outdoor hour challenge on flowerless plants, which you can read about in the post below.
History: We talked about the Phonecians and tried to make colored glass, but we had to drop that because I couldn't find wax paper anywhere. One of those things I will have to be more mindful of and prepare for in the coming weeks! We also studied the Ashurbanipal. Princess was very proud of him for creating the first library, but didn't like the fact that he was mean.
Others: We did a wax resist with our art program and really enjoyed the project. We also began reading the Lamb's Tale version of the Tempest. We have begun studying Ernst Haeckel for our artist study. I thought it would be neat to coordinated our nature and artist studies for a few weeks. Here's a look princess' notebook page on Haeckel mushroom's drawing...
We enjoyed our week, hope you enjoyed reading about it!
3 comments:
Sounds like a great first week back to school! We had a similiar experience after taking time off during the holidays- both of my children seemed to magically aquire skills they did not have when we last "did" school! Sometimes a break is good medicine!
If it'll make you feel any better we tried that colored glass project from SOTW and it didn't work for us- the picture underneath didn't show at all and it caused great disappointment! Though they were pretty anyway.
Great week! I love your daughter's notebooking pages...I would love to do something like that with my girls.
Sarah
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