On Thursday night I was out and about, picking up a gift that I’d found on kijiji (such a great resource for me this year!) when I decided to buy a bath mat. A simple enough thing to do one might think. And there was a shop called Bed, Bath and Beyond nearby so I stopped in. About 15 minutes later I left, with a bath mat, but in the throes of a panic attack. Now I’ve never been a…
It’s been a while since I posted anything about what we are up to with our schoolin’, which is odd given how much of our time it takes up and how much of my thinking it takes up! I spent a great deal of the Christmas holidays planning our relaunch into homeschool in the new year. Though we had managed to keep up with things over the summer and through the autumn it was patchier than I was happy with…
Today we began a new curriculum that taught us an amazing amount in a relatively short (3 hour) period. It is a cross disciplinary curriculum that embraces visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning styles allowing students to use manipulatives and their own reasoning skills to decode problems and create inventive scenarios. Today we explored… construction… teamwork, negotiation, ethics… personal responsibility (tidying belongings, respect for space) Geology & Biology peer to peer tutoring… numeracy… life skills (food preparation) coupled with an Al…
Winter has, unsurprisingly, been a running theme through our homeschool this last week. As well as tracking the weather and temperature on our weather chart, we have been indulging in some winter crafts. We’ve made paper snowflakes for our window, made icicle bird feeders to hang outside our windows (as the ice melts the seeds fall to earth, we actually had some very tall sunflowers grown from dropped seeds last year), brought snow inside for sculpting and sung songs about…