"Explorer Spirit…Servant Heart…"
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on May 7th, 2008
(Leigh writes): Linda and Kim hosted this session. In circle time, she began with a reading from Ecclesiastes 3. Here is a ‘time to plant and a time to uproot’… ‘A time for peace’… Lesson on the calendar…. (I love these next two pictures…) Learning the months of the year… Our two ‘A’s’-of the […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 23rd, 2008
Sonlight Core B is officially complete! This past year, in Core B, we: Read all the Bible stories in Children’s Everyday Bible Began Scripture memorization, but stopped mid-year. We will pick this up again this summer. Read all of the Read Aloud Stories (too many to mention) Completed all of the Language Arts worksheets and […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 11th, 2008
Leigh was the teacher for co-op today. She did the theme of Dr. Seuss. We started with circle time then got into three groups and rotated between three different rooms. It was really nice having it in three rooms! Circle time – musical hats Thing 1 & 2 even joined circle time! Station one had […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Apr 6th, 2008
Surprise, surprise, we woke up to snow AGAIN, in April!! Miss Kathy hosted today and the theme was "snow". Circle Time. We sang a couple of songs, then passed around the microscopic pictures of ice crystals… Our newest member, baby T! A bowl of warm water was set out, as well as a bowl of […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 27th, 2008
Linda hosted our group today. The theme was ‘Friendship’. We began with a song, "Ring Around the Rosie". The kids took turns saying what they liked about each other. We wrote what they said on paper that has each child’s name on it. The kids made friendship cards to give to each other, and made […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 27th, 2008
Liz hosted this week and had a terrific variety of activities for the kids. We began with playing "Red Light/Green Light". Then, we played, "Doggie, Doggie, Where’s Your Bone?" (‘M’ is hiding the "bone") The kids wrote or narrated the answers to the following questions: My name is ______ My favorite color is ______ I […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 27th, 2008
(I just pulled this up from my archives. We began working through this list early August, 2006. Here is how far along we are.) I am slowly implementing different elements of the Charlotte Mason structure into our homeschool environment. The first element is to read from the booklist from Ambleside Online. Here is the list. […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 17th, 2008
We read a book called, ‘First Thousand Words’. Each page is a theme and the words associated with it. I also use the same book in Spanish. We were reading the words for the train station, the airport, and the garage. I read the word in Englis, then Spanish, and the boys copy me. For […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 14th, 2008
This last Tuesday, we had our first homeschool co-op gathering at our church. The Children’s Ministry Director has graciously agreed to let us use one of the rooms temporarily for our growing group. Really, it’s 3 rooms in one…each room has a sliding divider wall which we left open to create one large room. It […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 10th, 2008
Sundy hosted today’s group. We had a small group today. But it was still a lot of fun. We celebrated Sundy’s son’s "T’s" birthday he turned 5. We started with cirlce time and then Sundy put on a puppet show and gave some rules for the day and did some trivia on "T’s" birth. The […]