"Explorer Spirit…Servant Heart…"
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Sep 28th, 2012
Did you know that September 19th is the official ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ Day? So, what’s a homeschool family to do? It becomes also ‘Dress Like a Pirate’ Day! The boys rummaged through their dress up bin and came up with some awesome outfits! Krispy Kreme offered a free doughnut to anyone who came in […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Sep 28th, 2012
The boys are enrolled in an art class. For their first session, they learned about using the primary colors to create others. Here is the finished project for day one: using only the red, blue and yellow, they made all the other colors (making some lighter with white)
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Sep 12th, 2012
Our homeschool honored ‘Neither Rain nor Snow Day’ by drawing pictures for our mailman. We taped them to the mailbox for him to find. They were thrilled to receive a thank you note that said: ‘Dear A— and R—, thank your for the great drawings!! They made my day! Glenn the mailman
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Jun 30th, 2012
Our homeschool group had the opportunity to visit a traveling production that shows the life size reproduction of Israel’s tabernacle, called Sanctuary Journey. Everything built is to scale. Our docent led us under a tent that has some photos of different replicas and explained what we would be seeing… Then, he led us to the […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on May 28th, 2012
Nearby is a neat little exotic animal rescue/wildlife museum organization called Star Eco-Station. I took the boys on a day when we were feeling a little bit of school burnout. It was a nice, yet informative, break in the day. ‘A’ is looking forward to when he turns 14, because this is when he can […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on May 1st, 2012
You may or may not know this, but there is actually a holiday of some sort every day of the year. We like to look up the holiday for the day as a part of our homeschool activity. This has made for some wonderful lessons in history, geography, science, etc. Here are a few random […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Mar 6th, 2012
Oh how I adore moments like this! While working on some homeschool something, I stopped for a moment to answer the phone. While I was distracted, the boys took it on themselves to rub a pillow on their hair and create static electricity. This caused a fun bunny trail that led us to a lesson […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Feb 19th, 2012
The boys and I did a little lesson on Chinese New Year. A few weeks later, a local school had a Chinese New Year celebration. A traveling group of Chinese college students were visiting from Beijing and shared their traditional music and dance. The master and mistress of ceremonies. The man spoke in Chinese and […]
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Feb 17th, 2012
I chose a piece of landscape art for the boys to copy, using watercolor. It was harder to control the color than it looked! I decided to sit with them an paint as well. It was a fun project. Mine… Not sure which boy did which…. Volcanoes… Underwater scene…
Posted in HOMESCHOOL on Feb 7th, 2012
I decided to plan an activity packed Saturday. After getting the boys up relatively early, I drove us out to the local country town of Penryn for a fundraiser book sale. I gave each boy $5 to buy some books. ‘A’ had his mind set on finding a ‘Sherlock Holmes’. Now, this book sale took […]