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Homeschooling this week

7/11/2013

Since the lad is at day camp, homeschooling this week has been differently focused.

I'm answering questions that he has come up with
1. Ants
2. snow fleas.
3. why not to feed the geese
4. what ant queens look like
5. how to build an ant habitat (admittedly hubby is helping with this one).

We are doing our night time reading. We don't have time in the morning to do our regular reading/circle time.

We've started doing "reading kingdom". This is a review that we are working on. Today we finished off his skills assessment and started on the keyboarding lessons. I hiope t

We've continued to talk about how we are going finish our first global art project. The lad is getting his thoughts better into his head about how to colour it and draw the lines darker. He's been too tired to actually work at it though, so thinking and talking is good.

He's also been experimenting with his toy flies. This morning he learned they can float on top of some ice without getting wet, but overtime they freeze into the ice a bit and they don't like that, not one bit.

Burgess Bird Book for Children

6/11/2013

I'm starting a review of a product called Circle Time. It is a product put out by Preschoolers and Peace. I have to admit, I always thought of circle time as being a little kids thing to do, and not of what we do here at home as being a circle time, but according to the book I received, the time I spend reading and doing devotions in the morning with my son would be considered Circle Time. SO what we do in our circle time is
1. do devotions. We use Keys for Kids.
2. read a book of the lads choosing: currently reading Warriors a Dangerous Path
3. The Burgess Bird Book for Children.

Sometimes when we read we come across surprising to us ideas. This morning our surprising idea came from the Bird Book. The idea that birds have whiskers. The birds are the whip-poor-will and the Chuck's will's widow. I know of the whip-poor-will, but the other was a new bird to me, but I never knew they had whiskers. Like who thinks of a bird having whiskers?

So found this picture (below) over here. Can you see the whiskers on this Chuck's Will's Widow? Neat huh? If you browse pictures you can also see the size of their mouth. My lad was quite impressed with how well they camoflage on the ground as well.