Change It Up Fridays

You know how school is more than doing reading, writing and arithmetic?   Well lately that's what it seems like our school has been.   I've been adding interactive stuff, but it's been rather helter-skelter.    That hasn't been working for my organized, easily stressed, creative lad so I decided we'll put those creative elements on one day.   I chose Friday because well.. I CAN.  :)   To that end on Fridays we'll be doing things like our
Interactive Math journal.   Today our interactive journal was on the rules of patterning.   Each day has a creative element, and my son made his element into a monster. 

.Our Writing Poetry Lesson.   Today we learned about Change Poetry.  In change Poetry you talk about an object that changes three times.  It follows an ABCB pattern.  We are using Poetry Patterns and Themes as our study guide.

Learning about our own beloved country of Canada.   As we are restarting this study, we started with making a puzzle map of Canada.   As you can see our ever present helpers are helping him finish it up.     They celebrated by eating cake (while we had lunch).  :)

Geography of Europe by watching videos and making a meal of the country studied.   This week it's Finland.

Our recorder Lessons.   We're starting with the lessons from Schoolhouse Teachers.   Today we learned how to make G and A and how to breathe softly.

  Art Lessons.   For now I am using a book called Hands On Art Projects. 

Today the focus was on Michelangelo and how he used to go to the quarry for marble to make sculptures.  As marble is out of my price range, we made do with soap.

The leftovers from the DOVE soap bar my lad stuck in the microwave, hoping it would completely blow up, .. it expanded but blow up it did not.   The softened soap was then moulded into an art project as well but "MOM NO, no picture of this guy."  :)

 We are still doing important things like math, writing, and reading.  Just in a different format yes?   

It's interesting, despite this day taking a tad bit longer to accomplished our schooling in, no complaints from one boy child.   AND THAT my readers... Is  VERY good thing.  :)