For some decent freebies of the day relating to homeschooling go there. :)
and because i don't want to lose track of these, I'm copying them down here. :)
Khan Academy. It is located at this addie.
An Old Fashioned Education. Go here to connect with the site directly.
EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY.COM. Go here to connect with the site directly.
Pocket College. Go here to connect to the site directly.
Nineteenth Century American Children & What They Read. Click here to go to today's featured site. And don't miss the page on Children.
and then there's this toymakers site. :)
this week and hopping popcorn
Friday, February 25, 2011
This week has been an interesting one.
Tuesday we cleaned the bookroom and read poems, books, and talked alot about all kinds of different things.
Wednesday we went to Dufflebag Theatre in London. We saw the Three Musketeers. We had a total hoot.
Thursday we did more reading, some book work with numbers and what not.
Friday I was called into work so Dad and son worked on Hopping Popcorn, Day One. The Lad had told me that he wanted dad to do day one of hopping popcorn with him. So I got it ready for them to do. Hopping Popcorn is produced by Amanda Bennett Unit Studies.
I created this copysheet for them. :) I had them use this site to learn the parts of the corn plant. :)
They apparently did well doing the lesson, the lad learned that there are 6 kinds of corn, but only ONE kind pops and that corn came from a type of grass.
In evening we went to gymnastics. It has been changed from Monday due to the Family Day holiday. Boy...it certainly was not nearly as busy as it usually is on Mondays.
Tuesday we cleaned the bookroom and read poems, books, and talked alot about all kinds of different things.
Wednesday we went to Dufflebag Theatre in London. We saw the Three Musketeers. We had a total hoot.
Thursday we did more reading, some book work with numbers and what not.
Friday I was called into work so Dad and son worked on Hopping Popcorn, Day One. The Lad had told me that he wanted dad to do day one of hopping popcorn with him. So I got it ready for them to do. Hopping Popcorn is produced by Amanda Bennett Unit Studies.
I created this copysheet for them. :) I had them use this site to learn the parts of the corn plant. :)
They apparently did well doing the lesson, the lad learned that there are 6 kinds of corn, but only ONE kind pops and that corn came from a type of grass.
In evening we went to gymnastics. It has been changed from Monday due to the Family Day holiday. Boy...it certainly was not nearly as busy as it usually is on Mondays.
Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Cookies
Thursday, February 24, 2011
1 c shortening (or butter)
1 c. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. peanut butter (we use natural)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 c. milk
4 cups quick oatmeal
6 oz chocolate or butterscotch chips.. we more or less wing this. :)
Mix in order of appearance.
Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes at 350.
Enjoy them.
We enjoyed making them. :)
1 c. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. peanut butter (we use natural)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 c. milk
4 cups quick oatmeal
6 oz chocolate or butterscotch chips.. we more or less wing this. :)
Mix in order of appearance.
Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes at 350.
Enjoy them.
We enjoyed making them. :)
Expedition Ireland Review
Friday, February 18, 2011
Click here to visit Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett. Amanda has put together an excellent study on Ireland. Called Expedition Ireland we had ALOT of fun doing this. We took the week to do it you can find each day here: Day one, day 2-3 with our Irish meal day,and day 4-5.
Expedition Ireland is a great study, one that we've enjoyed doing. I can't say that we did everything in it, but we did a lot of it. We did most of the animals of the day, all of the geographic daily items, we practiced saying "prata, and diah duit", we enjoyed watching hurling, and learning about Irish hares. Just a lovely study...great for a curious five year old. :)
One of the things I like about these studies is that I'm not forced to do them a certain way. If I want to do something, but not something else...it doesn't affect the integrity of the unit. For instance... sheep...No interest in studying a sheep... but we did look up the place where those sheep came from. No biggie. We took a rabbit trail when we learned about the Irish hare and then came back to the study. it's all good.
Each day has an overall topic. Each day follows a similar plan. Geographic feature of the day, animal of the day, word of the day etc.
Day 1: Where on Earth is Ireland?
Day 2: The Places of Ireland
Day 3: A Bit of History
Day 4: Cool Things to Know about Ireland
Day 5: Fun and Games in Ireland
Full of child friendly graphics.
Lots of drawing.
Some math.
Lots of suggested reading. We got a ton of books out of the library...none of which were suggested, but they were what we had available. :) We had fun reading about leprechauns , and other such tales of Ireland. We learned that Ireland is a lad of music and storytellers. And we touched just a wee bit on the "troubles" of Ireland and how sad it is that they can't just agree to disagree about their differences.
I have to tell you that I got a copy of this study for my honest review of it. Seriously, St. Patrick's day is just around the corner, why not get this study and learn more of the people for whom this is their national holiday?
You can read what other people thought of this study here.
If you would like to hear more from Amanda Bennett, you will not want to miss the MidSouth Homeschool Convention in Memphis! Check out all the details on how you can win a FREE FAMILY REGISTRATION!! The contest will end at 4:00pm EST on February 19, 2011, so be sure to head on over there and enter.
They also have a bunch of $5 sales going on right now. Head on over here to learn more about that.
Ireland
We finished the study for Expedition Ireland today produced by Amanda Bennett Unit Studies. . Boy... we had fun doing this. I think it's funny. The lad has trouble sitting still, and keeps asking "are we done yet". BUT when asked what he thinks of Ireland and what we learned "I liked it mommy! Ireland is interesting".
We found this video while we were studying the Irish Hare for the Ireland study from Amanda Bennett Unit Studies. It made both of us laugh...watching this silly hare binkying. :
We played a game showing how a hare can turn really fast, and that's why hares can soon turn into too many. We had fun racing around the house and learning. We did this because one of the youtube links led to a hare being chased by some hawks and getting away from them because it zigged and zagged.
Today we found the longest river in Ireland, we made a brochure of places to visit, did an animal matching activity, and had fun looking at hare videos.
Twas a good day to learn a thing or two. :)
We found this video while we were studying the Irish Hare for the Ireland study from Amanda Bennett Unit Studies. It made both of us laugh...watching this silly hare binkying. :
We played a game showing how a hare can turn really fast, and that's why hares can soon turn into too many. We had fun racing around the house and learning. We did this because one of the youtube links led to a hare being chased by some hawks and getting away from them because it zigged and zagged.
Today we found the longest river in Ireland, we made a brochure of places to visit, did an animal matching activity, and had fun looking at hare videos.
Twas a good day to learn a thing or two. :)
Irish Meal Day
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Boy, the lad and I had fun today. Yesterday we did days 2 & 3 of Expedition Ireland put out by Amanda Bennett Unit Studies. We learned prata is potato, that Ireland has beautiful scenery and interesting stories. We had fun colouring their flag and learning about Burren and Crystal.
Instead of doing more studying of Ireland we decided to have a cooking Irish food day.
We started the day off with pancakes of course.
A few we added some gooseberry jam and rolled.
We learned we like the cinnamon sugar best and NOT to be shy with it either. :)
here the lad is learning to apply the cinnamon sugar.
Here I teach him how to roll it. He was a bit hestitant to do it himself as they were quite warm yet.
And the finished product...the cinnamon sugar ones in front, the jam ones behind.
We had thought about dusting them with icing sugar but "Mommy, I think plain is better."
Then off to go grocery shopping for the rest of the days meals....The lad looked hard for the buttermilk, and thought it funny that evaporated milk has a cow picture on the front of the can.
For lunch, due to hunger issues, we decided that the Irish part of our lunch would be GREEN salad. :) The rest we just ate as we wanted to. (sandwiches).
This afternoon we made
That it is fun to alternate kneading bread.
That is it HARD for a five year to cut an "x" in the top of a ball of bread with a big knife.
the boy working hard at kneading
I neglected to take a picture of the finished product. Turned out a bit dry, but the inside was yummy. We'll do this again sometime.
I was HIGHLY intimidated by the thought of making candy and was VERY nervous that I would mess it up. BUT it worked!!!! I was delighted.
Grandmom's Irish Potatoes Candy Nutritional Information
They are pretty good. Hubby says they are kinda like fudge, but different. We were supposed to put nuts on them to look like potato eyes, but the lad nixed that idea and I didn't mind since I'm not a huge nuts in candy person anyways. :)
Oh... we also made cookies!
Nutritional Information
We spontaneously decided to invite gramma up to share our Irish meal. Apparently all the ladies at the bank wanted to come and share it as well. Gramma turned them down. :) Our Irish meal was ham, potatoes, and bread.
The brown furry guy in the forefront is "super Jeff". He's an all powerful rabbit who helps make all types of things. This time he helped make cookies! He was a VERY curious rabbit and got flour on his nose in the process. :) He isn't the lad's favourite stuffy, but he is a good comrade in arms. :)
Instead of doing more studying of Ireland we decided to have a cooking Irish food day.
We started the day off with pancakes of course.
We did two things with them. MOST we put cinnamon sugar on and rolled them up.Here is an easy way to make thin pancakes:
4 oz/ 125g/ 1 cup plain flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1/2 pt/ 250ml/ 1 cup milk
1 tbsp melted butterPut all the ingredients in a blender and blend for about 30 seconds. The batter should then be allowed to stand for 30 minutes in a cool place. Heat a small pan over a medium heat. Grease with a little butter and wipe out with kitchen paper. Fry about 2 tbsp of batter at a time, swirling to cover the base of the pan. Keep them thin and there will be no need to turn. Serve rolled up with sugar.
A few we added some gooseberry jam and rolled.
We learned we like the cinnamon sugar best and NOT to be shy with it either. :)
here the lad is learning to apply the cinnamon sugar.
Here I teach him how to roll it. He was a bit hestitant to do it himself as they were quite warm yet.
And the finished product...the cinnamon sugar ones in front, the jam ones behind.
We had thought about dusting them with icing sugar but "Mommy, I think plain is better."Then off to go grocery shopping for the rest of the days meals....The lad looked hard for the buttermilk, and thought it funny that evaporated milk has a cow picture on the front of the can.
For lunch, due to hunger issues, we decided that the Irish part of our lunch would be GREEN salad. :) The rest we just ate as we wanted to. (sandwiches).
This afternoon we made
Irish Soda Bread
mix together:
4 cups bread flour
1 tbsp double action baking powder
¾ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Add 2 c. buttermilk
Mix well
Knead 1 minute
Cut in half and form into two balls
Place on greased cookie sheet
cut an 'x' in the top of each ½ inch deep
cook 350 oven for 45-55 minutes.
We learned that if you subsitute whole wheat flour for white, adding more fluid a good idea.
That it is fun to alternate kneading bread.
That is it HARD for a five year to cut an "x" in the top of a ball of bread with a big knife.
the boy working hard at kneading
I neglected to take a picture of the finished product. Turned out a bit dry, but the inside was yummy. We'll do this again sometime.I was HIGHLY intimidated by the thought of making candy and was VERY nervous that I would mess it up. BUT it worked!!!! I was delighted.
Grandmom's Irish Potatoes Candy
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Directions
In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, butter, evaporated milk, cream of tartar and salt. Mix well and bring to a boil. Cook to the soft ball stage at 234 degrees F (115 degrees C). A few drops will form a soft ball when dropped into cold water. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Add vanilla and beat until creamy and stiff. Roll into balls and shape like little potatoes. Roll each ball in cinnamon to coat, then press in pieces of chopped nuts to look like eyes. You can also dust with cocoa to simulate dirt.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 62 | Total Fat: 0.9g | Cholesterol: 3mg
They are pretty good. Hubby says they are kinda like fudge, but different. We were supposed to put nuts on them to look like potato eyes, but the lad nixed that idea and I didn't mind since I'm not a huge nuts in candy person anyways. :)Oh... we also made cookies!
Irish Ginger Snaps
Ingredients
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup shortening
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Cream sugar, egg, salt and shortening together. Add flour, baking soda and spices. Mix well. Roll teaspoonfuls of dough into balls and roll the balls in sugar.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 5 to 6 minutes.
Nutritional Information 
Amount Per Serving Calories: 87 | Total Fat: 4.5g | Cholesterol: 6mg
NOTE: in our oven... 15 minutes.
We spontaneously decided to invite gramma up to share our Irish meal. Apparently all the ladies at the bank wanted to come and share it as well. Gramma turned them down. :) Our Irish meal was ham, potatoes, and bread.
The brown furry guy in the forefront is "super Jeff". He's an all powerful rabbit who helps make all types of things. This time he helped make cookies! He was a VERY curious rabbit and got flour on his nose in the process. :) He isn't the lad's favourite stuffy, but he is a good comrade in arms. :)
Tuesday Learning - Feb 15
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
This was a typical Tuesday for us. Play for 20 minutes, work for 20 minutes, play for 30 minutes, work for 20 minutes and so forth. We had a lot of fun, and got a fair amount of learning done as well.
Today we did four pages in this book. Writing out ending sounds to words, matching words to pictures and so forth.
Today we did four pages in this book. Writing out ending sounds to words, matching words to pictures and so forth.
We worked on a couple of workbooks upstairs as well. Math, letters, matching and what not.
We continued to go through a Kumon math book for 4-5-6 year olds. We did another four pages.
We continued to go through a Kumon math book for 4-5-6 year olds. We did another four pages.
We sorted through pencil crayons and sharpened them. The lad spent about 20 minutes working through Time4Learning. You can read my review of the program here.
And to finish off our learning time.. we went for a walk outside. We had fun pretending to be watching out for made up animals and how to avoid them. :)
And to finish off our learning time.. we went for a walk outside. We had fun pretending to be watching out for made up animals and how to avoid them. :)
Lego Contest and more
Sunday, February 13, 2011
I know I'm a bit late in posting what we've been doing this week.
We are now back to saying and pointing at the different letters in the alphabet. We do this once or twice a day. This in an effort to combat that "but I forgot what that letter looks like mommy". :) he knows them if I show him, but when it comes to writing them "i forget".
We are starting to work on telling time. He's really pretty good with the o'clocks and he's starting to get the 1/2 hour but that is still very much a work in progress. We use an old clock that we got at a yard sale or something for 25 cents. We also have a reader rabbit tell the time book that we do exercises in.
We've started going through a Kumon math book for 4-5-6 year olds.
He finds it amazing that in time he'll be able to count to 120! :) he's having fun doing the book though "why do they want me to hold the pencil that way mommy?" (the book shows him the proper way of holding a writing implement). he'd rather write in his hamfisted way but that isn't the correct way to hold it, so I'm using the book to teach him the correct method (as well as practice his numbers). :)
On Friday we focused on doing Lego. We had a lot of fun building and playing with Lego. Then in the evening we went to the Stratford for a Lego Contest with HOPE (my homeschool group).
I thought some of the designs were quite interesting, and one young man did stop-action photography with his. The lad thoroughly enjoyed it, and parts of it were funny too. :) IF I can figure out how to download the photos off my camera's memory I'll post of the contest entries. OH...before I forget...one of the fascinating things at the contest were these puzzle houses made of lego. You make a path in them...one two or three stories high that have mazes in them for a marble to roll through. Quite intriguing and fun they were. :)
Oh, on Thursday we started to work on a unit study that has been produced by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett..about Ireland. We're having some fun with it, we just did Day One. Have to admit though that Justin DID NOT like that the word of the day meant Pony...as he said "I don't like ponies mommy". But he did find it fun learning some of the stories of Ireland and he thought the Great Causeway was quite fascinating. Watching the videos of Ireland and seeing the castles was simply a cause of lots of exclamations! MOMMY!!!! it's a castle!!! So we might try building our own castle next week as we work on more of the Ireland study. ... wouldn't that be fun?
It wasn't a great week last week for homeschooling, but we managed to keep busy and we did manage to learn a thing or two so overall...that's what counts right? :)
We are now back to saying and pointing at the different letters in the alphabet. We do this once or twice a day. This in an effort to combat that "but I forgot what that letter looks like mommy". :) he knows them if I show him, but when it comes to writing them "i forget".
We are starting to work on telling time. He's really pretty good with the o'clocks and he's starting to get the 1/2 hour but that is still very much a work in progress. We use an old clock that we got at a yard sale or something for 25 cents. We also have a reader rabbit tell the time book that we do exercises in.
We've started going through a Kumon math book for 4-5-6 year olds.
On Friday we focused on doing Lego. We had a lot of fun building and playing with Lego. Then in the evening we went to the Stratford for a Lego Contest with HOPE (my homeschool group).
I thought some of the designs were quite interesting, and one young man did stop-action photography with his. The lad thoroughly enjoyed it, and parts of it were funny too. :) IF I can figure out how to download the photos off my camera's memory I'll post of the contest entries. OH...before I forget...one of the fascinating things at the contest were these puzzle houses made of lego. You make a path in them...one two or three stories high that have mazes in them for a marble to roll through. Quite intriguing and fun they were. :)
Oh, on Thursday we started to work on a unit study that has been produced by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett..about Ireland. We're having some fun with it, we just did Day One. Have to admit though that Justin DID NOT like that the word of the day meant Pony...as he said "I don't like ponies mommy". But he did find it fun learning some of the stories of Ireland and he thought the Great Causeway was quite fascinating. Watching the videos of Ireland and seeing the castles was simply a cause of lots of exclamations! MOMMY!!!! it's a castle!!! So we might try building our own castle next week as we work on more of the Ireland study. ... wouldn't that be fun?
It wasn't a great week last week for homeschooling, but we managed to keep busy and we did manage to learn a thing or two so overall...that's what counts right? :)
Teach Art at Home
Friday, February 11, 2011
looks to be an interesting site.
you can find it here.
Your art instruction resource for self-learners and home schoolers. You will find homeschool art curriculum, online art courses, and free art projects.
you can find it here.
Your art instruction resource for self-learners and home schoolers. You will find homeschool art curriculum, online art courses, and free art projects.
Freebie of the Day
Thursday, February 10, 2011
You should go here if you don't already... you get helpful stuff for your homeschool needs.. FOR FREE!
yes, once in a while they ask if you want to buy something...choose to or not..it's up to you. (I mostly don't but I did get the kindergarten book from them.. worth the $7 I paid for it). But mostly I just ignore those emails and just get the free stuff.
Today the freebie was PDF's the periodic tables and more. So go there, get it. :)
yes, once in a while they ask if you want to buy something...choose to or not..it's up to you. (I mostly don't but I did get the kindergarten book from them.. worth the $7 I paid for it). But mostly I just ignore those emails and just get the free stuff.
Today the freebie was PDF's the periodic tables and more. So go there, get it. :)
Sites I would like to look at again
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Story Sites
The Story Home.
Illuminations
I got the above site through Teach-nology.
Family Life
Families with purpose.
The Story Home.
Here you will find original and classic children's audio stories. Every other week, The Story Home will offer a brand new story read to you by a very special storyteller named Alan, for FREE!Kids Audio
We have over 200 audio stories in MP3 format for you to download and enjoy with your family and friendsteaching sites
Why not try our Reading Books? Or if you enjoy Colouring, choose from the Colouring Books section
Illuminations
I got the above site through Teach-nology.
Family Life
Families with purpose.
From the joyful celebrations of family nights to the wild and wacky fun of science experiments, our family fun section offers a host of great ideas for every family.
George Washington - DNG - A review
ICE CREAM!! This was a favourite food of George Washington. "It's not as good as a sprinkle sandwich though, is it mommy? Though it is pretty good isn't it?"
This is a unit study that has been produced by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett..
The lad and I did this unit study over the course of three days. We took a day to read a couple of books about George Washington, then a day to do day one and two, and then another day to do days 3-5.
We discovered how difficult it is to find books on George Washington. This despite the fact that Amanda Bennett lists several in the unit study, we couldn't find a single one! Part of that's living in small town Ontario, but we couldn't find but the two in the London (and that's NOT small town Ontario), neither of them was in her list of suggested reading. We enjoyed the one book on George, it was written in a fairly engaging story style. It had some pictures as well so the boy could see some of how it was back in the day of George Washington.
I know that he enjoyed some of the study on George and that he learned something because suddenly Bunny Town (a make believe world that all that is good in the world occurs there) had a "bunny washington" in it. :) Made me smile. Here's a lad having 'Bunny Washington' explain that cutting down trees will make your dad angry, and that sometimes you have to help people even if you want to do something else (aka George wanted to be a farmer, but instead because president of the USA).
Amanda Bennett unit studies are laid out in such away that it makes it very easy to do the study. They have lap book elements and fully printable pages for notebooking, drawing and such like. The graphics are child-friendly. If you want to go off on rabbit trails, it is easy enough to do. If you want to skip certain sections, you can do that too. :) We skipped ALL the stuff that had to do with American government or that I thought too difficult to do with a wiggly five year old. ALL I wanted to do was touch on the basics, and that's what I was easily enabled to do.
Day 1: Who Was George Washington?
Day 2: People and Places in George Washington’s Life
Day 3: The Accomplishments of George Washington
Day 4: Lessons to Learn From George Washington
Day 5: Remembering George Washington
One thing I like is that I can copy the questions into my own word program and instead of printing out five pages of material, I can print out two. Save on the printer ink. I can pick and choose what pages I want to copy in their original format as well.
I was given a copy of this unit study for my honest review.
The blog tour is over here. Go there to read some excellent reviews.
Download N Go is having a number of specials on right now. Go here to learn more about them please. :)
Fun 4 Mom Giveaway
The Winner will receive his/her choice of either a $75 Amazon gift card or a Be Mine Spa and Chocolate Valentine's Gift Basket from Amazon.com with an approximate retail value of $99.95.
To enter the Contest send your full name and mailing address to contestentries @ unitstudy.com with a subject line reading "Fun 4 Mom Entry" no later than 11:59 p.m. (EST), February 13, 2011. The contest rules can be found here. A winner will be chosen on February 14, 2011.
This is a unit study that has been produced by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett..
The lad and I did this unit study over the course of three days. We took a day to read a couple of books about George Washington, then a day to do day one and two, and then another day to do days 3-5.
We discovered how difficult it is to find books on George Washington. This despite the fact that Amanda Bennett lists several in the unit study, we couldn't find a single one! Part of that's living in small town Ontario, but we couldn't find but the two in the London (and that's NOT small town Ontario), neither of them was in her list of suggested reading. We enjoyed the one book on George, it was written in a fairly engaging story style. It had some pictures as well so the boy could see some of how it was back in the day of George Washington.
I know that he enjoyed some of the study on George and that he learned something because suddenly Bunny Town (a make believe world that all that is good in the world occurs there) had a "bunny washington" in it. :) Made me smile. Here's a lad having 'Bunny Washington' explain that cutting down trees will make your dad angry, and that sometimes you have to help people even if you want to do something else (aka George wanted to be a farmer, but instead because president of the USA).
Amanda Bennett unit studies are laid out in such away that it makes it very easy to do the study. They have lap book elements and fully printable pages for notebooking, drawing and such like. The graphics are child-friendly. If you want to go off on rabbit trails, it is easy enough to do. If you want to skip certain sections, you can do that too. :) We skipped ALL the stuff that had to do with American government or that I thought too difficult to do with a wiggly five year old. ALL I wanted to do was touch on the basics, and that's what I was easily enabled to do.
Day 1: Who Was George Washington?
Day 2: People and Places in George Washington’s Life
Day 3: The Accomplishments of George Washington
Day 4: Lessons to Learn From George Washington
Day 5: Remembering George Washington
One thing I like is that I can copy the questions into my own word program and instead of printing out five pages of material, I can print out two. Save on the printer ink. I can pick and choose what pages I want to copy in their original format as well.
I was given a copy of this unit study for my honest review.
The blog tour is over here. Go there to read some excellent reviews.
Download N Go is having a number of specials on right now. Go here to learn more about them please. :)
Fun 4 Mom Giveaway
The Winner will receive his/her choice of either a $75 Amazon gift card or a Be Mine Spa and Chocolate Valentine's Gift Basket from Amazon.com with an approximate retail value of $99.95.
To enter the Contest send your full name and mailing address to contestentries @ unitstudy.com with a subject line reading "Fun 4 Mom Entry" no later than 11:59 p.m. (EST), February 13, 2011. The contest rules can be found here. A winner will be chosen on February 14, 2011.
Blog is being weird lately
Monday, February 07, 2011
not sure what's up with the blog lately, but it seems to be displaying incorrectly.
Will have to see if I can figure out just what is up with it.
Will have to see if I can figure out just what is up with it.
Experimentation!
Friday, February 04, 2011
The name of the game today was "let's experiment" and so we did. :)
We'd gotten a number of books out of the library that had to do with science experiments and so we played around with the books.
We started with Everyday Science Experiments in the gym
We'd gotten a number of books out of the library that had to do with science experiments and so we played around with the books.
We started with Everyday Science Experiments in the gym
All we did was work our way through the book. The one on learning about a curve ball was quite interesting to boy and cat. I will post a video if I can get it to upload. :)
We listened to our heart beat, leaned hard against a wall and learned that afterwards our arm will go up all on it's own! We stood really close to a wall and learned how hard it was to lift the outside foot from the wall.
Then we moved on to Everyday Science Experiments in the Kitchen.
We listened to our heart beat, leaned hard against a wall and learned that afterwards our arm will go up all on it's own! We stood really close to a wall and learned how hard it was to lift the outside foot from the wall.
Then we moved on to Everyday Science Experiments in the Kitchen.
In this book we learned that lemon juice can turn dull pennies into shiny pennies.
Before
After
Before
After
What we found interesting is what we thought was grime on the one penny, turned yellow and flaky after it was in the lemon juice. It wouldn't come off..it just looked flaky but wasn't really. The lad was quite intrigued by it, and I was at a loss to explain why.
We had fun learning about surface tension by adding 30 pennies to a small jar of water that was full to the brim. Hardly any water was split and the boy was quite fascinated by this. "look mommy! the water is all floaty! Look mommy it pops up at me!". :)
Time 4 Learning
Thursday, February 03, 2011
I've been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. Time4Learning can be used as an online homeschooling curriculum, afterschool tutorial or a summer skill builder. Find out how to write your own curriculum review for Time4Learning.
REVIEW
The lad enjoys this program for the most part. He finds it fun, and relatively easy to do.
What he doesn't like is the constant repetition of do this and then that. He likes..."MOMMY! I already know what they want me to do! Why do they keep telling me? Don't they know that I'm five and I know how to listen already?" A new one I heard today was "why do they have to show me? I know what to do!!" AND "Mommy!!! I did it right! Why did they tell me I was wrong and then do what I just did?" (my response was...probably a glitch in the computer bud - as it had done the same to me earlier).
I find the kindergarten work a bit too easy but it's hard to know what to expect each lesson and if they will hit on something that he already knows and understands. I am considering jumping up to grade 1 materials and seeing if that will offer him a bit more of a challenge.
I consider purchasing the program, but quite frankly...at $20 a month I simply can't afford it at this time. I will continue to review it and make a hopefully informed decision if I think long-term it would be of benefit to him or not.
REVIEW
The lad enjoys this program for the most part. He finds it fun, and relatively easy to do.
What he doesn't like is the constant repetition of do this and then that. He likes..."MOMMY! I already know what they want me to do! Why do they keep telling me? Don't they know that I'm five and I know how to listen already?" A new one I heard today was "why do they have to show me? I know what to do!!" AND "Mommy!!! I did it right! Why did they tell me I was wrong and then do what I just did?" (my response was...probably a glitch in the computer bud - as it had done the same to me earlier).
I find the kindergarten work a bit too easy but it's hard to know what to expect each lesson and if they will hit on something that he already knows and understands. I am considering jumping up to grade 1 materials and seeing if that will offer him a bit more of a challenge.
I consider purchasing the program, but quite frankly...at $20 a month I simply can't afford it at this time. I will continue to review it and make a hopefully informed decision if I think long-term it would be of benefit to him or not.
George Washington - DNG
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Today we worked on the last three days of the George Washington Study. I made a worksheet over at ESL Writing Wizard on Mark 10:45 to go along with the study.
We did days three-five. George Washington is a unit study from Amanda Bennett's Unit Studies.
I have to admit, we really picked and chose what we wanted to do. :) We, as Canadians, teaching a five year old, really aren't too worried about learning constitutional stuff about the United States. It was FUN learning that Washington's favourite food was ice cream, so we rewarded ourselves when all done doing our work with having a bowl of ice cream. We talked about what it means to serve. George Washington spent his life serving people in one form or another. Jesus calls us to live a life of service as well. So it was good to see this and think about how we can serve God and others in how we live our lives and the choices that we make.
After we enjoyed our icecream we watched some TV (about the megastructure they built in Dubai) and then we enjoyed this you tube video
Though Justin quite determinedly said "I don't DANCE, I GROOVE!" :)
We did days three-five. George Washington is a unit study from Amanda Bennett's Unit Studies.
I have to admit, we really picked and chose what we wanted to do. :) We, as Canadians, teaching a five year old, really aren't too worried about learning constitutional stuff about the United States. It was FUN learning that Washington's favourite food was ice cream, so we rewarded ourselves when all done doing our work with having a bowl of ice cream. We talked about what it means to serve. George Washington spent his life serving people in one form or another. Jesus calls us to live a life of service as well. So it was good to see this and think about how we can serve God and others in how we live our lives and the choices that we make.
After we enjoyed our icecream we watched some TV (about the megastructure they built in Dubai) and then we enjoyed this you tube video
Though Justin quite determinedly said "I don't DANCE, I GROOVE!" :)
Ground Hog Day
Today we studied ground hog day.
We pulled information from the web to do this study.
The history of Ground Hog Day: Groundhog club
A pop up ground hog. We added a flashlight to be the sun and had a cloud shape as well. Will the groundhog see his shadow?
We learned abit about the groundhog.
We tried to make shadow puppets...but well... let's just say it was an attempt. :)
We read this book:
We played this memory game of animals that hibernate. and tic-tac-toe ground hog here.
And we learned about Wiarton Willie (the Canadian groundhog). :)
and I went here to print off some PDF's for the lad to work on. Took a bit of figuring to get them to print off as my computer is being fidgety today.
We did another craft, but I can't find the link to it anymore.
We pulled information from the web to do this study.
The history of Ground Hog Day: Groundhog club
A pop up ground hog. We added a flashlight to be the sun and had a cloud shape as well. Will the groundhog see his shadow?
We learned abit about the groundhog.
We tried to make shadow puppets...but well... let's just say it was an attempt. :)
We read this book:
We played this memory game of animals that hibernate. and tic-tac-toe ground hog here.
And we learned about Wiarton Willie (the Canadian groundhog). :)
and I went here to print off some PDF's for the lad to work on. Took a bit of figuring to get them to print off as my computer is being fidgety today.
We did another craft, but I can't find the link to it anymore.
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