Homeschool Discoveries

This was a short week for us (as I’m sure it was for many people) with our family returning late Monday afternoon from a 4-day weekend out of town.   It felt more like a “break” week than last week did, since last week was so full/busy.   We didn’t make any big plans — we mostly stayed home (besides taking care of a bunch of errands…and actually having time to do them in the morning before everyone was tired and crabby!)

When it was time to take our summer break, I told the kids I would give them two weeks without bugging them about “school stuff” at all (We have some light schoolwork planned for the summer).  But they still managed to learn a lot anyway.  🙂

I tried to keep a few notes of the learning activities the kids did this week…mostly on their own initiative, or with a little prompting/suggesting from me when they were out of ideas on a few rainy afternoons:

• Letter writing (Miss M — age 9)
• Using the dictionary to check spelling (Miss M)
• Snap circuits (Mr. E  — age 6 and Mr. K — age 4)
• Fill-it-in Math Word Problems (like mad libs, but with a math question at the end)
• Miss M and I tried a new yeast bread recipe (Italian breakfast bread)
• Educational iPad games
• Science “One Minute Mysteries”
• Mr. K dictated a short story to me
• Started “Owls in the Family” as an afternoon read-aloud with all three older kids
• Finish a woven potholder (Miss M)
• Miss M learned how to make twice baked potatoes
• Typing practice (Mr. E and Miss M)
• I finished a long read-aloud with Miss M
• Finding new books at the library (a nice review of using alphabetical order for Miss M)
• Practicing etiquette at a backyard tea party
• Birdwatching in the backyard (we observed a female goldfinch for quite a while)
• Started Life of Fred Cats, at the kids’ request
• Random picture book read-alouds

Have a wonderful weekend!

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