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HOPE days returns
Yesterday HOPE days started again.
It was fun. The lad learned about dinosaurs, had gym time (played a game called lemonade that made a big impression on him) and did some science. I enjoyed teaching the children science. NOW.. I have learned that even with two helpers that 14 children ages 6-8 in one classroom is a HUGE number of children to try to teach science to so I need to try to arrange that a bit better. smaller groups doing different things.
Then afterwards we went to the Western Fair. We had an enjoyable day. Hubby’s knee has been bugging him a bit so that slowed us down a bit.
It was rather cool… they have this free children’s play area. Tractors to drive, straw to jump into, a duck race, sunflower seed planting, tractor pull and a variety of other events. So the lad had a great deal of fun. We partially watched a cow calving, petted some pigs, ate cotton candy and caramel corn and corn dogs. Typical fair food. 🙂
We did miss the horse show, and the extreme canine show this year. We watched reptile ray. Man NOT a good show if you don’t believe in evolution, but the information just about the reptiles he showed was quite interesting. I would rather he just talk about the reptiles and leave the evolutionary stuff at home.. cause what’s the point? Is it to give a history (in his eyes) lesson or to talk about creatures he really enjoys being around?
Monarchs and Time lines
Today the lad and I started to work on a timeline for the history of transportation. We got up to 1620. he was quite surprised at what is considered part of transportation.
We got bogged down looking for pics so decided to do a short cut and just look for pics online, which led to me being reminded about the Butterfly Conservancy homeschool thing this afternoon…. SO….RUSH RUSH RUSH but we got there 3 minutes early. The lad had a hoot. 🙂
He fell asleep on the way home.
Jenn who ran the program suggested Journey North for more information on the Monarch. Here’s the link to the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory. The lad was quite intrigued by the birds that ran around the butterfly house. He even helped to tag a butterfly. Our Butterfly is NAW 325. We’ll be able to look in the spring at Monarch Watch to see if he (yes it’s a male) made it all the way to Mexico for the winter. Mind…that all depends if anyone finds him and his tag. 🙂
Doing more with Transportation
Car Spelling Song
On the road to Spelling
When teaching it is important to use as many senses as possible. Here is a way to use music to practice spelling words.
“Car, Bus, Van” song (Tune: Jingle Bells)
C-A-R, C-A-R that’s how you spell car
B-U-S, B-U-S that’s how you spell bus
V-A-N, V-A-N that’s how you spell van
Transportation helps us, I hope you understand!
Sing the song several times so they feel successful and can spell the words.
Car Play with Ramps
Help your child set up a ramp and watch the cars go.
1. Which cars go faster?
2. Which cars go further?
3. What happens when you change the angle of the ramp?
4. What happens when you change the surface of the ramp?
I asked questions such as.. if you were going to divide your cars into teams, what teams would they be on? Why? How many do you have that are cars? trucks? how many of blue or orange or ??? We weighed them to see if that would help determine who went the fastest. We guessed how would go the fastest. we experimented with ways to “protect” the boulders.
suggestion by the author: If you take digital pictures you can turn this experience into a book. Have your child help to label the pictures and soon he will be able to read his own book.
Forms of Transportation
we started to make a time line of transportation. I’ll use this link as a idea place. 🙂
We started with walking, and progressed to swimming. 🙂 (yes I know that’s not an official mode of transportation, but YOU try convincing a six year old that it’s not a valid form of getting around?). 🙂
We did a thing with links… figuring out solutions to problems using links and clues given. It was interesting how it all turned out.
others in this series
day one airplanes
planning to do airplanes
Blog roll call
A couple of posts in the realm of homeschooling that I liked.
1. because it is so true of a variety of things in life. This one pertains to homeschooling, but as with anything, the wrong expectations can net you an outcome you didn’t anticipate.
2. 1+1+1=1 this post just made me smile today.
Monarchs and drawing
We have a monarch actively hatching right now! It’s just TOO cool. 🙂 Both hatched and have since been released! 🙂 It was very exciting to watch. It’s amazing how quickly they go from wrinkled to full wings.
The chrysalis when first made.
they got dark..pretty cool eh?
the wrinkled just out stage
both Monarchs.
This was just fun.
We put them outside so when they were ready to leave they could.
The last one was gone by 6 p.m.
Worked on some work books.
we finished “Thinking Skills”
We did a few pages in Complete Canadian Curriculum 1
we practiced our alphabet again using blue clues flap cards
Read some poems and then got inspired to draw a picture of what one of the poems was about. It was rather fun to talk and draw and think.
Went for a walk. Brought a sock back to a friend, and then stayed for tea. On the walk there we gained a male mosquito and a caterpillar of some sort. 🙂
Dug some potatoes.
And made decisions about supper. We had roast pork, carrots and pasta.
I can tell the lad is quite a bit better from his earache but he’s not all the way back yet. I am looking forward to the day when he is all better.