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George Washington – DNG

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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!” 🙂

Ground Hog Day

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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.

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Sketch Tuesday – Science

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This week’s assignment due Monday, January 31, 2011:
Sketch something you study in science.

They will be posted next Tuesday at Harmony Art Mom’s site.

We also played an oceans card game.
And practiced writing numbers and letters on a chalk board.

Oh… And we did an experiment inspired by mommy drawing out an experiment we did a while back of how does water and oil affect how things float or sink. When I’m feeling more brain awake I’ll try to write out the experiment and what we found interesting about it.

We had fun just playing as well. Good to do things like that. 🙂

What we Learned today – January 27, 2011

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George Washington unit study from Amanda Bennett’s Unit Studies.

We did parts of day one and day two. We learned his favourite subject, the story of the cherry tree, where he was born and much more. Lots of drawing and gluing today. 🙂

We also learned that Virginia has a state fish! We thought that was funny. 🙂

Later on we played with Lego. Then the lad chose to work on building a cat trap… an invention out of his own head. When he was done that we listened to three books from this site, and then listened and answered questions about two different books. MightyBooksJr looks to be an interesting site and I am happy that a fellow homeschooler directed me to it.

Our exercise for the day was tobogganing at the Pinery and our first attempt at skating. 🙂

St. Mary’s Museum

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Yesterday we went to the St. Mary’s Museum with a part of our homeschool group HOPE.

We learned about the toys that children used to play with.

We learned they played with marbles “Ring Taw”, slappers (metal toys that made noise), corn husks dolls, wooden dogs, thumatrope, and zoetropes. Hoops and graces were another game. These games often had the side benefit of teaching important skills of hand-eye coordination, body-eye coordination and so forth. Skills important to survival. Tops was also a game they used to play.

They also had these really neat wind-up toys that were a big hit with the children.

The children all had a chance to make their own thumatrope.

Yesterday and Today

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This week we’re going to work on lesson two of this kindergarten curriculum book. I’m starting to teach him the “I’m a little teapot” song which actions. It’s a good “T” letter song and the focus this week in the letter “T”, the Number “0” and something else I can’t recall at the moment.

and we did another five pages in this book on Tuesday. Matching of upper and lower case. We did this in the basement as that’s where our alphabet chart is. he pretended he was a little rabbit learning the alphabet and that I was the teacher rabbit. Made it fun for him. 🙂

Yesterday for exercise we did Cardio Fit by Billy Blanks Jr.

I’m doing two things with Cardio Fit. I’m trying to teach the lad that through perseverance that he can master any skill he sets his mind to, and get us exercising and using our bodies. After we finished exercising…which involved moving and twisting our bodies and stuff…hard work, The lad played with some building toys while I did my back and stretching exercises.

Then it was time to go to a funeral.

Today I have bible study in the morning, so the lad will go to story hour where he will play, hear a bible story, and make a craft. I can’t recall what we’re doing for bible study.

This afternoon we are going to be busy! We have time at a museum in St. Mary’s with the homeschool group, and then off to London so I can get my shears and then go the children’s museum there for an hour or so. Busy day, but tomorrow is a stay at home day so it will all be good. 🙂