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This Site is neat.

Gives all the math things that a child is to know in Kindergarten. Very neat. 🙂
it’s also very neat that they give examples of what they mean in case you have no earthly clue. (face it…kindergarten was a fair time ago). 🙂

Numbers and counting up to 3

Data and graphs

Probability

Vocabulary

The Gallon man

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I thought this was a good idea. Thought I’d share it with you too. 🙂 The Gallon Man.

Do you need a way to remember unit conversion effortlessly and forever? Or just a way to calculate how many cups there are in a gallon? Here’s how to figure it out. Draw a gallon man! First, draw a really big capital G. (This is the gallon.)
2010-06-01_1305 Inside the G, draw four big Qs. (These are the quarts.)
2010-06-01_1307 Inside each Q, draw two Ps. (These are the pints.)
2010-06-01_1308 Inside each P, draw two cs. (These are the cups.)
2010-06-01_1309 For the final flourish, draw an arrow to one of the cs and write “8 ounces.” (There are eight ounces in every cup.)
2010-06-01_1310…….. Gallon Man is totally visual and works for many learning styles. You can SEE how many quarts are INSIDE a gallon. Gallon Man is intuitive for all grade levels (unlike dimensional analysis, you don’t have to worry about the numerators or denominators). Gallon Man is practical. You can use it in your kitchen or in the grocery store. Gallon Man is easy to remember. And Gallon Man is fun to draw!

Terrific Tigers – Day Four

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Today we did day four of the terrific tigers unit study. You can buy it from download N go right here. 🙂 OR from the Old Schoolhouse.



Did you know that there are only 12-90 Amoy (South Chinese) Tigers left in the world? At the most there are 30 in the wild, the rest are in zoos or on reserves. The lad learned that this means that the amoy tiger is endangered.

Our bathroom is as long as a male south chinese tiger is long.

We had fun roaring through the house today. The lad went upstairs to each room and roared. I sat at the computer and listened. Then it was my turn. He stayed at the top of the stairs listening for my roar. He couldn’t hear me from the back bathroom. In the wild a tiger roar can be heard for 2 miles!

We had fun though a lad with a cold had a hard time staying on task today. 🙂 He’ll spend most of the rest of the day relaxing and rebuilding his energies. Lots of fluid and couch rest. 🙂

Teaching Finances

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These pages seemed geared to older students, and I couldn’t get all the links in some to work, but might be my browser (firefox).

Kids Money

As parents, you have a unique opportunity to give your kids a financial education. You can not only teach them skills but you can also let them learn from their own experience and develop sound habits that will last them a lifetime.

Financial on-line games.

The internet is filled with fun games that teach kids about money.

Financial Literacy Resources.

The Mint.

Some people call it financial literacy, personal finance or money management – but at the end of the day, it’s all about making the most of your money.

Sense and Dollars.

What We Learned this week – Oct 25-29.

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Well this week has been a good week thus far. Having a general outline/schedule is very helpful. 🙂

We did day three of of the unit study from Download N Go on Terrific Tigers.
We learned that Sumatran tigers have webbed feet, watched good videos, and just had fun learning about tigers. Justin made a mural of tigers on a mountain.

We started to work on Expedition Australia, we just got to the first part of day one. This is a harder study for a five year old lad. He’s currently working on colouring in the world map. There is a whole whack of information in it, he was fascinated by the giant clam in one of the first videos that we watched. This is also a DownloadnGo product.

We volunteered at the Rummage Sale for the local hospital. We were there for two hours and the lad helped with putting price tags on items and helping me sort out the cutlery.

He did gymnastics on Monday.

He did gym on Tuesday with the homeschool group. This was held at the Startford YMCA and costs $6 for 8 weeks. He had a hoot learning some kickboxing moves and playing hockey with the big boys.

On Wednesday he was part of Story Club while I was at bible study at the local Christian Reformed Church. We are studying the Psalms, they are working through creation (as far as I can tell). He made a great craft and learned more about Adam and Eve, how God made each one of us in his own image.

Today we’ll be making hallowe’en cupcakes and doing a study on Hallowe’en. The study called Happy halloween that we are doing is good for a variety of ages, and comes from the Simple Homeschool. It has a maze, copy work, listen and remember exercises and so forth. I like it, and the lad is looking forward to doing it.

I have to interject this.
My boyo sometimes makes me laugh. The maze had two friends looking for a path to the candy corn. So he drew two paths. One friend kept on going the wrong way (complete with “uh, wrong way” being muttered under his breath) and had to retrace his steps and then mommy had to help the other friend show the first friend which way to go (with comments of — yea!, see, this is how you go, see he’s helping my friend find the candy! YEA!! you helped me!!! (this last being the lost friend talking)). He just makes me chuckle. 🙂

we will also be doing this unit from Ingles on Hallowe’en. Oops…not this exact one, but one similar that has a game in it. Spooktacular letters that’s the one we are doing. 🙂

Pics of what we did today.
First you start with some muffins 🙂
then you make the icing, you start with a basic white icing and add food colouring… it looks like a lollipop as you mix it in. Much to the delight and interest of a five year old. we were aiming for black, but he thought grey was good too. 🙂

You add some smarties (sorry trick or treaters, you won’t be getting them).

the finished product, they all ended up with three “friend” smarties sitting with each other on top.
We brought two to our very nice neighbours who live next door to us. They are so kind to us that this was just a small thing for us to do for them, and they were simply delighted. 🙂

AND tomorrow he’ll be doing the last HOPE day with dad for the fall season.

HOPE meeting

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Tonight Hubby and I went to our first HOPE meeting. (group that we’re involved in)

Here’s the blurb I got

The topic for the evening is “Choosing the Better Thing”. John Gould will be speaking on how to keep Christ the centre of our homeschooling journey. Come out for a positive and encouraging evening designed to help us keep our focus on the priority of Christ in the middle of the busyness of life.

I thought it was a good message.

It was a good reminder of one of the biggest advantages we have as Christian homeschoolers….we have the whole day to point out God to our children. To show our children how we can bring glory to God in all that we do in our lives. 🙂

Schedule – October 24, 2010

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Trying to get more organized in the course of our days. We’ll see how it goes.
We sit down together and see what we can figure out.
Some things are set…gymnastics, bible study, gym time and HOPE, the rest is subject to the whimsies of life.

New will be a set getting up time, and a set going to bed time.

Plus we’ll be trying to have one full stay at home day.