This is a website that offers free unit studies.
I”m planning on doing this fall season one.
They are geared for the 4-8 year old crowd.
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I’m trying to get the world history course. 🙂
Epikardia has just released their second grade daily lessons curriculum.
For those of you clamoring for Second Grade Daily Lesson Plans – Set I is here! As with all of our Daily Lesson Plans, our Second Grade plans organize the study of history into nine chronological units integrated with:
- language arts (reading, spelling, vocabulary, literature study, narration, copy work, poetry, simple dictation, etc.)
- science
- fine arts (picture, artist and music study)
The making of a volcano
our supplies: vinegar, baking soda, sand around a bottle, and food colouring
adding colour to the vinegar so we can see it better
adding baking soda to our bottle
Learning that baking soda does NOT taste good. 🙂
Let me! Let ME do it!!!!
Mommy!!!!
look!!!! it bubbles mommy!!!!
See the cars like it too! they can’t get past this (can’t remember what he called it)
this is just too exciting mommy!
time to just explore with vinegar, baking soda and toysHe played with everything for a good hour after we were done the experimentation part. Just too much fun.
Gasses go big! they Explode! They make bubbles!!! 🙂
Various things from around the blog
Rosetta Stone – language people. having a sale right now.
Youngzine is a free online news website for children that presents current events in politics, science & technology, environment, and society through articles, pictures and videos without the risk of running into inappropriate or sensational content.
What to Know how tootsie rolls are made? Check this out.
Learn Sign Language!
Math and Movies.
Many of the students in today’s secondary (and college) classrooms grew up watching attention-grabbing, action-packed educational programs. These students now spend more hours in front of a video screen than they do reading books. No wonder students may find traditional mathematics education to be dull and boring.
So, what can mathematics educators do to compete in this exciting and captivating world of technology? The answer seems to be simple: embrace technology in the classroom. Rather than lament the disinterest of students, use any and all forms of technology to grab and retain their attention. Consider presenting mathematical content (not watered-down content) in a variety of educational styles.
Great Migrations by National Geographic, this site just looks fascinating. 🙂
National Geographic Channel’s Great Migrations is a seven-part global programming event that takes viewers around the world on the arduous journeys millions of animals undertake to ensure the survival of their species.
Check out the History Channel. I watched the ice trucks one today, and found it quite interesting.
Charlotte Mason grammer information. Have to admit, it makes sense to me. A gentle grammer and a week of gentle grammer.
Busy HomeSchool Day
I have to admit, ALL I wanted to do today was veg, just totally veg.
but I couldn’t allow that so… I kept myself busy with my lad. Still felt like I was dragging through the day. I totally spread this out over the course of the entire day.
1. did a craft/poem thing with the lad. I had to cut things out, he helped me glue them on. He read the poem several times.
2. did some math in a kindergarten math book. Just five pages. He enjoyed it.
3. did some experiments.
a. one didn’t work. We’ll try it again, using a different pop bottle and a bigger base bowl.
b. Seal with air
He had fun with this one.
We started with a small glass with a piece of cardboard, and upgraded to a piece of note paper. Once he exhausted the various ways to do this (full glass, half glass, turn fast, turn slow etc) He started to experiment with paper and water. Everything from adding food colouring to test out what happens when you mix what, to can you block a drain with cardboard and a glass, and including what happens if you add dish detergent to water (it goes colourless in case you didn’t know).
c. Make a volcano
If he had fun with the previous one….this was way over the top. Just plain fun. Mommy forgot to read the instructions the first time so we had to correct my error (and the lad had a chance to laugh at mommy’s forgetfulness). Had to call gramma to see if she had everything he need to do this all over again at her house. 🙂
We organized his stuff today. One binder for experiments, one for unit studies, and one for art work. Helps to keep things neater.
Sketch Tuesday – something that floats
I was going to do a feather.
What are you going to draw mommy?
I think I’ll do a feather.
no, a boat.
I think I’ll do a feather
NO, a boat mommy, you should draw a boat.
So.. you think I should do a boat huh?
YES!
So.. well…I drew a boat.
There’s a story to this boat. It is a bunnytown boat. and the bunnies are fishing for cats. Can you see all the cats in the water? they are being fished for. This is a ladder going up to what.. I’m sorry.. I can’t remember. But there is a guard rail so the bunnies can’t fall off the boat.
Catching up….
Justin and I submitted sketches for this weeks Sketch Tuesday. We were to draw something with whiskers. I initially did a picture of “daddy with whiskers”, but on query from my lad, did a face of Milo the cat instead. yes, I am a horrid artist, but hey… at least I submitted something 🙂 Next week…something that floats. Justin was very excited about this one and immediately drew something. 🙂 I am still thinking about what I want to draw for this assignment.
Today we did the first day of the Terrific Tigers Unit study/lapbook from Download N Go. I have a cat crazy lad so spending the $8.00 for this item was a no brainer. He had fun doing the first section. We didn’t do it ALL (as in what day one called for), he’s five and this is a multi-age study. So you have a child who can do some, do what he can, dictate what he can, and leave the rest.
As to the study itself I found that it’s well done. I have to say, I would have no problem getting some of their other products. 🙂 I enjoyed doing the day one of this five day study with him.
I have a fairly electic approach to homeschooling, I see value in doing a variety of things, and having a five year old lad gives me some sway in how I do things. I am hoping to start doing some latin with him at some point….But I think I might leave that in his dad’s purview, his dad is more the language person in this household, though I’ll probably get roped into it…..
What else…today we went to the library to get tiger books…they had ONE (a bit of a bummer that), we had plans to stop in and see one of the seniors in the old folks home, but forgot after playing with trains to do that… went to the dollar store to get a drink instead. but you know what? …tomorrow is another day, always lots to do in the course of a single day.