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Sketch Tuesday – something that floats

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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….

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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.

Door’s Open London

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As a family we took in four of the sites to doors open London.

We went to the agricultural center, the train club, the HMCS Provost and the Secrets of Radar Museum.

It was good. We ALL learned lots. Justin had fun.

He had to answer three questions at each site.
1. What you remember,
2. what you learned,
3. what was the best.

In order
Agriculture center
– plants they were telling us about.
– plants can get diseases
– best thing was making smoke (dry ice, detergent and hot water).

Train Club
– (couldn’t remember anything) 🙂 —it was ALL trains so it’s not like you could pick anything out to really recall
– It was SO BIG!!!!
– “I wanted to see the whole thing”

HMCS Provost
– me and daddy were running around
– I could ring a bell REALLY loud
– Running around upstairs

Secrets of Radar
– Matching planes
– names of all the equipment
– Mommy telling me the names of all the equipment.

For those wanting a fuller picture of our day, go here.

What we Learned today : Paper Airplanes

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Today we experimented with different paper airplane designs.
We talked about wind currents and lift, but mostly had fun trying out four different designs of paper airplanes.

1. was easy and fun to do. It kept wanting to hit Milo. It did like to crash land though…particularly after we added stickers to it. 🙂

2. we didn’t like. It was too wobbly and didn’t fly straight. “it’s not a good plane mommy.”

3. was HARD to make. It’s supposed fly outside and it went far inside, but it was VERY difficult to make and I’m not convinced we made it properly.

4. was easy to make and fun to do with a boy child. It flew like the first one… long and far and kept wanting to scare Milo (the lad’s cat).

will add pics later. 🙂

The lad also did
on some book work. Copying letters and doing some early math. 🙂

BLue Spruce

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I asked our town librarian the other day if she could recommend books for our lad to read.

She said she couldn’t recommend a particular book as there are so many good ones out there, but that we should read some of the Blue Spruce books. Here are some titles to some Blue Spruce books.

From what I understand, Blue Spruce books are some of the best of Canadian authors in Children’s literature.
I do know that of the few we brought home today from the library our lad has enjoyed them immensely. They are a good read