Thanks to whomever did this spreadsheet. I found Progressive Phonics.
I know what the lad and I will be doing tomorrow. 🙂
Should prove interesting…..
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What We Learned Today – Magnets
Today I set the lad up with Magnets, iron filings, nails and what not. He took it from there.
Things the lad learned or that we talked about, not necessarily in the order learned/taught
1. water doesn’t change how a magnet acts
2. water doesn’t wash off iron filings
3. iron filings are fun to watch on paper – you can make them dance
4. iron filings will cling to a magnet and they are very sticky.
5. magnets can break easily if they are the stick type
6. magnets sometimes stick end to end and sometimes they don’t…sometimes they stick in the middle and sometimes to the side. (when I ask Justin if that is because of polarity he says yes)
7. nails sometimes jump up the side of a magnet while others just cling loosely and others stick very hard to the bottom of it and we don’t know why that is.
8. iron filings will rust.
9. magnets have a north and a south (but Justin doesn’t really get this at this point)
10. iron filings are very small…but they stick in long lines when they dance…it’s fun to make them move around in clumps. 🙂
Review: The Middle School Student Schoolhouse Planner
Middle School Student Schoolhouse Planner.
I was sent this e-book to review and I have to admit, they managed to impress me. They did. And quite frankly…most planners don’t really thrill me. It’s like I have this mental thing of “what can they give me that I can’t figure out on my own”? But this planner, indeed, it amazed me. Wow…they packed a WHOLE whack of things into this planner. Loads of calendar pages, planning pages, goal pages, conversion charts, and more. Basically…you name it…it will have it. It is packed with tidbits of information that every middle schooler needs to know. Very well done. I was quite pleased with this planner by the time I finished looking through it.
I have to admit that as a Canadian I was displeased with the amount of focus there was in the United States (as much as I expected it), but also as a Canadian I was very pleased that an American company had some focus on Canadians (three pages of info indeed!). 🙂
I would happily recommend this planner to anyone who wants to help their middle school scholar get their year organized.
Gymnastics
Today was the lad’s first day at Gymnastics. He was VERY uncertain about going. He was alarmed that I wouldn’t be in the same room as he was in, but he had fun! Hubby dear and I had fun watching him.
He tumbled and balanced and listened, and very occasionally acted like a complete goofball.
He does NOT know how to somersault yet. 🙂 We just grinned watching him try and how much absolute fun he had while doing so. 🙂
Gymnastics was held at the Forest City Gymnastics Club. He takes part in their kindergym program. It’s for 3-5 year olds. Most of his classmates were 3 years old, with a couple four year olds and then the lad at 5. 🙂 It was a good morning of learning and fun.
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
now THIS is a cool site. University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
Unit studies, teacher outlines, all types of project for 4H children to work on…and they provide it seems like everything except the physical stuff (aka…if doing a study on insects.. YOU have to catch the insects). 🙂
they made a little bike!!!
that you don’t have to pedal on
What We Learned Today: fanhawe pioneer village
On Thursday, Sept 9, we went to the pioneer village in London. One of the ladies from Kids Learning Connection booked a group visit to Fanshawe Pioneer Village. There were about 50 of us all told.
They split us into two groups for a tour. We saw different buildings.
The group that the lad and I were in saw an artists birth home, the brewery, the print shop and oh…some other building that I can’t remember. What can I say…short term memory problems. I do have pics so that will help with the memory. 🙂
At the artists birth home the lad enjoyed seeing of the old toys that children played with (an old wooden noahs ark), at the brewery going up and down those narrow stairs evoked comments of “I’m a bit scared here mommy”, and the print shop was fun because he could print off something by himself. He enjoyed that.
Anyways, afterward the tour they had a time to play 19th century games: bean bag toss, ‘laces’, lawn bowling and tug of war. I helped win the tug of war for the small kids team. 🙂 Justin had a hoot playing bean bag toss. And then we did the pillory. The children had lots of fun pretending they were being punished for various things like stealing a loaf of bread, or breaking something.
When the main game time was over, the lad and I wandered around seeing the rest of the buildings. It was a fun day out for us.
An unexpected lesson for us: don’t carry loose batteries in your purse. IF they connect your purse will get very hot and you can melt a corner of one’s camera. NOT a fun experience.