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A School Day Planned

A day when mom’s away

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Today I had a whole bunch of work to do out of the house.

I conferred with my lad this morning over the tasks he would complete over the day.   I wasn’t sure what time I would be back, but trusted him to get things done while Dad got a few things done around the house.

Before I left my lad volunteered to shovel the drive and bring in the garbage bins.   He was so quick about it I couldn’t get a pic of working away.  He did a good job too.   The selfish part of me, as I got into the car was thinking, “I have to teach that boy to clean off the cars too!”  Yeah… I know!  Selfish!A homeschooling day when Mom's Away

Anyways, I headed out to do the work I had to get done, leaving my lad heading into “build a cat toy that bounces” for his “build something or tear it apart time”.

He didn’t quite succeed in making a cat toy that bounces but he built a toy that intrigued Milo a lot and Lizzie a wee bit.

 

and Here’s Miss Lizzie, sorry for the occasional poor video quality.  She wasn’t quite as certain as Mr. Milo.

He washed some fleece blankets for me as well.  He was supposed to dry them as well… but.. making this got into his mind instead.

Flybird bird. Tinker crate building box.He did his reading.  Right now he’s reading “Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein”.  He tells me “it’s good”.  I think for his next “school reading book” I’ll give him They Lost their heads  as a book to read.

And for a Do it Differently Friday I think he managed to keep himself pretty busy.

Transportation – Airplanes

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The lad and I will be starting to learn about transportation tomorrow. It will be our “September theme”. We won’t be looking only at transportation as we will take side trips into things that interest us. But tomorrow.. PLANES!

1. we’ll be building a sleath bomber and a camouflage airplane that we got at The Basics Shop.

2. We’ll be watching the “wright brothers on youtube”.

3. We’ll be learning about the different types of modern aircraft.

see this site Soaring the Skies and Types of Airplanes and how many types are there? DIY. and probably to me the most helpful site.Types of Airplanes.

Airplanes vary greatly in the size, structure, engines, and purpose.

Airship/Balloon, Glider/Sailplane, Powered airplanes, Helicopter/Rotorcraft, Autogyro/Gyroplane, Fixed Wing Bi-planes, Fixed Wing Monoplanes

I used this site to make a copywork sheet. I used these words: Land planes, Seaplanes, Amphibians, Vertical Takeoff and Landing, Short Takeoff and Landing and Space Shuttle. I wasn’t sure if I should do a trace and write, or a copy and write…so I printed off one of each and it’s all good. 🙂

What else will we do?

4. I hope to have him do some counting.

How many planes can you find in your hot wheels collection?

5. Then have him do some sorting of them and explain why he sorted them the way he did.

6. We’ll play battle because one can’t build planes that can be used for battle without actually having a battle! 🙂

and that will be it for a first day of homeschool. Oh… we’ll also do our normal.. we’re back in school so let’s go for a walk about. And if I can figure out how to build a rocket into the mix we’ll do that do, Supercharged Science has one that looks to be fun to do.