Today was a good day for homeschooling.
At breakfast we did our normal reading
10 minute stories
Today’s story was about Rip Van Winkle. This story got an immediate thumbs down from the lad. Not sure why as I find it an interesting folk tale.
World History
We have started a section on Knights and Castles.
On with the rest of the day…we started later than anticipated, and went past lunch, but we had a good and interesting time.
While Homeschooling today, in the background I had playing various programs from Homeschool RadioShows. Not saying we listened closely, but every once in a while the lad would ask…is the boy safe mommy? Is the winter over? What happened to the ship?
We followed a plan again.
We started off the day talking about how our eyes help us do things. And then we drew a picture of a globe. Then I covered the paper up with a box with a hole cut into it and said…”draw the globe”. It was interesting to see how they came out…definitely not as good as when we could see what we were drawing. Then we tried with some simpler things…circles. boxes, triangles. and then with other ideas…pencil, bowl, plate. we made some observations
1. our eyes help us alot
2. if we practice we can get better at drawing without looking
3. not everyone has the same trouble drawing without looking…sometimes the lad could draw something better than mommy with or without looking, and sometimes mommy was better when she couldn’t see.
4. drawing without looking takes longer to do.
We did pages 172, 173-176 in numbers and counting. One page had him colouring bubbles a different colour depending on where they were in the counting line. For instance… 1-25 colour blue, 26-50 colour yellow, 51-75 colour red, and 76-100 colour purple. I thought this would be an easy reinforcing activity for him and was surprised at how much he struggled with it. Not sure how to build up his confidence in this area.
Word of the day: abbot – a leader of an abbey
Verse of the week: Eph 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Animal of the day: I had planned to do penguins. that was thoroughly nixed by the lad. he wanted to do SEA URCHINS! So we studied sea urchins. YEAH!! for the internet. Pages we found helpful: google images, enchanted learning, and a couple others. I always find it frustrating when website contradict each other so we basically just generalized. It was neat to look at this animal… but boy are they spikey! We found were some different sea urchins lived on the globe and practiced saying the names of the countries.
Did lesson 9 in First language lessons. This lesson involved looking at a picture and then talking about it. We figured out common and proper nouns to use with it.