We have made it back from our incredibly hectic trip to visit our family in Southwest Oklahoma! Once upon a time, my husband thought there was nothing in Oklahoma except wind and flat land (and maybe some tepees), so I thought I’d spotlight our adventures in Oklahoma to show that, yes, there are things to do in […]
Paper Castle, Paper Theatre and Other Paper Toys
About six months ago, we came across two of the most amazing free websites for building paper models: Papertoys.com and Thetoymaker.com – all you need is to print, cut, fold and glue. Having boys that love to build things (and being that way myself), we’ve already incorporated many of the paper toy models we’ve found at Papertoys.com into our learnings. The […]
Quick math lesson: Geologic Geometry
We found ourselves out at the creek again looking for rocks. (We have a habit of doing this. My pockets are always crammed full of rocks by the time we get back in the house…) What did we find? Let’s take a look: We found POLYGONS (i.e., flat shapes with three or more straight sides)!! a square: […]
Creeks, forts, stones and bones
It was a lovely day to take a hike through the woods and up the ridge (ahem…only part of the way, though, since Levi was on my hip). On the way up, we added a few animal bones to our bone collection at Fort Bones. No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post. […]
S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G
We’ve been using a variety of resources for language arts this year, so it follows that we also have used a few different programs for spelling. As I mentioned in a previous post, the spelling lists in Total Language Plus are from the work of literature being studied, so they were not grouped by rules. […]
What language are you speaking?
We plan to use Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) and Essentials of the English Language next year as part of our involvement with a classical homeschool community. But this year has been a year of testing some language and spelling programs as we also incorporate our own literature unit studies, since it was too […]
Metric Olympics & Egg Experiments
Though we didn’t quite get to do all the science experiments we had planned to do during our Super Science week, we did have a really fun time studying some fundamentals of physical science: the metric system, force, motion, and speed. To gain a better understanding of the metric system, we went on a metric scavenger hunt, measuring […]
World Wars and Geography
Though we haven’t gone into much detail regarding the World Wars, we are learning about the countries and world leaders during World War I and World War II, so I thought we’d touch on geography a bit here. When given the opportunity, Stephen likes to choose what to study (who doesn’t?!?), and, since he LOVES […]
Island of the Blue Dolphins Unit Study
Last week we finished reading Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, a work of historical fiction based on a true story of an American Indian woman who spent 18 years in isolation on San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. (Read more about the true story […]