Unfortunate Circumstances

June 4, 2008

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Term 2 Tuesday Week 5

June 3, 2008

Playgroup My home schooler rode his bike there and back. He provided the morning tea and he also colead the music time. He took part in the art activity too

Maths adding subtraction multiplication geometry (got the geometry part from here)

unfortunity wordpress is having problems posting photos so to see what we made youll need to visit my flickr

Anne rode his bike there and back

went to a computer meeting with Mr Wonderful


Term 2 Monday Week 5 Day Off Holiday

June 1, 2008

My Home Schooler went up the road today on his bike and we cooked scones a batch for Mr Wonderful and a batch for playgroup tomorrow


This weekend

May 31, 2008

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Helped with BBQ at church garage sale for an hour

Then spent today until lazy-sunday-link-logothumbnail.jpg 4 pm at a sleepover at


Term 2 Friday Week 4

May 30, 2008

bible

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

English/History

little house on the prairie study

Minnesota Massacre

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication

swimming my home schooler rode his bike there and back

cooking for tomorrow

youth group “boat building” (the others are sailing them tomorrow but we will have to do it another time)


Term 2 Thursday Week 4

May 29, 2008

Bible

Field Trip to Te Mata Peak Fossil Hunting we tramped down into the fossil area

My Home Schooler walked all the way down Te Mata Peak Road

He reckoned it was too scary driving up (it was!! I nearly lost my nerve twice)

Library

Sea Scouts


Term 2 Wednesday Week 4

May 28, 2008

Bible

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

Little House Study Science/English geese

reread the pages about geese from “Little House on the Prairie” then watched this video and then read and discussed this page

wrote down what My home schooler learnt about geese and stuck that a picture into the nature book

we finished this the other day too

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, time

Art

this weeks theme key

Music listened to the instruments on Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s instrument page and choose one or two instruments from each family got my Home schooler to describe how they sound - got this idea from Christine when she wrote it here

My Home Schooler also made a musical instrument that reminded me of the rain

science

started reading The Earth by Roger Coote

went to a friends to play


Term 2 Tuesday Week 4

May 27, 2008

play group rode there and back on his bike

Science yesterday we made frizzle stones they had to harden over night then today we put them vinegar and watched the fun of them frizzling

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, $$

Anne rode there and back on his bike


Term 2 Monday Week 4

May 26, 2008

reading

phonics

spelling

writing

English

Little House Study

reading comprehension

read a easier version of these 2 webpages

maleria

and this one too

finished reading “Inside Laura’s Little House”

Bible

Maths addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions

Technology cooking

and made beef jerky

Science

finished reading “How Big is it” and looked at some of the things mentioned on the Internet

made Fizzle Stones

tomorrow we get to dissolve them

Art

made and painted with Microwave Puff Paint

abstract

a portrait of Our Little Man


Saturday/Sunday

May 25, 2008

Saturday

This afternoon My Home Schooler went to a local church where the youth group met.

They had a sleepover and ate a maize kind of porridge for dinner and its left overs for breakfast this morning

The event was because of the 40 hour famine

They themed their get together on South Africa because that is where the $$ is going and because the youth group leader is South African

The boys made these cool toys

The hand piece really makes the ‘car’ steer

and the girls made corncob dolls (later I reminded My home schooler that Laura had one of those)

My Home Schooler slept in a cardboard box and he and the youth group leader apparently kept one of the girls awake with their snoring LOL

Sunday after church

My Home Schooler got creative

He also played with our stencils