week 11 Friday

Home schooling trip to the Rocky Shore

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This was the high light of our week

all the children had fun climbing over the rocks exploring and looking at all the sea creatures and I was excited too when My Home Schooler developed his friendship more with Colin (changed name to protect privacy)

(Submitted this to this new home schooling meme. Click on the picture and join in)

when we got home we read this internet page

phonics

reading

Had his home schooling friend over to play again

went to swimming

week 11 Thursday

Bible study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

writing

English Little house study reading comprehension, discussed lyeing and the story of crying wolf. Looked at a cradle Pa used for cutting the grain on the internet.

Maths adding, subtraction, multiplication, $$, tally marks,

Science Little house study Researched Bees.

I read this article to My Home schooler http://www.honey.com/downloads/storyofhoneyweb.pdf

using this website http://www.honey.com/consumers/kids/honeyfiles.asp learnt about bees doing worksheets on honey bee biology and society. Covering these topics – the bees body and head, life cycle, stinging apparatus (told My Home schooler what would happen to my sister when she was stung), the difference between the bees, their duties, bees dances, hives. Also researched to find out where and what bee glue is.

Lastly watched UTUBE one video about the bees dance and this other one

My home schooler went for a bike ride

Sea Scouts tonight

week 11 Wednesday

Bible study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

writing

English Little house study reading comprehension, discussed how isolated Lauras life must have been compared to My Home schooler and how far they had to travel to town. Comparing how far they had to go in terms he could understand. Illustrated some of his short stories – hes written with Anne and I

Maths adding, subtraction, multiplication, weighting

paper ANZAC day

art something from your closet

plant/bible/Art (pictures of “The Sower”) unit – read Mark4:3 – 8 and discussed

then looked at this site and labeled the parts of a flower and a plant

Geograpahy

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week 11 Tuesday

play group

maths adding, subtraction, $$, times tables, time line and area

Anne

week 11 Monday

Bible Study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

writing

English/Science/art Little house study reading comprehension, looked at a blog that talked about maple sugar making as we read about this morning, researched the tracks that Pa showed Laura and printed them out and put in our nature book, then we started making a tin light.

Maths subtraction and $$addition

Art Finished making the Tin Light

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This is what our carrot plantings look like today day 10

the Tabernale as we saw in the bible book we were studying the other day

PE/Maths

walk and number search – we made a blank 50 number chart then as we went around My Home Schooler had to find the numbers to write on his chart. I wrote where we found them

week 10 Friday

Bible Study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

English Little house study/cooking

reading comprehension

we made maple candy

English My Home Schooler has just finished reading “The Cat in the Hat comes Back” to me so he did this book report with me.

Maths adding subtraction $$ multiplication

swimming

Had a home schooling friend to play/hang out, have dinner then My Home Schooler went to the friends youth group

week 10 Thursday

Bible Study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

English reading comprehension, read “Ten Facts About Bears” to my home schooler as he pasted a picture of a bear into our nature book (like Lauras we made the other day), then we discussed this while I wrote some of it into the nature book. Heard a bear growl

Maths adding subtraction $$ Multiplication

bible study our church floor plan

science animal study made a word sleuth

did some more on our nature book – looked at panthers and added the black bears paw prints

ball handling skills

tonight youth group

week 10 Wednesday

Bible Study

Reading

Phonics

Spelling

English/history/maths Little house study

looked at a picture of the house that Laura lived at in this part of her story and a look at what their dog would have looked like

time line put it both events from the house and nz events

looked at an internet page about the history of the New Zealand stamp and learnt that people use to pay for the pages in a letter before stamps. That if one wrote more than one page they paid more. They didnt have envelopes because that would be classed as another page

Maths adding subtraction multiplication $$

Cooking cheese on toast for lunch

bible study dictated favorite food, chore list, favorite chore and free time activity

History paper ANZAC day

art leaf for

music pas fiddle songs as we read about this morning money musk,the devils dream, arkansas traveller, nellie gray

week 10 Tuesday

playgroup

maths adding subtracting $$ muliplication

Anne

week 10 Monday

Home schooling on the go – I had a sinsus infection so we went with Mr Wonderful and home schooled as we went today

At our first stop we did Bible Study

Reading

At nana and poppas we did phonics and writing

then in the car we did maths months of the year, addition, subtraction, multiplication, $$ study

Science animal study

ANZAC study for sea scouts started researching for this

As I learnt in teachers college this can be seen as maths. Our Home schooler washed the dishes and did maths at the same time