Liam built a handheld catapult for a recent homeschooling challenge…
…and proceeded to shoot raisins all over the house with it!
Harry eats Cheerios with a certain flair, don’t you think?
The boys enjoy a jam session in the yard.
Harry’s train obsession continues.
Liam and another homeschool challenge, this time to build a waterwheel. This one works, but becomes [...]
The man had a cat. Sam had a cat. The cat sat on the man and on Sam.
Mat is a dog. Sam is a dog. Mat and Sam are dogs.
Mom nods at Dot and at Tom.
What?
Oh, nothing. Those are just sentences that Liam has been reading to me lately.
As you know, we’ve decided to focus on “the sky” for our next 6-8 weeks of nature study. Although this was initially an overwhelming prospect for me, I’ve gained a little perspective over the last few days and think I’ve come up with a list of areas to work from that will satisfy [...]
Challenge 4 encouraged us to choose a focus for our nature study. Trees, or flowers, or mammals, or birds, or insects…. you get the idea. The idea is to find one area to focus on for 6-8 weeks and foster real familiarity with that topic. I had a few suggestions to offer [...]
Yesterday we were all geared up for another nature walk. This challenge’s assignment was to find something that piqued Liam’s interest, observe it, and hopefully follow that up with a drawing in his nature notebook. The walk started out well, and he showed some interest in a number of different birds we saw [...]
Today the kids and I took a walk along the canal to complete #2 of the Outdoor Hour challenges. This time the focus was using words to describe what we see, hear, and feel. It was supposed to be a quiet walk, in which we could really concentrate on our observations. Unfortunately, [...]
I was thrilled this past weekend to stumble across the Handbook of Nature Study blog’s Outdoor Hour Challenge. Nature Study is something I’ve really wanted to incorporate into our homeschool, but I’ve been a little lost as far as how to get started. I grew up out in the country, but I was [...]
Liam’s feeling much better. I figured on Wednesday that he was feeling more his old self, when he decided to start fighting with me about everything! Up til then he hadn’t had the energy to argue. Poor little guy.
Speaking of behavior, we’re working on that. Liam now has a “good behavior [...]
0640 — Harry wakes me up by smacking me in the face. At some point in the night (2:30? 4:30?) he woke up and I brought him into our bed and nursed him back to sleep. I try the same again to gain myself a few precious more moments of rest, but [...]
Liam updates: Liam and I are really beginning to settle into a pattern with his schooling. I think we’ve found a good balance — enough actual “school” for me to be able to track and show progress and feel like I’m doing what I ought to be, but still plenty of time for playing, [...]