Week Of March 5, 2012: Wrap Up

This week went by so fast for us! We enjoyed a few days of great Sping weather, and then of course a little snow. Here are some photos of our week.

                          Language
Ken is finishing up her book Meet Cecile. DJ is on chapter 13 in Holes and this week we discussed identifying conflicts in stories.

Using the moveable alphabet to practice syllabication.

Diagraming sentences. They are now ready for more advanced work in this area:)

Matching sentences to picture, the point of interest is reading cursive.

Working on wrting paragraphs, this is a begining work for DJ.

                           Geography

Land and Water Forms three part cards.

Placing Children From Around The World on the appropiate continent.

                                                    Africa Continent box.

Labeling Africa. DJ also worked on labeling the North America map puzzle.

                   Geometry/Mathematics

                                                    Labeling a triangle.

More rounds of basketball while practing math facts.

                                                        Study of lines.

                                                          Types of triangles.

                                          Substraction using the beads.

                                             Division bead board.

Division story problems with the Stamp Game.

                             Sciences

                                            Bird definition set.

                                                      Making lip balm.

Oobleck! DJ did this experiment until the box of cornstarch was gone:)

Planting cat grass for dioramas.

Learning about Mohs' Hardness Scale.

Experimenting with ways to make the best volcanoe eruptions.

Identifying human body parts.

                    Our Classroom Outdoors

Checking temperatures at different locations.

                                                Discovering Natures' Wonders.

                                                 Feeding the ducks.

                        Links To Share
I really enjoyed reading "B" is for "Being Fun" at Journey To Excellence lets just say this momma knows how to bring excitement into their homeschool days, I especially like all of Dawson' science experiments. If your looking for a hands on way to get your preschool aged kids reading and writing check out Two Language Works at What Did We Do All Day? Looking for a boredom buster? Try this science experiment using household materials Germ Experiment-Where Do Germs Grow in Your House? at The Homeschool Den. For those who have younger learners, I would like to encourage you to pop over and see what the preschoolers have been up to on my other blog The Work Plan . Interested in the Montessori Method ? Want to know more about what inspires us here? Visit Living Montessori Now and check out all the archives!!

Last but not least if you want to take a peek into other homeschoolers' week visit The Weekly Wrap-Ups hosted by Weird, Unsocalized Homeschoolers.

Daily Report: Pajama Day(for DJ)

The kids only worked in the morning today. Since our weather is changing daily from very warm, to very cold the kids are still coughing and sneezing. DJ declared today was a Pajama Day! I agreed if only I could of kept mine on too:)

Landforms three part cards.

More human body work.

Bird definition set part 3

Geometry Cabinet command cards work.

Labeling North America. The last picture pretty much sums up how DJ was feeling today.

Daily Report: The Sun Is Shining

The weather was nice, and it energized these two kids!! As usual we started our day with reading and finished up the chapters we started on yesterday.

Started on the dioramas for the dinosaurs, and animals in the Savannah by planting Cat Grass.

Volcanoe eruptions,and coloring a diagram of a volcanoe.

Triangle three part cards.

Africa continent box.

Successfully put together the model of the hand!!

Testing the hardness of rocks. DJ really enjoyed this and loved looking at the Moh's Scale of Hardness.


With the sun shining we had to take the learning out doors.

Equipped with gear to find new discoveries.

Using a field guide to determine the name of the rock.

Found a pod.

Counting tree rings.

When we made it back from our walk DJ started dissection work with the beans.

Diagramming sentences.

Doing syllabication work with spelling objects and moveable alphabet.

Solving square roots.

Review time in the Geometry workbook that DJ has been doing.