Adrianna’s latest science project – a Bubble Lamp from her Tinker Crate subscription.
Category: Homeschooling
Impromptu Music Lessons
After watching a parody of Bohemian Rhapsody with my girls tonight, I had to show them the original Bohemian Rhapsody video (one of my fave songs!) which led to us viewing several other great Queen songs, which led to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” which led to Vanilla Ice’s “Ice, Ice Baby” which […]
Bree’s Kindergarten Graduation
Celebrating with ice cream after Bree’s Kindergarten graduation today. (I bribed her to do her “1st grade, 1st grade” song. I knew that she knew the words and motions because we’d practiced at home, but that she would need some extra motivation to actually do them. So that is part of the reason we all went […]
Mountain Lab
Adrianna took an Outdoor Lab class at Summit, so in April she got to go to Mountain Lab at Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je . I volunteered as a chaperone so I could along, too. We had so much fun! Adrianna learned how to make a campfire, spent time on the climbing wall, and we both got to […]
Field Trip to Barr Lake
You might be a homeschooler if…
So the pizza delivery guy this week guessed that we were a homeschooling family based on the number of board games and books on the shelves that are visible from the front door. I told him that was only about HALF of our books, which is totally the truth! We have more books on the […]
Do-a-dot and Charting
Cate enjoys being involved in our school day. She doesn’t have the fine motor skills to circle things yet, but do-a-dot markers are perfect for practicing letter identification. Learning how to chart is more fun when you are marking/counting My Little Ponies.
Fun Manipulatives
Reviewing letters and putting them in order is more fun when they are in magnetic form. Bree loves these magnetic letters from Aunt Jess and Uncle Jeff. Bree also loves to line things up by type and also by the colors of the rainbow (and in the ORDER of the colors of the rainbow.) The […]
Learning About Orchestral Music
Each week, the girls and I read about a different composer and then listen to excerpts of their work or watch their pieces be played by an orchestra on Youtube. This week, it was Igor Stravinsky and his “Rite of Spring.” Adrianna liked the dissonance found in the piece and we were intrigued to learn […]
[Home]school
A glimpse of our first day of [home]school. Cate sat in on Bree’s lesson and didn’t want to stop!