I am still enjoying schooling Adrianna at home. Our current curriculum is very literature based, with lots of reading aloud by me. Many of the books are Usborne books, which I have fallen in love with. Usborne also has a website that offers many links to fun activities to go along with what we are learning in history or science.
I have decided that the internet, Google and a printer are a homeschooling mom’s best friend. There are so many resources available, many of them free. I also have a few blogs that I follow, written by other homeschool moms, that have been a source of valuable information and fun ideas. Almost every day we have incorporated a worksheet, color sheet or something else I find online to supplement, review or expand upon what we are learning in our actual school books.
Today, Adrianna did this fun turkey math project. (At least I thought it was fun!) I found the turkey and the feathers online, printed them out and cut out all the feathers last night. Each turkey had a number on it. Each feather had a math problem. She had to glue each feather to the appropriate turkey which contained the correct number/answer to the math problem on the feather. And isn’t it fun that it is a turkey since Thanksgiving is coming up? Thank you, internet!
Okay, so this picture doesn’t have anything to do with the fun turkey math project, I just liked her cool hat that she made at her homeschool enrichment class on Tuesday.
Cute! I highly recommend the game “Sleeping Queens” for her. You get number cards and action cards and basically trade in number cards to take more from the deck in hopes of getting some good action cards (ex: kings allow you to pick up queens; sleeping potions and knights allow you to take away other people’s queens; wands and dragons defend your own queens). The related part to this post is that you can trade in more than one card if you can make a number relationship out of them. So you could trade in a (2,3,3,8) and get 4 new cards if you point out that 2+3+3 = 8. It’s been fun for Katie to practice her math facts that way by looking at a hand with, say, (2,3,2,5,9) and practicing in her head to figure out what combinations are possible. (2+3=5; 2+2+5=9; and that nothing else works)
Can I come to your school? It looks like fun!