Today is another organically-unfolding home school day. We started off the day reading some books. The last book we looked at was a comic. After reading the comic, we started discussing the elements of a comic, the teamwork of artists, writers and editors, and the planning stages of a comic. Next, we learned how to…
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Busy Brains
I find it interesting to note that today, spring-boarding entirely from the boys’ questions and ideas, we discussed: Bacteria, probiotics, overcoming obstacles, prefixes, opposites, Antarctica, monarchies, democracy, language origins, clouds, weather, God, miracles, ATMs, banks, charity, prices, and a number of other things I can’t pull up in my memory at the moment. I think…
Home Made Marshmallows
During our third day of home school, we decided to make home made marshmallows. I found this recipe on Pinterest and decided to give it a whirl. I got out all the ingredients and measuring devices and had Ian (the others lost interest after the first scoop of sugar) do the measuring work (I sneaked…
We’re Official
Yesterday (or was it Sunday?), we started our first day of *official* First Grade home school. Sunday, I submitted our online Declaration of Intent. I’ve had some apprehension about the start of school, being so torn between not wanting to do “school at home” and feeling pressured to stick to some standard objectives. Allow me…
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