Archive for the ‘School’ Category
I love these sweet, sweet days of “school” with a 3.5 and newly 5 year old. While I try to keep to a theme a week for us to study in school (and have been sharing a few of them the last few Friday’s) this week was a perfect example of why I love the [...]
Goal: To widen our experience with milk that humans drinks, to understand where milk comes from, to understand what types of milk are drank in other parts of the world, to understand which animals produce milk, and to understand what products are made from milk. Books used: Library books on farm life and mammals, Nourishing Traditions: [...]
In last weeks Thanksgiving for Kids post I shared several ideas we were going to be doing over the past week and this week to learn about Thanksgiving. I wanted to share this simple Thankful Turkey craft that we made for a couple of our friends. I used some old glass jars I had on hand, [...]
For school this week and next I am studying Thanksgiving with the boys. I have compiled the Thanksgiving lesson plan for the next two weeks to share with those that want to explain and do activities about Thanksgiving for kids. What is Thanksgiving – explaining it to kids I have the The Story of the Pilgrims [...]
Paddle to the Sea – chapters 24 – 27 Lesson Plans Chapter 24 – Along the Great River Using the boys plastic cowboy and Indians we reenacted the scene where the lady describes some of the happenings in the St Lawrence River (with quite a bit of embellishment – but had they been older we would have [...]
Paddle to the Sea Chapter 19-23 Activities Chapter 19 – Forest Fire We had just returned from a camping trip in the forest two days prior to reading this chapter so we talked about the importance of putting out camp fires. We also brainstormed other ways that forest fires would start. Chapter 20 – Through [...]
Paddle to the Sea chapter 15-18 Activities Chapter 15 – Dry Dock – In this chapter Paddle gets a new coat of paint and some other minor repairs done, so we talked about refinishing old things and freshened up one of their old and worn looking toys with a fresh coat of paint. Chapter 16 [...]
Paddle to the Sea Chapter 11-14 Activities Chapter 11 – Paddle Finds one end of Lake Superior – Read The Age of Steam {can’t find a copy of it online} and talked about freights, containers and moving commodities around the country. Chapter 12 – A Fish Story- Talked about fishing and various fish. They had been given [...]
I am using Paddle to the Sea by Holling Clancy Holling with my 3 and 4 year old sons for our “school” this year. Shared below are the activities we have done this week relating to each chapter. Related books and activities are geared towards the young ages of my own children but are easily [...]
On Monday Paul starts back at school and we decided to jump into a more structured school schedule with Judah and Wesley, starting on Monday too. Our plan is to home school our children because it lines up with our family goals and because it will be incredibly fun – for all of us! I have [...]
