Oct. 20, 2007
Pumpkin Patch
Well, being in FL we don't have a wide variety of "Pumpkin Patches" to go to. We found a cute one at a local church. Not exactly what those up north would call a Pumpkin Patch, as these pumpkins were just all laid out in nice neat rows on crates.
It was fun none-the-less and the boys found some good pumpkins. We also found out about a Harvest festival being held at that church next weekend, so we may be attending that as well.
Here's a picture of my little guys on the hay throne:
Thursday we're having a Carving Party here with our other homeschooling friends, so that should be interesting, to say the least.
It was fun none-the-less and the boys found some good pumpkins. We also found out about a Harvest festival being held at that church next weekend, so we may be attending that as well.
Here's a picture of my little guys on the hay throne:
Thursday we're having a Carving Party here with our other homeschooling friends, so that should be interesting, to say the least.
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Oct. 19, 2007
First Finished Lapbook!
Well we have now officially finished our first lapbook. Train-boy had a lot of fun with it, and it was great to stay with the same topic for a couple of weeks so he could really grasp all the concepts. He even started telling Daddy about how the bees pollenate the flowers so they can grow into apples.
We were lucky enough to see some orange trees at Walmart the other day that actually had oranges on them, so we ended up having our science lesson at Walmart, how funny! Daddy pointed out how most fruit gets it's color when it is ready to be eaten, and the oranges on the tree were green because they weren't ready yet.
Here is the second half of our lapbook:
I started going through Letter of the Week with my Little-one. He's not grasping much, but what can I expect.... he's 2! I'm not pushing him or anything, just trying to introduce the letters and concepts more than have him learn them.
We were lucky enough to see some orange trees at Walmart the other day that actually had oranges on them, so we ended up having our science lesson at Walmart, how funny! Daddy pointed out how most fruit gets it's color when it is ready to be eaten, and the oranges on the tree were green because they weren't ready yet.
Here is the second half of our lapbook:
I started going through Letter of the Week with my Little-one. He's not grasping much, but what can I expect.... he's 2! I'm not pushing him or anything, just trying to introduce the letters and concepts more than have him learn them.
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Oct. 17, 2007
Starting our Homeschool Journey
Well it's been a few weeks since we started homeschooling train-boy and we're loving every minute of it. We've tried a few different co-ops and I think that we finally found a couple that will work.
I've been meeting up with my friend B and her 2 little boys for a co-op once a week. We've been letting the boys do show and tell, we've been playing games like Duck, Duck, Goose and of course doing some schoolwork. This has been working out great because our boys get along wonderfully. Train-Boy and Little-one love B too, Little-one always runs straight to her and gives her a huge hug.
B and I have started doing lapbooks together. A lapbook is basically a unit study displayed inside a file folder (or 2) it's been a lot of fun! Here's the first half of Train-boy's apple lapbook. He's really gotten a kick out of doing this and what a great way to learn!
We've also just started a new co-op at one of our local churches. It was the first week last week and it went really well. Now they are wanting to change the class that Train-boy is in, so we're going to try it out one more time and see how it goes. Train-boy loved the first day and learned so much! I would just hate to take him somewhere that is going to rehash all the stuff he already knows. So like I said we're going to try it out again and just see how it goes.
I've been meeting up with my friend B and her 2 little boys for a co-op once a week. We've been letting the boys do show and tell, we've been playing games like Duck, Duck, Goose and of course doing some schoolwork. This has been working out great because our boys get along wonderfully. Train-Boy and Little-one love B too, Little-one always runs straight to her and gives her a huge hug.
B and I have started doing lapbooks together. A lapbook is basically a unit study displayed inside a file folder (or 2) it's been a lot of fun! Here's the first half of Train-boy's apple lapbook. He's really gotten a kick out of doing this and what a great way to learn!
We've also just started a new co-op at one of our local churches. It was the first week last week and it went really well. Now they are wanting to change the class that Train-boy is in, so we're going to try it out one more time and see how it goes. Train-boy loved the first day and learned so much! I would just hate to take him somewhere that is going to rehash all the stuff he already knows. So like I said we're going to try it out again and just see how it goes.