Creating Family Traditions and Memories

Home School Curriculum program on Weather, Air and Storms

11:54 AM, Nov. 6, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

Come join us as we Explore our World @ the Library on the topics of Weather, Air and Storms for the next few weeks. We will cover things from wind, clouds, atmosphere, hurricanes, tornadoes etc.

Please feel free to join us virtually and post a comment on the blog as well about what you are learning at my home school curriculum blog. You will have access to another free download for this weeks topic as well to help you in your research and recording what you are learning.

Blessings,
Lori Arriaga

Weather Home School Curriculum

8:10 PM, Oct. 29, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

Our last Explore Your World @ the Library topic was on the Deserts. If you have anything you would like to share with us about what you learned about the Deserts of the World, feel free to post to our blog.

This week we will be Exploring Weather at the Explore your World @ the Library program for our home school curriculum. We will talk about different types of weather such as thunderstorms, frost, snowstorms, tornado's among many other things.

Please feel free to join us virtually and post a comment on the blog as well about what you are learning at my home school curriculum blog. You will have access to another free download for this weeks topic as well to help you in your research and recording what you are learning.

Blessings,
Lori Arriaga

Studying Rainforests in our Home School Curriculum

11:10 AM, Oct. 8, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

Last week we had our first Explore your World @ the Library program where we began our home school curriculum studying all about plants where we talked about the parts of the plant, what plants need to survive, photosynthesis, pollination among many other things.

This weeks topic is on the Rainforests. We will be learning about rainforest plants, animals of the rainforest, rainforest layers, why we should save the rainforest among many other things. Please feel free to join us virtually and post a comment on the blog as well about what you are learning at my home school curriculum blog. You will have access to another free download soon to help you in your research and recording what you are learning.

Blessings,
Lori Arriaga

Exploring our World @ the Library

12:09 PM, Oct. 1, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

This week I am excited and somewhat nervous as I will be starting a program at the library that I volunteered to do with my kids and other home schooled kids in the community to explore our world with resources found in the library as well the internet. We will be doing some hands on projects, encouraging lap booking, note booking as take home activities as well as having a sharing time each week for the kids to share an interesting fact they learned, a report they wrote, a project they did with the rest of the kids

The program I hope inspires kids to be more interested in science, nature and history and to learn how to find and utilize the vast resources in the library as well as the internet to do their research on the various topics we will be covering over the year.

Although this is a program I am doing in my community, I will also be posting each week at my Home School Curriculum website for you to follow along virtually if you'd like. Each week there will be free downloadable note booking pages to help you in the unit studies. If you do follow along, I'd love to hear from you and have you share what your learning by making a post at the website as well.

Blessings,
Lori

First week of Home School Woes

11:09 PM, Sep. 11, 2007 .. 1 comments .. Link

The week before school there was some excitement in the air looking forward to school to start but that excitement quickly wore off for both my kids. Once they realized they just couldn't go and play whenever they wanted anymore like they did all summer long, I began to receive some major attitudes and begging if they can just do their home school later.

I have made some changes in how we do home school this year in order to make learning more fun for them by doing more hands on projects instead of so much book work but it isn't unstructured play like they want it to be. Today was actually the first day I didn't receive an attitude with home schooling. I only hope it lasts throughout the rest of this year.

So how has your first week of home school gone? I'd love to hear to know I'm not alone.

7 Days and Counting Until the First Day of Home School

10:28 AM, Aug. 27, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

Wow, I can't believe summer is just about over. I love getting back into a routine of things with the school year and the fall colors but I never handle the colder weather too well. I am never without a sweater even in the middle of summer time.

Anyways, 7 days and counting until the start of the new home schooling year. My kids are both getting excited and I am as well since we are doing things a bit differently this year. We are creating our own curriculum according to my kids interests and not going to be doing so much book work except for our math but lots of reading and writing and learning lots of science, geography and history through Lapbooking and Notebooking pages in order to create keepsakes of their work.

I came across a great video on lapbooking that has helped me see how creative we can get with them (I'm creatively challenged and need all the help I can get) but my daughter on the other hand is the creative one and after watching the video she is excited to do her first one.

You can watch the video on YouTube titled "Lapbooking Fever"

Blessings,
Lori Arriaga
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Creating Family Traditions and Recording them for future generations

10:10 AM, Aug. 11, 2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

The older I get the more I realize how important it is to not only create family traditions but also record them. There are many ways to go about recording your family traditions through pictures, videos, scrapbooking and journal writing. I have taken many pictures in the past but have only managed to get some of them put into albums but still have never seemed to get them organized. Neither have I been a very creative person so scrapbooking was always out of the question for me.

Like I said though, the older I get, the more I realize how important it is to record our family traditions. I have always been more of a technical person and love to write so the digital recording of family traditions appeals to me much more.

With the new school year coming up and as a home school mom of two, I will need to make this more of a n ongoing family project in our home schooling agenda with me and my kids in order to ensure we record all those special family times we have. That way, I hope to also instill in my children the love and importance of passing on family traditions.

I decided to start this blog as a way to connect with other home school moms as well and to share some of our family traditions and homeschooling projects. I hope this family blog will be an inspiration to all who reads it.

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