I think I'm really starting to get a "hand" on this having fun with school thing!  We are truly having so much fun, and I'm building a learning relationship with my children that I have never had before.  This is very exciting and freeing to me!  At the end of our school day today, the kids came and asked me if they could take some old math workbooks and writing sheets and go "play school?"  Ok, trust me, in our house, that speaks for something!  Not every day is going this smoothly and well, but we are definitely headed in the right direction with our learning.

Here is our day at a glance:

ROOT GARDEN:  We observed our root garden; discussed what makes them root vegetables and compared them to tubar vegetables (with help from the book - The Vegetables We Eat by Gibbons); and completed a journal entry page.

Alex's journal entry

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT:  We read a "water evaporation" lesson from the book Super Science Projects About Earth's Soil and Water by Gardner (this series of books are expensive, but I know why, they're great!); we did the really fun science experiment that went with the lesson; and completed a "Science Journal" entry page (I'll be attaching this file to my Files to Share soon).  The kids LOVED this experiment!

SCIENCE/NATURE:  We are going to be focusing on "Birds" for our Green Hour Challenge this week.  So we did an introduction by reading some from the Handbook of Nature Study, and discussed why we'd want to study birds. This lead to a great discussion about the Wright Brothers and how humans studied birds when developing airplanes, and also how God uses His creation in nature to teach us lessons and to show Himself to us.  Hannah also made a cover for her new nature binder (3 ringed), and transferred her other journal into it.  We were using a spiral bound book before, but that did not work well because you couldn't add any regular pages into it.

HISTORY/BIBLE:  We read lesson #58 from Mystery of History on "Nebuchadnezzar II and the Hanging Gardens."  And placed our timeline figure on.

MATH:  We did a lesson from the book Math Adventures - Rocket to the Moon by Clemson (excellent series of math books).  This lesson also included great information on the Moon.  Also they played two Math logic games.  Also they played one online Math game to practice their facts.

AND now, as I type this they are watching a Discovery Channel documentary on the human body with Dad.

...one day at a time.