The kids spent the better part of the morning creating a variety of machines from this book – some straight out of it, some from their imagination.
The one below was from their own imagination, many edits took place, the linking cubes were added as weight to make the pencil line darker. Lots of other tweaks were made as well.
While it’s disappointing when a fun toy breaks, being able to take it apart makes it less sad! Some time was spent taking apart this remote control car today. Ephraim got a few tools for Christmas and he’s been using them to take apart a number of different things. Now if we could just figure…
Today is Vimy Ridge Day. I’ve never been a history buff but am slowly getting better with history and it’s something I want my kids to learn and be interested in. Today we’ll be reading this book and watching this short video and if they are interested we’ll also watch this one.
Rae is one of those kids that runs out of time each day for all the ideas she has. She may get this trait from me . . . Today she is leading them in a twist on some games. We have a number of games we like to play together as a family and…
I really love the homeschooling community and how willing people are to share their knowledge. Today the kids got the chance to try skateboarding for the first time thanks to a homeschool dad who was willing to share not only his knowledge but also his board. Since we are parents who have not yet bought…
Breakfast this morning suddenly turned into learning double digit addition (no carrying yet) for Mister Five. He’s really excited to be able to add up to 99! He has just a simple composition notebook that has room for a drawing or something on the top half and lines on the bottom half. I love pulling…
Last night Rae had the idea that her and I should work on something together. She came up with the idea that we should create a book about famous Canadians. Today we were working on brainstorming a variety of famous Canadians and almost finished a notebooking journal book. (I plan on sharing it as a…