Here’s a look at this week’s library haul!
Ephraim got out the body books, Rae’s are the top two chapter books (minus the audiobook) and mine are the ones about backyard chickens (for my one day dream).
Upcoming themes: gardening and bees!
I love that the library has this nifty feature that lets us know the value of the books we get out each week. The library really does save us thousands each year:
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…
What started as an attempt to make a robot out of old laminator and remote control car pieces quickly turned into a rabbit err . . . kitty trail . . . We went from this video of a cardboard robot to this video of a cardboard ATM to this video of a cardboard gumball…
This morning Raeca took down our jar of various currencies from our trips. She started asking questions and we ended up talking about different currencies, the countries the coins came from and who visited those countries and when. We admired the different types of currency, the images on them and even the different shapes (the…
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…
Welcome to our first Day in the Life! I’m hoping to make this a monthly series here. I really appreciate our ability to have slow mornings. Unless we have to be somewhere early I let the kids wake up on their own and we usually eat breakfast separately since some need to eat as soon…
This is our memory verse for the next while. I’ve been less diligent with memorizing verses than I would like and how this is the start to a better routine. There is really no formal plan for memorizing but the are lots of opportunities in the day when kind words are not the default and…