RAWR

This month started a new subject for science in our homeschooling adventure. I gave Luke the choice between space or dinosaurs. Being the boy that he is he went with the latter. So the past couple weeks have been consumed with all kinds of prehistoric creatures. Here's some of what we did....

We read lots of books on dinosaurs and made our own fossils

We did dino math and finger paint stegosauruses

A couple of other things we did that believe it or not I did not have my camera for were my job as an archaeologist were I buried certain things and he had to dig them up and tell me what they told him about the people and things that lived in that area and dino categories where he had to paste pictures of dinosaurs under the right column, herbivore or carnivore. We finished our dinosaur unit with a trip to our local museum, Fern Bank. Pictures from that soon :)

What We Learned

This past week we finished up our vowel review and went from me reading along with Luke to him reading to me. : D <<<<< My proud face. We worked on counting by two's, five's, and ten's and finished up on sorting. For science we studied everything trees and did a couple of cool leaf experiments. As the weeks go by they are becoming more hands on and Luke loves it. We are finally in a routine where I just need to tell him it is time for school and he knows exactly what he needs to do and I am just there to guide, unless we are learning something new, and it's wonderful :)

 

What We Learned

The past couple of weeks we have been focusing on long and short vowels and all the rules that come with them. It's really starting to make me wonder who came up with this thing called the English language and why in the heck they had to make it so difficult. But Luke is catching on real quick, which I knew he would, so I guess I can't complain too much. We have also been introducing word problems with math, and our extras have been rain and rainbows.

(Water cycle in case you couldn't tell :))

What We Learned

We learned about the seasons and what made them change. We talked about how we are in fall now and that during fall is when people pick apples out of the orchards and who better to talk about than Johnny Appleseed :)

We made fall handprint wreaths out of a piece of diaper box and construction paper and studied proverbs 10:5

For math we did sums up to 20 and for our extra we talked about our community who helps make it run.

For art we made paper plate apples and learned you can't leave Matalie alone with a paint brush :)

And for our explore day we visited our local fire station.

What did you learn this week??? :)