This Year's Home Schooling!

This picture depicts the calm serenity that our home schooling experience is...in my day dreams! LOL

It's that time of year again! Take down the kiddie pool, hang up the swim pants,dust off your lesson planner and get ready to dive into home school!

Yesterday I took the kids to our local super market. I bought them beach balls, soft balls, bouncy balls, ring toss, etc. All "outside" toys which were slashed down on super, end-of-summer sale. Some as cheap as 25 cents! 

I told the boys they could open up and play with their new new outside-inside toys as soon as they helped me straighten and organize the play/home school room.

Yes, yes, in the words of Ralphy from A Christmas Story.....A little bribe never hurts :)

Plus we are well stocked on fun toys to play with when the impending rainy days if Autumn have us stuck in the house!

So we washed down chalk boards, dusted off books, put puzzles back together, organized our beeswax collection, and threw away broken crayons.

 

 

 

An "home school" basket for Little Sprite Boy, cuurently 2 1/2 years old. It has building blocks, put-together pieces, board books and a knitted bunny family. This helps keep him busy while I instruct the older children.

On to our schedule......

Mondays- Circle Time, Main Lesson, and Art

Tuesdays - Circle Time, Science and Work Sheets

Fridays - Circle Time, Main Lesson and Rotating Speciality

This year some of the subjects we'll be covering.....

Kinder

Main Lesson - Bible Stories, Folk Tales, Nature Tales, Piano

Art - Coloring, water color painting, braiding, beeswax molding

Science - Cooking and Housekeeping Skills

Rotating Specialty - Puzzles and Mazes

4th Grade

Main Lesson - Math (concentration on fractions), Norse Mythology using the Kalevala, Grammar, Composition Writing

Art - Cross Stitching, Celtic Knot Drawing, Piano, Learning the Lap Harp

Science - Local Geography, Comparative Study of Man and Animal, Cooking, and Hands on Experiments

Rotating Specialty - Local History (including our Ward history and some family history) and Creating a Hero Binder*

* A Hero Binder is a simple notebook with clear insert sheets. Every month Nykki will choose a man (starting with Jesus and then Papa for the first two months, then Nykki can choose the rest). He will create a page or two profile for each man including pictures, a biography, quotes and information on what makes the man a hero. (Girls can do this too by creating a Titus 2 Mentor Binder of the women they emulate)

Circle Time

Morning Verse:

The sun with loving light

makes bright for me each day

my sole with spirit-power

gives strength unto my limbs 

in sunlight shining clear

I revere 

Oh Heavenly Parents

the strength of human kind

which thou so graciously hath planted in my soul

that I with all my might 

may love to work and learn

from Thee stream strength and light

to Thee rise love and thanks

After our verse we will act out a nature poem based on the season. We will then work on Bible study and scripture memorization using this program and finally end by singing a hymn and working on memorizing it.

We're looking forward to another amazing home school year!