THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:
We had a special visit from three Revolutionary War soliders at co-op one day! The main goal of our co-op is to “enhance and reinforce” our at-home studies. There’s nothing like a LIVE re-enactment to fulfill that goal. Later in the day, Josh’s class split in 1/2. 1/2 were tories …
THE FRENCH & INDIANS WAR
We didn’t spend much time on this week because we were still finishing up things from our 3 week colonial study. We did read this one book outloud though. Josh took a real interest in guns of the time period and decided to do some research on flint lock guns …
COLONIAL STUDY
These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to …
LEAF HUNT & PHOTOSYNTHESIS
I can’t find a link to the Scholastic book, Going on a Leaf Hunt, that the botany teachers read to the little kids but it was SO CUTE! They read the book while searching all over the building for various types of leaves which had been preplaced around the building. …
BEAN PLANT UPDATE
Our bean plants aren’t doing too well. We brought them out from the light hut a few days ago and put them in the window. They were doing really well until they were watered too much. One day I noticed there was water SITTING in the cup and the plants …
PLANT DISSECTION
The botany class dissected plants that were donated by a local florist. The project Josh did in class was too large to fit into his nature journal so I had him dissect a carnation here at home. Thanks to the flowers my parents gave us for our anniversary I just …
INDIAN CORN PRESENTATION
Josh’s second presentation at co-op this year was on the Indian Corn the Pilgrims found (or stole – lol) after they landed at Plymouth Rock. If you would like, you can listen to his speech too! It’s our first attempt at adding a voice recorded message to our blog so …
A,B,C,D BOOK
A is for Apple, B is for Butterfly, C is for Crocodile, D is for Duck Our SAGE co-op (more on that in another post coming later… I know I haven’t mentioned it on the blog yet and I will get to that someday!) preschool is doing a different letter …
OUR BUDDING BOTANISTS
This year Josh and Nathan are both using Apologia’s elementary Botany course with our homeschool co-op. Yes, you read that right. The mom teachers are even doing botany with the preschoolers in our co-op. So far Nathan has learned that flowers make seeds. The first week all of the kids …