Week 3 ~ Day 2 and Day 3

Today was a fun day homeschooling learning about rain and spring and rainbows.

We sand the song... Little Cabin in the woods with the hand motions today for those of you who don't know the song.... here are the words with what the motion you do with the words.

Little cabin in the wood (trace a cabin outline with your index fingers)

A little old man by the window stood (hand above eyes)

Saw a rabbit hopping by (two fingers of one hand like rabbit ears, hopping)

Knocking at his door (knock with fist)

"Help me! Help me! Help me!" he said, (throw arms up for each "help me")

"Or the hunter will shoot me dead!" (make a finger gun, point, and shoot)

"Come little rabbit, come with me, (welcome gesture with hands)

Happy we will be." (hug yourself)

This is Shaylin reading the Bernstein Bears big book of science. I have to say this book is so cool and we always enjoy our daily lessons in it.

Week 3 Day 1

I am loving Sonlight curriculum for my daughter it is working really well with her. So exciting to watch her learn. We had so much fun today learning about the wind and trying to fly our paper airplane indoors... it was raining outside here. Windy but rainy which is not the best flying environment for a paper airplane.
We also enjoyed playing with playdoh making worms/snakes into
bracelets.... okay... I have a total girlie girl.

New location for homeschooling curriculum...

The middle shelf has her sonlight curriculum.

Hurricane Lapbook

I am on a yahoo group and someone shared the most wonderful link with us all it is Weather Wiz Kids it will teach your children about weather. We are starting a hurricane lapbook here on Monday to go along with our Sonlight curriculum.

Here are some of the links we are using:
Weather Wiz Kids
Printable Hurricane tracking Chart (pdf)
Another Printable Hurricane tracking Chart (pdf)
Lesson: The Eye of the Hurricane (grade 3-5)
Hurricane Lesson
More Hurricane Lessons (more than one)
Weather Lapbook
Hurricane Watch

more links to follow as I research this more and get all the info together for the lapbook.

Back to Home School

Now that everyone is healthy again time to get back on track for homeschooling.
I have noticed that Shaylin knows a lot more than I realize she knows. It is always a delight to see how far she is coming along and how much she enjoys homeschooling.

We are getting excited about our NGBTS Picnic on Tuesday. It is going to be so much fun to hang out with other homeschoolers on the traditional first day of school around here. But alas I have already broke traditional ways and started school already. Call me a rebel.

more pictures will be coming now that things are back to normal around here.

Extras for this week...

I thought I would post some of the extras for this week that we are doing along with our week 2 of Sonlight P4/5.

• Monday
• watch a train movie
• practice counting to 20
• Tuesday
• Chipmunk coloring page
• make a windsock
• Wednesday
• noah's ark craft
• nature walk
• try to use a hammer and nails
• Thursday
• make a monkey craft
• fly a kite
• Friday
• paint a rainbow

Day 2 of school....

I have to tell you... it is going so well... my little one wants to keep going after we have done the days work... but so far we are keeping on track. More of an update and pictures later.