From Our House to Yours...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving Eh!
It's our Canadian Thanksgiving today, so I have a bit of free time to update. We've been busy, busy, busy!
After getting up at 0630 and leaving camp every Saturday morning to drive into the city for 3on3 hockey, CKW decided that riding competitively was more important to him than playing rep (competitive) hockey, so a few weeks ago a new member of our family arrived: Top Notch Tuppence, a large, Welsh cross pony who has shown hunters, jumpers and evented - just what CKW needs!
They hit it off immediately and CKW has been riding almost every day since his arrival!
We've been 'doing school' four days per week, approximately 3.5 hours each day and then heading out to the barn for the afternoon. CKW attends an after school group for a couple of hours every afternoon and then continues on to sports and/or piano in the evenings. During the day on Wednesdays, we get together with our local homeschool group and socialise. Great for him to have kids to run around with and really great for me to have other homeschooling parents to talk to. Seriously, I need the socialisation waaaaay more than he does!
Moving Beyond the Page (MBtP) continues to be our main curriculum spine for language arts and social science. I continue to be impressed by this curriculum! Maths is covered with Teaching Textbooks, Singapore Math, Life of Fred, and various iPad apps - CKW is a maths lover! We are also enjoying My Pals Are Here! for science and supplement with the Homeschool Science Program at our local city science centre. Our Canadian social science content is from Donna Ward but I plan to purchase CBC's Canada: A People's History as CKW finds Donna Ward a bit dry, and I have to admit that I concur! We are slogging though Easy Grammar and Daily Grams but I'm not impressed with teaching grammar based entirely upon prepositions and plan to invest in Michael Clay Thompson's curriculum next year, as long as we have the time to fit it in along with MBtP. CKW enjoys all the 'Detective' workbooks from The Critical Thinking Company and on days that I am not feeling well, I am very thankful for workbooks and computer based curriculum!
Fall is my favourite season - hope you are enjoying it as much as we are!
After getting up at 0630 and leaving camp every Saturday morning to drive into the city for 3on3 hockey, CKW decided that riding competitively was more important to him than playing rep (competitive) hockey, so a few weeks ago a new member of our family arrived: Top Notch Tuppence, a large, Welsh cross pony who has shown hunters, jumpers and evented - just what CKW needs!
They hit it off immediately and CKW has been riding almost every day since his arrival!
We've been 'doing school' four days per week, approximately 3.5 hours each day and then heading out to the barn for the afternoon. CKW attends an after school group for a couple of hours every afternoon and then continues on to sports and/or piano in the evenings. During the day on Wednesdays, we get together with our local homeschool group and socialise. Great for him to have kids to run around with and really great for me to have other homeschooling parents to talk to. Seriously, I need the socialisation waaaaay more than he does!
Moving Beyond the Page (MBtP) continues to be our main curriculum spine for language arts and social science. I continue to be impressed by this curriculum! Maths is covered with Teaching Textbooks, Singapore Math, Life of Fred, and various iPad apps - CKW is a maths lover! We are also enjoying My Pals Are Here! for science and supplement with the Homeschool Science Program at our local city science centre. Our Canadian social science content is from Donna Ward but I plan to purchase CBC's Canada: A People's History as CKW finds Donna Ward a bit dry, and I have to admit that I concur! We are slogging though Easy Grammar and Daily Grams but I'm not impressed with teaching grammar based entirely upon prepositions and plan to invest in Michael Clay Thompson's curriculum next year, as long as we have the time to fit it in along with MBtP. CKW enjoys all the 'Detective' workbooks from The Critical Thinking Company and on days that I am not feeling well, I am very thankful for workbooks and computer based curriculum!
Fall is my favourite season - hope you are enjoying it as much as we are!
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Not Back to School 2012
CKW's 'Not Back to School' Third Grade photo. He's getting so tall... My baby is growing up!
His new school year calendar is courtesy of Scholastic, and who could possibly fall asleep without the Basher Science Solar System and Periodic Table posters to study bedside? LOL
His new school year calendar is courtesy of Scholastic, and who could possibly fall asleep without the Basher Science Solar System and Periodic Table posters to study bedside? LOL
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Knights of Valour
Although we haven't yet studied the Middle Ages, we couldn't pass up a trip to see the Knights of Valour Medieval Educational School Tour. Horses for him! Hunks for me!! Hahaha!
Monday, May 28, 2012
Track and Field Meet
A few of our local homeschool groups got together to have a track and field meet. CKW competed in the 80m, 200m, 400m, 800m, broad jump, long jump, triple jump and the ball put (shot put was for the older students). He was victorious in the long jump and did very well in the remainder of the events, finishing in second place overall in Boys 7-9 Group.
Ball Put
End of the 800 Metre Race!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Cinquain Nature Poem
CKW's Cinquain Nature Poem describing our nature walk this morning.
Snowstorm
Windy blizzard
Snow blowing wildly!
I love making snowmen
Winter
Yes, nearly the end of April and it's snowing out today! Hurry up spring!!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Finding His Passion
Reminding myself today that not everyone knows what their passion is when they are seven years old - I was lucky... It's okay if the National Hockey League is CKW's life goal at eight years old!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Fungi Experiment
As part of the Diversity unit in MPH Science 3/4, CKW has started a mold experiment. Yuck!
Day One:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Not his favourite book so far, but as we live in a rural area, he is enjoying learning about farm life in the late 19th century. Just the other day he asked me to hook up our miniature horse and drive him into town to get the groceries!
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