HORSE SHOWS!!
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| Hunter Ring Crew |
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CAR SHOWS!!
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BIKE SHOWS!!
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AND CAMP!!
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Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Trip to the Sugar Bush
Spring has finally arrived! With the running of the sap, our homeschool groupdecided to take a trip to the sugar bush to see how maple syrup is made. We had a great time and, as you can see, all wore our very best clothes!
The owner of the sugar bush very kindly sent us home with a 20L pail of sap. After boiling it down for a couple of days (Yes! DAYS!!) we were rewarded with 500ml of maple syrup. Yummy! And so much better than store bought; I don't even like maple syrup and yet still thought our pancakes that Sunday morning were the best I had ever had!
The owner of the sugar bush very kindly sent us home with a 20L pail of sap. After boiling it down for a couple of days (Yes! DAYS!!) we were rewarded with 500ml of maple syrup. Yummy! And so much better than store bought; I don't even like maple syrup and yet still thought our pancakes that Sunday morning were the best I had ever had!
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Physical Education - Winter
Funny... I don't remember Phys Ed being this fun when I was in school!
Curling
Riding
Skiing
Hockey
Tuesday, December 25, 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
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!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Where do you-all find the time?!
The time to homeschool and blog?
We've been puttering along all fall, continuing to use Moving Beyond the Page as our main curriculum spine, and very much enjoying it! We are almost finished with the 6-8 level and will move into 7-9 early in 2012. We're also been spending our time working through Teaching Textbooks 3 and I will order the next level after the holiday rush is over. Challenging Word Problems and Life of Fred - Elementary are also going well. We've been using My Pals Are Here! 3/4 for science, as well as several Intellego Unit Studies for both science and social science. We have workbooks for days when I'm not at my best, but both find that discussion centred around whatever we are reading suits us best. Fine arts and physical education are mostly done out of house, and as for French - well, let's call it a 'curriculum in progress'...
Kind of like my blogging!
CKW with his latest Lego 12 Days of Brickmas creation. Day 2 - Gift Wrapped Present
We've been puttering along all fall, continuing to use Moving Beyond the Page as our main curriculum spine, and very much enjoying it! We are almost finished with the 6-8 level and will move into 7-9 early in 2012. We're also been spending our time working through Teaching Textbooks 3 and I will order the next level after the holiday rush is over. Challenging Word Problems and Life of Fred - Elementary are also going well. We've been using My Pals Are Here! 3/4 for science, as well as several Intellego Unit Studies for both science and social science. We have workbooks for days when I'm not at my best, but both find that discussion centred around whatever we are reading suits us best. Fine arts and physical education are mostly done out of house, and as for French - well, let's call it a 'curriculum in progress'...
Kind of like my blogging!
CKW with his latest Lego 12 Days of Brickmas creation. Day 2 - Gift Wrapped Present
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Our First Day 'Not Back To School'
Our local homeschool group's 'Not Back To School' get-together at a local beach on the day the public school children, indeed, went back to school. It started out chilly, but after playing on the jungle gym, eating lunch, making kites and generally hanging out together, the sun came out and we had a perfectly lovely day!
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