First Week of Homeschool

This week was the first week having Lynni over to homeschool with us. We started the Tuesday after Labor Day.

The early mornings are spent in circle time. All of the kids have folders where we write the date, track the weather, and do a little daily math. We also work on poem memorization.

After circle time, Eaden and Lynni do spelling, cursive, math, phonics, and reading.

 After lunch we do either science, history/geography, or kitchen and art.

Tuesday is a science day and we went on a nature walk.

Wednesday we baked cookies. They did all of the measuring and mixing themselves.

 We also did an art project. We put some blue paint in a spray bottle to make the rain. I think it rained every day this week and so this was a fitting project.

 The poem to memorize for the week was Hey Diddle, Diddle. Here are Eaden and Naia's pictures.

Reciting the poem.

Working on math facts is a lot more fun with a friend!

 Naia building a double decker couch.

 Thursday is a history/geography day. We read about the ancient Maya, watched a few youtube videos, and made salt dough maps of the region where the Maya lived/live.

 I got Lynni involved in the housekeeping.

 Both girls were VERY excited to get all of their words right on the first spelling test.

 Lessons in chicken keeping.

 They locked themselves in the coop on accident and I told them they had to stay there for a while.

 Experimenting with magnets.

 Taven really liked moving his toy car around with the magnets. Very cool.

It was a great week. Everything ran smoothly and all of the kids got along very well. Obviously we need more of a schedule now that we have Lynni here during a certain portion of the day, but I think we will still have room for creativity and spontaneity.