We are going to talk about cause and effect. Not thought much on this other than just asking the girls "What happens if...." and letting them fill in the blank. Then we explore the cause and effect.
We are going to look at 3D shapes, something I've never really talked about beyond the pyramid. Probably while we build something like this with our blocks. I just need to make some cylinders. What better way to slip in some education during play :)
We're going to play a game to reinforce location words (above, below, behind, under, beside) mostly for Chloe cause she's getting tripped up on it a little.
I'm hoping to find a large old fashioned liquid thermometer for outside the school room window. We can start charting outside temperature since the season is changing. We'll watch the temp drop over the next month.
We are going to talk more in depth about Native Americans. We talked about the concept last year of there being a lot of groups here and then the people from Europe moved in taking over the land and then we "Americans" said bugger off to the British, becoming the United States. That's about as in depth as I got, though this is the abbreviated version of a handful of conversations. I have a couple of books related to the subject that she was not so interested in last year. That's why I left it at that. Let's hope she's more receptive this year. If I have any winners on that front I'll let you know what they are.
I'm kind of doing a two family co-op kind of thing with a girl that I graduated high school with! Ack! Talk about scary, that means I have to get organized! This week is her week so we will be meeting with her crew one day. Next week we have an outing to a history museum. Then the following week is my turn. I'm taking the fun outdoorsy stuff. The subject matter is prairie life/western expansion kind of thing. I intend to be incredibly up front with my kids on how natives were moved to this land, promised to be theirs and then the government broke those promises and sold the land to other people. That's part of the reason I want to get back to talking about Native Americans this week. I feel like that's the best place to start when talking about American history. We'll just hop around the timeline a little since this was the subject my friend was working on anyway. Then in November I'll back track to European landings on the east coast, Thanksgiving and all that. Anyway, when my day gets closer I'll post about my planned activities and stuff. I've got a lot of ideas and I'm excited about it! Once I find out how in depth she is getting I can adjust my plan accordingly. I just hope I can get organized so it's not a mad scramble for resources the day before!
Came across this site on pinterest and hope to explore it this week with the girls.
A few of my homeschool friends were discussing online resources last week. I had gotten away from the computer as something for them to use. Then after seeing those posts I encouraged them to play some educational games. I got almost an hour (with them taking turns, but still being interested in watching what the other was doing) to organize and discuss the co-op stuff online with my friend! Agh! Why did I get away from this?! They were all occupied and let me get stuff done.... I'll post all the different sites we use and the ones I learned about last week in another post later today.
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