Homeschool
Haven
(This is the Blog of a homechooling Mom about the daily adventures and wonder of homeschooling an exhuberant kid (and his older brother before that. To make sure we cover the main curriculum basics, every day we do curriculum from a great online website that covers all the states' standards. (See Time4Learning below and soon on the Homeschool Resources page.) Plus we do the required curriculum from the wonderful Christian Light Education's CLE Homeschool Plus, which keeps all our transcripts etc. We also do daily speech therapy. Below see info on many of the other fun and important stuff we do to learn.
Please note the following in blue is still under construction because I've been in a lot of pain, sorry. But more info soon!
From Zula Patrol we learned that the sun is 1,000 times bigger than the earth and of course you should never lookk directly at it. (ION Television Network)
franklinsprings.com
Adventures from the Book of Virtues.: diligence, loyalty,Qubo, ION
ohotography, Michaelangelo, Sistine Chapel & years & fresco painting 4 yrs- and courage: story of Queen Esther
Betwen the Lions all about bugs and Sphynx Moth we love with tongue equal to if we had 16 ft tongue.Caterpillars by Eileen Fisher Look at me Fly" by David Martin
SPCOFR20
If you were a beetle, by Eleanor Rigbeetle
Scrapbook Memories: How to photo vlowers, weeds, trees etc.
Planet Earth: Jungle, 60 min. Animal Planet. Act ;ole a bird of paradise displaying/dancing Rainborests growing b4 eyes w amazing photography 45 different kinds monkeys have been seen eating in shifts on a single huge fig tree.frogs ears tuned to hear only calls of their own kind amidst cacophany. gliding frogs in high canopy Same orange mold mushrooms in our yard.
Noah's rat is sweetest one they had, a girl.
Sun book on big universe, (get free mos. 20 percent off now) & 100 percent on quiz assess.
cYBERCHASE venn diagrams, and/or comparisons
"Moon Rope" by Lois Ehlert
Long O like rope/mole
silent e changing vowels to own sound
gawains word & -blending bowl
Planet Earth again: Colugo: some kind of gliding lemur they unsure. Fungi necessary in rainforest & some keep bugs from getting too strong.
In Every Moon There is a Face
by Charles Mathes (author), Arlene Graston (illustrator)
Between The Lions: "River Story" by Meredith Hooper and all about salmon and Alakan fish camp
Olympic games crafts:
The Big Fish by Phyllis Root (sp)
Cyberchase: wind strentgh gauge make at pbskidsgo.org
http://www.sillyeaglebooks.com/2010/02/easy-and-fun-winter-olympic-crafts-and.html
Zula ZPatrol: planetary rings, simple machines: lever and fulcrum and wedge; moon details plus different ages on planets/moons games on NASA kids & asteroids onn another site?
Art: another bowl and flat plate embossed gorgeous with a screw
Electric Co. etc.
Christian Light Learning To Read program arrived yay! first lesson.
simple machines make life easier: like an inclined plane can help move things and a lever/teeter totter can help lift heavier things
Noah art: Engraving art, paint by number jungle scene, and pottery clay work especially loves the pounding. Wound up not liking the "Art Adventure Super Value Set parts he tried so far that we got on great deal from Goodwill though, cuz the numbers on the guide gave wrong colors of paint so we would have had a green tiger.
saving a rainforest letter to legistator:
http://wilderness.org/content/tongass-forest-protect
Let's Work Together to Protect the Tongass
Thank you for writing to Congress to help protect the Tongass National Forest!
You’ve joined the more than 30,000 people that have written to Congress so far. But the forces aligned to promote clearcutting in the Tongass are strong and well-prepared.
We need Americans like you to speak up. And soon. Our goal is to get 100,000 people to contact Congress.
None of pics from my new extremly cheap "camera" we took worked. :( Nor any Noah took for hours of wildflowers other day :( We need good cameras w/ macro someday. It's a dream anyhow :)
Feb. 27, 2010:
We've been learning about Chile and their unfortunate earthquake. One place to visit to learn more is CNN (please click earthquake pic to above to go there.)
Noah is very eager and hopeful that our
site's fundraiser for recent earthquake victim's relief (both Chile and
Haiti) will be successful. (Please see Dollar Store page, link at far left.)
As a tie-in we've also been learning about South America a little in general, and the animals of the rainforest there. Plus, we saw a fantastic "reality" documentary on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) about a trip to visit the Waonobi Tribe. They used to be the most vicious tribe anywhere and killed 6 of 10 of their own people not to mention people who dared to come near them, including 5 missionaries about 50 years ago. But 2 of those missionaries' wives went to live with them afterward, and turned them to God and living peacefully (for the most part.) So though they partially still in the stone age, they happily welcomed the friends and family of the missionaries who recently made the difficult trek to visit them in the Amazon and live as they do, spear fishing, blow dart hunting, you name it.
Jan. 29. 2010:
Rare Wolf Moon to be Biggest
and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight!
Even though he's been sick a couple days with a cold, Noah's excited because tonight is a rare occurence, sometimes called a "Wolf Moon." Here's a great link to tell you all about it, then rush outside to take a look when it's time at your end of the world. Noah just ran in exhuberantly to proclaim that it's rising here, and it's huge! Sorry I didn't tell you earlier, but I didn't know 'til just a little bit ago. Happy moon gazing! We'll do some activities about the moon tomorrow. (Please click moon for lot's info about it.)
Jan. 23,2010:
I found out about a homeschooling family that needs help,that will allow you to get a great deal on tons of great homeschool resources at the same time:
Help a Homeschool Family!
The
Estes family is having a huge fire sale to help them meet their
financial needs. To learn more about them visit their blog. (Just click the picture at right.)
While there, you can go down a few paragraphs to the part of their blog where they have the link for apackage of homeschool goodies worth hundreds, simply for a donation of at least a certain amount.
Jan. 2, 2010:
Happy New Year! We're counting our blessings from 2009 and writing many down to look at in years to come, praising God for all of them. We pray everyong has a blessed 2010!
My daughter graduates from High School this year so she made this beach picture with her friend a while back. I thought this greeting was perfect to wish you all a great 2010! Just click on it!
For Lot's MORE homeschool ideas, see our Homeschool 2009 page:please click above
and our other pages including "Holidays" and "Homeschool Helpers" (see links at left.)
