In no particular order, I present to you our second week of homeschooling highlights!
Leo finished up camp, where he made a new friend and the two bonded over sugar.
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We went on a hike. It was fun.
We saw a waterfall. We had candy.
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| Today I went to camp. Today me and Max ate about 10 pieces of candy. Yummy! |
We dabbled in the Brave Writer lifestyle. I am in love already! The kids thoroughly enjoyed our first Brave Writer Tuesday Teatime. We dressed up fancy, had raspberry tea, enjoyed chocolate cookies, and read poetry from the book It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles by Jack Prelutsky.
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| Our first Tuesday Teatime |
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| I’m Caught Up In Infinity from It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles |
Our first Brave Writer Tuesday Teatime inspired Leo to write a silly poem in his journal:
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| “I Ate 10 Pies” I ate 10 pies. I really am so fat. I can’t get through the door. And that is that. |
As always, Leo did a lot of creating this week.
Legos, magnatiles, wooden blocks, and of course arts and crafts!
We are currently on vacation (yay!!), which means I needed oodles of books and magazines for the long car ride in order to decrease the “Are we there yet?”s. We listened to The Neverending Story on audiobook . Highly recommend!
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| Yes, that’s a laundry basket full of library books. This is how we roll. |
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| Lots of magazine reading. |
Vacation also means letters to pen pals and lots of games, including Connect Four, You’ve Been Sentenced, Jenga, checkers, Story Cubes, and Bananagrams.
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| Leo’s Bananagrams |
We even… get ready for this… watched a little TELEVISION on our vacation! The Magic School Bus series is a big hit over here at the moment and the internet is filled with lesson plans and crafts based on various episodes so we will be dabbling in those later.
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| “Seatbelts everyone!!” |
And, let’s not forget outside time. There was plenty of that. Backyard baseball and soccer games, playgrounds, swimming pools, basketball, hikes, gardening, and farm trips.
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| Gardenin’! |
| Today I climbed on a jungle gym. I did not fall. I have perfect balance. |
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| Goats ‘n’ pigs |
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| Silliness |
(And a little bit of climbing)
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The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
~John Holt
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