july 14, 2009

We are doing a new thing for scriptures: after we read, I have the boys draw a picture about what we read. Charlotte Mason says that to help the kids learn what you read, they should tell it back, or narrate what you read to them. One way of doing that is by drawing a picture of it. I've noticed that I remember it better doing it.

We did writing on paper with smaller lines- copywork; spelling list 2; math addition drill of 2's flashcards and computer games; read some more "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch"--kinda boring really but Alex wants me to keep reading it; and then we did reading with Daddy one on one.

I think for science I'm going to use the Kingfisher hands on science series of science experiment books with the Discovery Channel School Science series books. They're also free at the library. We got the Matter book and Matter and Materials Science experiment book to go along with it. I am also pretty excited about this: I found a website about nature education and on it, it had info about making a nature trail. So, I thought it would be fun to put signs up on the nature trail in our neighborhood as we learn about it. It would be a fun project, we'd learn stuff and then we'd have something to show for it in the end!