My youngest son is working through Apologia Botany this year. The following pictures show an experiment he was working on.
He was trying to find out if a Sumara or Dandelion tuft would travel farther.
Yes, we have been known to do school still in our pajamas!
Recording the results!
If you are looking for a science curriculum for your kids I really recommend Apologia. They have books for elementary up to high school. Both of my kids really enjoy these books.
We use Tapestry Of Grace as part of our homeschool curriculum. We are in Year 1 this year. As part of one of our units we were studying Ancient Greece. I like TOG because the curriculum includes lots of activities that you can do with your family.
One of our activities for this unti was to have a Greek feast. We chose to go the easy route and had the following….
hot wings, frech bread with olive oil seasoned dipping sauce, coleslaw and for dessert, grapes, pears & pound cake.
Here is a picture of our table set up and ready to eat.
My 12 year old had the idea to put lettuce leaves under our chicken wings to make it a little fancier. He laid the whole platter out. I think he did a great job.
One of the things I love about homeschooling is the fun learning activities that I can do with my kids. I enjoy learning right alongside them.
I encourage you to try a new activity this week with your kids, whether you homeschool or not you can always enjoy a good time with them.
This post is just going to be an update on my goals for 2011. I posted about my goals because I feel like I am more accountable knowing that other people are reading about them.
My progress and any new goals will be listed in bold. Once items are completed they will be crossed out.
Please share your blog link in the comments section if you are updating on your goals for the new year.
Homeschool
continue to do hands on projects and blog about them – still doing projects but haven’t posted them yet, need to work on this more
finish the year strong
plan next years school before school starts
Photography/Blog
learn to use my dsr camera on something other than auto
improve my photo skills
post to my blog regularly – I am getting better about this one. I posted 16 times this month
find a cookbook and cook through the recipes and post to blog
Scrapbooking
use all of my Cricut carts at least once in a project and post about them – I need to get on this one. So far I have only used one cart and posted one project
scrapbook at least 150 new layouts – Yuck, I am really behind here, I have only done one layout this year
Weight
work out at least 3 times per week for the whole year once my foot is healed – my foot is getting better, I am no longer wearing the air cast but I cannot get shoes on my feet comfortably yet
lose 40 pounds (I have alot more to lose than that but that would be an awesome achievement for me)
Home
clean and decorate my bathroom
clean and decorate my bedroom
list all of the backlog of merchandise I have to my Ebay store
keep my office clean year round
Personal
read at least 20 new books this year
read the Bible more & complete at least 4 Bible studies
Happy New Year everyone.
Welcome to a new year. I am glad to see 2010 in the past. It was a really rough year for us. We saw both of my parents become very ill, myself and my hubby both had surgery, homeschool got way behind and overall I just felt like I didn’t have my act together. Through all of that though I still had joy and the love of my Father. I am very blessed.
I have made a list of goals that I would like to accomplish this year. I don’t make resolutions because I tend to not keep them so I like to just use goals instead. That way there isn’t any pressure but I can still have a map of where I would like to go for the year.
Throughout the year I will update and see where I am in accomplishing these goals. I find that once it’s put on the blog I have more incentive to follow through.
I may add to this list through the year but this is what I have for now.
Homeschool
continue to do hands on projects and blog about them
finish the year strong
plan next years school before school starts
Photography/Blog
learn to use my dsr camera on something other than auto
improve my photo skills
post to my blog regularly
find a cookbook and cook through the recipes and post to blog
Scrapbooking
use all of my Cricut carts at least once in a project and post about them
scrapbook at least 150 new layouts
Weight
work out at least 3 times per week for the whole year once my foot is healed
lose 40 pounds (I have alot more to lose than that but that would be an awesome achievement for me)
Home
clean and decorate my bathroom
clean and decorate my bedroom
list all of the backlog of merchandise I have to my Ebay store
keep my office clean year round
Personal
read at least 20 new books this year
I have big plans today. Big, big plans. Are you ready?
I am back to homeschool planning. Before the year began I had my 9th graders whole year planned out. I never did finish my 6th graders plans. Today I have to plan out the other 3 units in our Tapestry of Grace studies.
I also plan on adding new writing assignments for both boys. This is going to take most if not all of the day. Maybe even tomorrow too.
I also need to go grocery shopping. Anyone want to make a list for me? Please? Just kidding. I do not mind making the list and find that if I make a list I am much more successful in my shopping. I plan to pick up a bag of groceries to donate to the food pantry as well. This time of year they really need food to give away. Maybe you can pick up a couple extra things this week on your shopping trip that will bless someone else.
Clutter challenge update:
326
-11 more things
315 to go
Are you getting rid of anything this month?
I do not have a picture of the finished Pectoral because we decided not to paint it. It did turn out really good though.
