Cieslak's Homeschool-journey
It's all about the fun, the craziness, the things we learn and our thoughts!!!
I haven't been really faithful with regards to journaling our home school journey, but that doesn't mean we aren't faithful in doing it. Homeschooling is something I absolutely love, despite the stress and tight schedule that comes with it. I am still amazed how much I enjoy it, but it is what it is. One of the fantastic things I love about this adventure is the fact that I myself learn so much about many different things. I love the many activities we get to do in our lessons and the fun we have while doing it. Of course we get on each others nerves, and our boys wouldn't be normal boys if they wouldn't complain and whine about different things, but the overall experience for all of us is pretty cool. Our school room is constantly changing and our walls are getting fuller. Here are a few pictures of the things we did during the last few months. In the picture below we spoke about Egypt, and as a fun activity the boys were able to make their own little paper pyramids. :) In Science we talked about birds and that there are all sorts of birds with so many different beaks. To make it more visual, the activity for this lesson was to use different food items and different tools to learn what it is like for birds to pick up food. So we used a teaspoon, tweezers, clothes pins and scissors as different "beaks", and elbow pasta, wild rice, corn and almonds as foods. The boys each got a small paper plate in front of them and a cup in one hand and then they had to use the different tools (one after another) to pick up as much food as they could. They had 10 seconds and then we counted how many food pieces were in their cups. In our next Science lesson we talked about what type of feathers birds have and why certain feathers don't get soaked when the birds enter the water. To show our boys why the water just glides off, the activity of the lesson was to use a crayon and color the paper as hard as they could in one spot. We then dropped some water on that spot and the results can be seen below. What a fun way to visualize the lesson. :) In Literature we listened to the audio book "Little house in the big woods" over the course of several weeks and when we finished the book, we had a little celebration in which we baked horseshoe cookies (pioneer recipe) and started making lantern out of tin cans. The cookies tasted really good and I followed the recipe perfectly, except adding chocolate chips. ;) We gave up on the tin cans eventually because that would have taken forever. First we had to fill the empty tin cans with water and then freeze it until it was completely solid. After that we used a nail and hammer to make little holes in the can. We got tired of it pretty quickly, but the cookies were a success for sure. This week we started listening to the audio book "Bambi" in Literature, not the Disney version, but the original version written by Felix Salten. The activity was being creative again, and so the boys made a little paper deer. As you can see, we are having a blast learning and being creative. I am just so grateful the lessons have such wonderful activity suggestions since I am not the most creative crafty person, but I too had fun doing the above with my kids. :)
Since our boys have their reading time every day, they received a bunch of books for Christmas last year. And our wonderful friends from San Diego send them a huge box full of books as a present. We sure feel loved and blessed.
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Grandma Russell
2/5/2017 09:35:34 pm
Thanks for sharinng. That. sounds like alot of fun going with with your brothers and sisters. Did you get to graduate?
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Rebecca
2/8/2017 05:47:36 am
It is a lot of fun. We just started homeschooling this school year and so we have a long way to go. :) Thank you for your comment.
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