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Heart of Dakota- BLHFHG Unit 2

23
Sep

Our second week of homeschooling is complete and was a success 🙂

Hailey practicing counting by 3s during calendar time.

Hailey read her journal to Hunter.

History/Geography:

This week we read about Sally and Richard, two kids who lived in Jamestown, and what it was like for them. Hailey really enjoys the readings each day and doesn’t want me to stop reading.

One of the readings was about Richard getting lost and Sally searching for him. Hailey drew a map to show where Richard went.

Language Arts:

Hailey’s illustration of her poem from this week.

Hailey is working through the Emerging Readers and started with The Beginner’s Bible. She is enjoying reading it, although it is not challenging her. I am hoping it is building confidence for when we move on to the more difficult books.

We are using Rod and Staff Preparing to Build English 2 for grammar and I am finding it to be boring. I have been looking at Pinterest trying to find some ideas to make it a bit more fun.

Math:

This week in math I introduced the concept of division. Hailey picked some fairies and then had to give each of them an equal amount of Cheeze Its. She loves the activities we do like that. She’s not a fan of the work in her math book, but she loves our hands on activities.

Science:

Hailey is really enjoying science. We only have it 2 times each week, but she is always so excited when I tell her we are doing science. Even though the activities seem very simple she really enjoys them.

Hailey had to pick an animal from a different climate that she wanted to learn more about. She decided she wanted to learn more about giraffes. After we read about giraffes she picked a stuffed animal and narrated a play to show what she had learned.

We also studied tree squirrels and how they stretch out their legs and flatten their bodies and tales and then glide through the air. We did the following experiment:

Hailey dropped a piece of paper that was crumpled up.

Then she dropped a flat piece of paper. She immediately made the connection to the tree squirrels flattening out their bodies.

This is Hailey’s notebooking page for the our tree squirrel experiment.

Music:

Hailey and Hunter really liked the song that went with our Bible verse this week and had a lot of fun dancing along with it.

Unit Study:

We are still learning all about apples.

Hailey made applesauce with the apples we picked last week.

We also made apple crisp.

Yummy!

Art:

We made this simple Apple Tree Craft.

We also made this Apple Life Cycle Craft.

Field Trips:

We went on 2 field trips and had lots of fun!

First Hailey and I went to see The Three Little Pigs opera. It was so cute and she loved it!!

Hailey with the three pigs and the big bad wolf after the show.

We also went to see how donuts are made.

We got to see the process for making apple cider too.

After all of the juice has been squeezed out of the apple this is what is left. It was pretty neat to see.

We are all ready for another fun week of homeschooling!!

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Flat Stanley

18
Sep

Stanley has been a busy little boy. He went on a visit to Pennsylvania and here is what he did while he was there:

Stanley went for a boat ride and little swim at Moraine State Park.

Stanley got to go to the Consol Energy Center.

Stanley was able to meet David Tutera at a wedding show!

Stanley got to go to a Pittsburgh Steelers game!

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Heart of Dakota- BLHFHG Unit 1

16
Sep

We just completed our first full week of homeschooling… and we survived 🙂 Here is a recap of our first week.

History/Geography:

We are learning about the pioneers who came from Spain and settled in Florida and what it was like for them to travel across the ocean.

I put the earth on the floor using masking tape, then printed out the continents. Hailey did various things (hoping, tip toeing, twirling) to get from one continent to another.

She used one of her toys to show the path Columbus took across the ocean.

Hailey also completed a notebooking page for history.

We started a timeline to keep track of important dates as we study them.

Language Arts:

Hailey thought it was great that I let her sit on her desk to work on a grammar lesson.

So far Hunter has been so good during school, and I am very thankful for that! He likes to do whatever Hailey is doing. He saw her on the floor copying some sentences off of the board and he had to get down there and do some writing too.

Practicing her spelling words by using pipe cleaner to spell the words.

Copywork using her Bible verse.

We are also reading the biography Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson. I read just a little bit to Hailey each day and she is really enjoying it. I love that when I stop reading she always asks to hear some more. Hailey also reads to me each day and is currently working her way through The Beginners Bible.

Math:

Hailey is learning multiplication using lots of hands on activities. The blue paper represents water and the graham crackers are boats, while the cereal represents people in the boats. We did several different examples to get some practice seeing how multiplication works. Afterwards we enjoyed a little snack 🙂

Science:

We learned about how currents work and how they make paths in the water as they move. Hailey used a medicine dropper, held it under the water and squeezed water out behind the boat, which pushed the boat forward.

Hailey and her science notebooking page.

We also learned how blubber protects some sea creatures from cold water. I put very cold water in the bucket. Hailey put a bare hand in, then her other hand is being protected by shortening. She loved this experiment! I was talking to Rich on the phone a little while after we did it and she had to tell him all about it. When he got home from work she had him do it too.

Science notebooking page about blubber.

Unit Study:

We have been studying all about apples. We did a taste test to see which variety we all liked the best.

We also went apple picking, which was a lot of fun!

Art:

Hailey made a shield which represented that the Lord is our shield and we can trust God to protect us when we are scared. She really loved decorating it!

Hailey also drew a self portrait. I plan to have her do another one at the end of the school year.

We made some apple prints and Hailey thought that the star shape left in the middle of the apple from where the seeds are was pretty neat.

We had a really great first week and I am super excited about our first year of homeschooling!!

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First Day of School

10
Sep

We’re finally back!! We got a little busy at the end of August with a 10 day trip to Disney World. When we got back from our trip I was making our final preparations for school to start, and just ran out of time for blogging. Anyway, we started school last week- our first day was on Thursday. Here are some pictures from our first day: