YIKES!
However, Student just started checking off as she went, sneezing and emptying her nose and ever looking forward to the
intertwined Art throughout the first day back.
Enter, the reminder of the year being half completed: the I CAN can. (Thanks to Mrs. Tonya's Homeschool Smarts!) Student put her Modge Podge and fabric from Christmas to work (thanks Auntie Ang)! She didn't want to include the I CAN words, because she insisted...
"It will be used better another time, again, for something else without the words on it!"
Sound the trumpet, US History has begun! Teacher made the decision to begin where Student has some familiar ties. Stemming from Ruby Bridges and Black History Month,
we began our timeline of Martin Luther King today.
Student remembers: Dr.King got out of high school when he was 15. I don't think I will.
We set up the lesson cards and arranged them in chronological order. BIG and BOLD on the living room floor! And her blanket and pillow still on the couch from the 4am sick- feeling that brought her downstairs to rest... aside from this, Student enjoyed the activity.
We fit Ruby Bridges into the time line as well.
Plans for a field trip to the local College's King Day celebration
are being added to the calendar! And then when February brutes it's head,
we'll be in timely fashion to begin with George Washington!
And continuing in the Old Testament, we'll muster up the organization to attempt both each day! Got to love the lofty goals that are a direct result from being away from Homeschool for 2 weeks...we oft forget the trials and remember only the triumphs! All with the strength of Christ, to Him be the glory for ANYTHING that gets accomplished in the Homeschool!
Auntie Ang is on the Homeschool Favorite People List this week! She also gifted Student a timely First Grade Geography book: Throw Your Tooth on the Roof!
Student steered her fingers toward the correct continent and found Russia, precisely where we read that kids "...find an outdoor mousehole to drop their tooth into once they break it free..."!
And, smudging over from last semester, Student has begun her Human Body Unit. The first focus is on the skeletal system. Aside from the fun learning we've planned on Principal's iphone app, we discovered an educational use for pantry pasta:
SKELETAL MODEL!
Toddler and Student shared the pasta and the School House Rock video. Ahh, tis so sweet to see the love in Homeschool!
