Our Wall

Since we have worked our way through the books we had for science, health and social studies. I have been making our days themed days. We do math in the book and then we spend the rest of the day on a theme. Our themes last for a week. For example, the week before last our theme was Easter and last week our theme was Spring. So for the whole week, our Reading was based on stories about Spring. Our Science was based on Spring. Even our Art was Spring related. This week, our theme is Bugs. Every day we learn about a different bug. Yesterday was Ants. So for reading we read, "The Ant and the Grasshopper". We discussed Fables and what they were. We discussed the lesson in the story and then for writing she attempted to write a fable herself. For Science, I had this great presentation I found from a University website on insects that she really enjoyed and even talked about today. The whole day was Ant themed. Even Art was the letter A turned into an anthill with ants crawling up it. And for music she learned "The Ants go Marching Home". It was a great day.

Because of the theme days, I set aside a wall for all our art projects for the theme each week. This week, I left up the Spring things from last week because they seemed to go with the bug theme from this week. Every day after art, we go to the wall and she tells me where she wants to place the new artwork from that day.

Incidentally, we were discussing family and what each family member contributes our family. In the past, she always said that I contributed things like food and keeping the house clean and love. Prince Charming was always called fun and funny. Today, during our conversation about the things that family contributes, she said that I made homeschool fun. I was so glad to hear her express for herself that she found this fun and that she was enjoying it.