Puppydogtails and lightsabers : Boy...and his friend the robot.

Well it's been forever since I wrote an entry here nonetheless things are still happening in our homeschool journey. Learning is a constant thing for me and my boys. There are so many opportunities to teach your little ones and to learn from them each day, for me finding the balance and resting in the midst of this all is hard. Our littlest boy X is growing fast, 4 months already and as for now our life feels complete.

This past week we worked on building our Robot lap book and learning more about them. We had great resources from the library that we read about all different robots, then we found some videos on youtube on the snail robot, robot wars, and we even danced like robots.
It was enough to strike the interest.

We brain stormed all about robots (blue line represented what we already knew about robots and black was what we learnt).We talked about all different types of robots, if we had any in our house, and what they can do..

Our Robots prototypes that we built.

We wrote a short story filling in the blanks about If I had a robot...

I also found this great All about me Robot templets, we filled it things like, our favorite foods, favorite animals, favorite past times, how we uniquely help others, our birthdays and so on..

Creative play..building our own robots, and then telling a story about their distinct abilities.

Creative Play

Building our Lap books.

Did you know that Robot shark is 6 ft 6 inches long..

Math: Dice Games

Little "I" found three different types of robots he was interested in: Underwater robots, Musical robots and Into the future robots. We looked at least one or two robots under the different types and wrote down some details about them. It was a lot of printing for "I" so when he was feeling burnt out I let him draw instead.

Probably the most interesting was the nanorobots that would be so tiny they could travel through your blood vessels and destroy bacteria and viruses then clump together and exit your body a certain way they are programmed...I'm not really all that interested in having tiny robots in my body...call me old fashion, I'd rather my immune system do it's job...but I'm just one person.

Then the high light of the week was putting together his very own solar powered robot, THANK GOODNESS for husbands cause I am not good with that type of stuff.

It was a great week all about Robots.

It was also our first real snow fall this past week here so the kids were outside every chance they got to go sledding,

At the craft fair ten thousand villages where he learnt about fair trade.

We had a wonderful opportunity to made some pottery pots. The boys loved moulding the clay and shaping them into little pots. They will be fired and then we will pick them up after christmas.