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.

 

We dropped off our boxes this week too, finished them off with praying and writing a little message for the boxes.

A little more crafty chalk snowmen. Big "I" helping his little brother :) 

Learning how to sew. 

Wow that was a busy week...

Grade 1 and beyond!

Hello and welcome back to year number 2 of homeschooling. Life has been a tad bit fuller now as we have added a beautiful little baby boy this summer to the addition of our family. Introducing little X.

So needless to say school here around our house did not start until really the first week of Oct. We are throughly enjoying him. I am very proud of the boys they are such great big brother and are adapting well to another little person sharing their mommy. 

School has been different this year, working around nursing, sleepless nights, and sicknesses. However we are still building memories and learning as we go (mom included).

Placing the human organs and bones in the body.

Drying our leaves after our nature hike for our nature journal .

Geo-caching is a favorite of ours todo.

And of course if you have hands on boys you have to smash the acorns you found on your nature hike.

Crafting the garden of eden. 

Harvesting our own sunflower seeds from the sunflowers the boys planted in the green house in the spring..they grew to over ten feet tall. 

Making homemade dirt volcanos 

Salmon Run 2013 

Learning about the fish and their cycle.

Orchard time!!! Picking fresh apples off the trees! 

Learning organ placement..yup and he is in grade 1...blows my MIND! 

Making rain sticks with Nana!! so fun!

Dominos..3d structures and a passion my little has!

Magnet time

More Magnetic experiments.

I have so much to add from the last month but I will put a end to our crazy extravaganza tonight and add more later.

Night! 

Praying mantis'....farm visits....& butterflies... and it's summer!!

We have had some amazing things happen in the last few weeks. We watched our butterflies larvae grow up and we learnt all about their life cycle, what they need to survive, and finally let our butterflies go, but first we offered them some yummy nectar from our lilac bush.
Here you can see one of our little  ones "drinking" up our special treat.

We had so many amazing library books that we read and learnt from. They even had two butterflies video's for the boys to watch. Mr. I was so intrigued with the monarch butterfly and their life span with their migration to Mexico.

 We worked on our butterfly lap books, learning their predators, what they eat, how long they live, and more...lap books are so much fun and they have something to be proud of and to look at when the topic is over and gone.

LOOK at that FUSSY body! 

Take a look at our butterfly lap-books...with pictures of our own larvae, chrystallis, and butterflies. 

We visited a local farm that had a agricultural days, with many attractions for the children. We saw very old vehicles along with an old fire truck which was neat to talk about how things are so different from what it use to be. We noticed how the lights, the engine, and the safety is so different now a days. 

We were able to see working horses plow a field and take a ride on the back of a horse trailer, make a life size scare crow, play old fashion games like sack racing and egg on a spoon racing, there was also baby chickens there that were only days old. It was a neat adventure to go and be apart of. 

Later in the month we had another really great opportunity to go to a fellow homeschooler s farm where we saw amazing things, like green/blue eggs from the araucana chickens, we saw a goat in labour baring down to push out the twin babies inside of her. We feed pigs, baby rabbits, and a bottle feed some super sweet baby kids. We were able to feel what eggs from a older hen compared to a younger hen felt like we saw the difference in the egg yokes and shells. 

Mr. I loved this, he wanted to get closer, watching so attentively!! 

Bottle feeding sweet little babies. 

Pigs!!!

Mr. I observing his praying mantis's 

We finished this year with a bang, lots of observing, playing and experiencing life and it's cycles. We are done for the summer and hope everyone has a wonderful safe summer, see you back in the fall. 

Oh and we also found and raised tad poles...from a local nursery. We let them go in our own pond. We learnt about their life cycle, what they eat, and watched them grow from tiny tad poles to cute little frogs. 

So much fun, watching all their different stages..

Have a great summer!