Ah, back to routine!
English:
Current Readaloud: "Wind in the Willows"
Audio books: Roald Dahl & Enid Blyton.
Independent Reading: - "Victor's Challenge" by Pamela Freeman, "My Gran the Gorilla" by Jackie French
Other: Billy wrote up a report of his trip to the observatory as part of his Cub's space badge. The process included discussions about paragraphs, capitalisation and sentence structure.
Maths: He spent time using Timez Attack.
Science & Technology: Billy fulfilled the requirements for his Space Badge for cubs. He typed up a report about his trip to the observatory, wrote some facts about Mars & Saturn (two planets that he saw through the telescope on the trip), wrote up how to find the Southern cross and we made two pinhole planetariums (Southern Cross & Ursa Major).
We watched the 2nd episode of Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds - it's a fascinating series with incredible photography. This episode was about the invisible light spectrums - xrays, ultraviolet, infrared etc.
HSIE (Human Society and it's environment): We went on a visit to the Hunter Region Mail Centre with some other homeschoolers to see how the mail is sorted. It was interesting to see the machines - ones that turned all of the envelopes the same way around and checked that they had a stamp, others that sorted read the address and sorted them into the right area slot.
We also watched another 2 episodes of Horrible Histories - Groovy Greeks and Challenging China.
Creative & Practical Arts: Drama lessons started back.
Other: Billy wrote up a report of his trip to the observatory as part of his Cub's space badge. The process included discussions about paragraphs, capitalisation and sentence structure.
Maths: He spent time using Timez Attack.
Science & Technology: Billy fulfilled the requirements for his Space Badge for cubs. He typed up a report about his trip to the observatory, wrote some facts about Mars & Saturn (two planets that he saw through the telescope on the trip), wrote up how to find the Southern cross and we made two pinhole planetariums (Southern Cross & Ursa Major).
We watched the 2nd episode of Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds - it's a fascinating series with incredible photography. This episode was about the invisible light spectrums - xrays, ultraviolet, infrared etc.
HSIE (Human Society and it's environment): We went on a visit to the Hunter Region Mail Centre with some other homeschoolers to see how the mail is sorted. It was interesting to see the machines - ones that turned all of the envelopes the same way around and checked that they had a stamp, others that sorted read the address and sorted them into the right area slot.
We also watched another 2 episodes of Horrible Histories - Groovy Greeks and Challenging China.
Creative & Practical Arts: Drama lessons started back.
PDHPE (Personal Development, Health & Physical Education): Martial arts - he had his karate grading and received his orange belt. Archery & Auskick also started back, and Billy played squash with his dad.
Life skills (cooking, gardening, housekeeping): Usual chores but we need to get back into the cooking instructions.
Other fun stuff: 10 pin bowling with family, playing with friends.
3 comments:
Sounds like you slotted back into routine nicely.
We tried to organise a tour of our local postal centre but they wouldn't do it for us. They only offered to send out a postie to talk to the kids, not quite the same. :)
Interesting week! So you guys have been peeking at the skies too? :)
All looks like loads of fun... we are getting there and I'm sure given time things will settle down. I love the look of Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds and the Horrible Histories... will be introducing them to Olivia sometime. Thanks. :-)
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