I'm jumping onboard a monthly wrap-up post meme run by "Our Worldwide Classroom". So here's Billy's February...
February has involved many days out:
An excursion to Tocal Homestead - learning about Australian history
A local art show
Homeschooler's swimming carnival
'Nerf' war day with the homeschoolers
Cubs has provided plenty of fun and learning opportunities:
Making chariots with lashing and trying them out
Learning how to roll and break the flag correctly
A weekend cub leadership course - first night away from home without family! (A big milestone for him - and me!)
They did many team and leadership activities, as well as cooking, learning about the flag, knots, trail signs. They even got to watch a movie!
Weekly activities are back into full swing - dragons martial arts, archery and drama. He's moved up to the Yr 5/6 drama class and is absolutely loving it. He loves the teacher, loves what they're doing and has friends in the class.
We're focusing on a few areas this year as far as 'intentional learning' goes:
Australian history
Watched the complete My Place series 1, and several episodes so far of series 2.
Reading the book of My Place by Nadia Wheatley.
The visit (mentioned above) to Tocal Homestead
Computers
Billy's been continuing to create plugins for Minecraft using Java. He's been modifying one of his old ones with my help (I have to learn it as I go!), and has created a new one entirely on his own.
He's been using Corel Video Studio to create video intros for the start of the tutorials etc he creates and puts on YouTube.
He's been researching how to create apps for an Android phone.
2 comments:
Sounds like a busy month too!
Thanks for joining in Kez :-)
That's a lot of good stuff in just one month! Looks like a lot of fun was had too.
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