Homeschooling Monthly Memories - June 2012

June was a big month!

Cubs 'Curriculum':

Science Experiments

Polymers - skewer through a balloon

Carbon Dioxide extinguishing flames

Bicarb and vinegar rockets

Making tin-can telephones

Other

Gold Boomerang Camp (for the older cubs) - activities included building fires, knots, compass work, plus a trip to the Fire Station where they got to use the hoses (water & foam).

Map and compass work

Intentional Learning:

Creative Arts

Taking photos

Stage Combat workshop

Attending a photography exhibit at Wallsend Library

Attended a local production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

• Learning lines and auditioning for Peter Pan
• Trip to Maitland Art Gallery
  
  

History

• Australian history



Rocks walking tour.

• Continuing our reading of Thomas Appleby - Convict Boy by Jackie French
  
  

Computers

• Billy's been continuing to create plugins and mods for Minecraft using Java. 
  
  

Maths

• Working through the Murderous Maths book 'Awesome Arithmetricks' 
• Equations - Inequality, commutative law
• Cubed numbers

Science

Observation of rock pools

Transit of Venus at Sydney Observatory

Partial lunar eclipse

• Circuit making

Reading

• Finished reading Book 1 of the Rangers Apprentice series - The Ruins of Gorlan.
• Listening to the Alex Rider series and the Diamond Brothers series by Anthony Horowitz

As well as the usual:

• martial arts, circus, archery and AFL
• time spent hanging out with friends
• and some cooking

Spinning plates as a group at circus

Pasta making