I home-school my girls 4 days a week and then on Fridays they go to school for an enrichment day so we just completed our 100th day of school (not counting Fridays). We had lots of fun and maybe even learned something! Here’s a few of our 100 day activities: They made crowns to wear. [...]
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Cause and Effect
March 11, 2012 – 2:06 pm
A couple of weeks ago we did our plant unit. Since we did the ole lima bean experiment, I decided to read the story A Bad Case of Stripes and do a cause and effect lesson I saw here. If you’ve never read the book it’s about a little girl who loves lima beans but [...]
Light Up Insects!
March 11, 2012 – 1:51 pm
We are in the middle of our insect unit (I’ll post more on our activities in the next couple of days) so when I saw these on Pinterest I had to try it. All you need are pipe cleaners, flameless LED lights, duct tape, googly eyes or markers, and a few plastic Easter eggs. 1. [...]
Seeds and Flowers
March 8, 2012 – 3:47 pm
Spring is almost here!! We started early with our unit on seeds and flowers. I figured it was fine since we live in Florida and it feels like Spring most days. We started off our unit reading The Tiny Seed and doing the good ole’ lima bean experiment. The girls chose a lima bean and [...]
Washington and Lincoln
February 18, 2012 – 9:48 pm
We spent last week learning about George Washington and Abe Lincoln. I love relearning this stuff with the girls. Here are some highlights from our week. We started off reading the book George Washington Our First President. We filled out a Was Had Wanted chart. I have been using these charts a lot lately and [...]