Homeschool

Thanks for checking out this page. I hope to add interesting sites that have helped us in homeschooling. Our kids are not the traditional sit at your desk and learn. We do have times that are necessary in doing this, but we try to involve many areas of “learning” into our day.This year we are studying the Colonial Period up until the Constitution as well as learning about or States, Presidents and our own Community. It’s fun to incorporate reading literature into the time period we are learning. For a period approach in learning, check out Tapestry of Grace. I can school more than one age at the same time with adjusting the amount expected of them. Tapestry has a 4 year rotation program, so you go back and repeat every 4 years and gain more knowledge along the way a they grow older.

I am excited to have our oldest write his own book about his village. He is incorporating all his writing into small reports about different aspects of living in the village. (it’s history, daily life and happenings, and business etc.) He has also wrote out some interview questions to ask our local firemen in town. Our goal is to have a completed book with his story and pictures printed as a hard cover book for a great keepsake. We are designing it in Shutterfly where we then will print it. Here is one of his picture of the train that travels into the villiage to make it’s daily delivery to our local factory.

Here is our D. trying out Aunt Donna’s violin. He had great tone for his first try.

I will be adding some helpful links and some fun things we have done in school. Stay tuned. Here is a great link to many kid friendly sites. Instead of hunting for PBS, Webkinz, etc. I just added this to the bookmarks. http://dssdb.dynalias.com:3000/ks/ks_sites.asp

Check out Webkinz. It has been a favorite “extra” thing for our guys to do. It gives them some responsibility with their little animal, as well as learning opportunities with math review, spelling, trivia, decorating and handling money.

Webkinz comes with a secret code, and when you enter that secret code at Webkinz.com you are able to share information about your virtual pet! Along with sharing all of the details about what you have done to raise your Webkinz pet the right way, you can also answer trivia, play some of the best kids games on the internet and earn a special Webkinz specific money called Kinzcash.