Thursday, October 27, 2011

Homeschool Helps

I am five years into this homeschool journey and still learning my way.

Here are a few of my new favorites that we are enjoying!

Charlotte Mason - Outdoor Secrets
 We are enjoying reading these short stories together. The stories we are doing now all have to do with apples. Some of the activities we have done are visit the farmers market, find the star in the apple, tasting different kinds of apples, and we visited the apple orchard in August.

Picture Study in a Jar
This is a great sitting around eating breakfast/lunch activity. We have small prints of famous paintings and questions in a jar. The kids loved the Art Museum so we are running with that and trying to get them looking at famous artwork and paying attention to the details.

30 minutes of quiet time after lunch!
My kids are long removed from the napping stage but I have found we all need a little quiet time in the afternoon. They are allowed to read or draw during this time. Of course everyone goes to a different room to make it work.








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