A Home Even Oscar Would Love!

For Art today, the girls decided to paint the trash can. The best way to hide the dirt!

What do ya' think, too pretty for Oscar's taste?

Here's what else we have done today:
Made banana pudding




I caught her licking the bowl-she said "I'm innocent!!"
We also finished up with lizards and other reptiles and worked on math. Later today, she gets a sewing lesson.

Field Trip to Jones Gap State Park

Yesterday I took the girls on a little field trip to the mountains. Luckily, we are very close-45 minutes. It was cooold but we had so much fun. Maddie found some great things to try to identify. Including, a tree that looks very interesting!

Oh, I believe in Yesterday.....

I was too pooped last night to post....We had a good day yesterday.

• Practiced flash cards
• started a dream catcher
• Reading from Hatching Magic
• Started developing characters for a play (I get to be in it!!!)
• Planned our hiking trip (today!!)
• Went to the pet store, played with the puppies and bought some crickets for Leo
  

Wacky weekends, batman!

So, I basically am MIA during the weekend because of work. But, here is a conglomerate of what Maddie was working on Fri-Sun:

• Fact Monster addition
• Reading Hatching Magic
• Writing summary about Hatching Magic
• Drawing some fairies on mushrooms
• Wrote her pen pal
• Choreographed an interpretive dance piece for her and her sister to this Songs of Disney movies CD

Wow

This weather is kinda freaking me out! In the 70s again!! We spent a lot of outside time today, gotta take advantage of it while it lasts!

• more gardening
• Started reading a new book-title escapes me at the moment....
• Did a little write up on bull frogs
• Worked on Math facts
• play play play!!

Slow day....

Not too much going on today:

• Finished reading The Plant That Ate The Dirty Socks
• Wrote why she liked the book and some hypothetical questions and answers
• Observed her lizard eating a new type of food
• Practiced math on www.numbernuts.com
• Sketched some dogs and cats
• Played outside with her sister
  

The Beauty Of It All......

Oh, it was so pretty outside today! We spent most of the day out in the sun. 70 degrees in January, you can't ask for more.

Today we:

• Practiced yoga
  
• Rode bikes

• dug gardens (math and science)

• She did some math quizzes on www.numbernuts.com
• Practiced guitar
  
• She drew out her garden plot to scale in her graph notebook. She'll use it to plan her garden
• She wrote some more in her story
• Reading

Cleaning and Reorganizing.....

Has taken up most of this day so far. I got two new pieces of furniture (for free!) and we are trying to make room for them.

Maddie's work as of now (will edit as she does more):

• laundry (home economics)
• Cleaning and organizing her desk
• Starting a story based off of The Swan Princess story line
• Played some math games on Cool Math and Fun Brain
  
• Researched on how to train and handle a Leopard Gecko (her birthday present)
• Played around with some typing lessons
• Rode her bike for 15 minutes (PE)
• Practiced her guitar for 10 minutes
  

New Day, New Year, New School

Frightening and exciting! Today is the first day of homeschooling! I plan on using this blog to keep records and track our journey down the wonderful path that is life!

Maddie woke up totally happy about school today. I'm having to work with her a bit to deschool her-she wants me to decide things for her, tell her exactly what to do, and so on. She gets a gleam of wonder in her eyes when I tell her it's her choice! For instance, she asked me what I want her to read-I told her that she was the one reading, so she should decide! Or, what kind of art project she should work on-go into the craft cabinet and do what you want!

Today she has:

• Wrote in her journal
• Wrote to her pen pal
  
• dissected a frog-not a live frog but a cool dissection kit she got for christmas. She learned several science words-and learned more about the ones she already knew. For instance, she learned that metamorphosis is from the Greek words meta and morphe. And, that amphibian is from Greek amphi and bios. I think she is going to get into etymologies soon. It seems to fascinate her. After we learned about the different organs and life cycle of the frog, she pretended it needed emergency heart surgery, so she played doctor on it for a while.

• She read a little from "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks" and wrote a bit about it

• Right now she is painting.
• After a nice break she wants to work on some math, but we might put that off until tomorrow.

Later....

• She also played her guitar for about 10 minutes
• The rest of the day was spent playing with her sister and watching a movie
  

I have a really good feeling about this.....