Some things we've been up to

It has been so long since I last wrote that I cannot possibly begin to remember what we've been doing. The boys have really begun getting into this learning thing now and they have been really enjoying themselves with little projects

 

George 1 has been doing a pile of maths from long subtraction to decimals and minus numbers. He's taught himself largely by trying things out and asking us for help. It's been wonderful to be a part of such a huge learning curve. When he came out of school, even the slightest mention of the word learning sent him hiding under the table. Now he comes to me with topics he'd like to know more about.

 

George 2 has been continuing with Reading Eggs He is really doing well and is starting to sight read some of the common words. It is such a huge privilege to be a part of this early development. He's also busy learning to tell the time and doing fractions.

George 3, although only 2yrs old, absolutely adores sitting at the table and writing. His mark making is fabulous and he recognises his initial letter everywhere now.

Georgiana is growing and growing, quietly sitting on my knee just soaking up all the love.

So, I've decided to just use photos to show what we've been doing again. A picture speaks a thousand words anyway!



We melted wax crayons onto canvas in an art project. What amazed me was the we all did the exact same thing and yet they all came out so differently. I love them on the dining room wall.

On St George's day we read a story about St George then all 3 boys drew pictures. We then made the pictures into our own story.



George 2 decided to write a wordsearch for DadaSmu based on some work he had done about the Atlantic Ocean. He hid 4 words and did the most beautiful lettering. DadaSmu found all the words and George2 really enjoyed writing it. The hot chocolate always seems to aid concentration somewhat!



Here's George 3 doing his writing

A bit of archery in the afternoons. DadaSmu found his bow and arrows in the shed and the boys had it confirmed that he is in fact the best Daddy in the world!

Here, I wrote out some sentence strips for George 2 to put with pictures of our family doing various things.

George 1 had the same pictures but lots of individual words so that he could make some more elaborate and/or funny sentences. This kept them amused for a surprisingly long time one very wet day.

They made some air dry clay models at our home ed group one day and then painted them at home. George 2 got a fair amount of paint on his head!

Here are some Lapbooks. George 2 has done the dinosaur and Mr Gumpy's outing ones. George 1 did a week long project about roller coasters.

The dinosaur study covered geography, adjectives, reptiles and making a graph showing the sizes of dinosaurs.

The project on roller coasters led to a study of Sir Isaac Newton, history, geography, graph making and lots of new word definitions

Mr Gumpy's Outing covered maths (addition and multiplication), geography (river terms), different types of boats and the definition of mammals

Lapbooks are a fabulous way of learning. The next one we do will be about the Olympics. 

Georgiana is just growing and looking pretty

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