tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15975404167236285042024-03-17T20:03:27.884-07:00Homeschool Escapadeescapade: n. a piece of daring or reckless behaviour. How many times have you been labelled as mad or reckless because you homeschool?
Well I say its time to break down those notions - Bring on the Madness !Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-53062537633783949242017-01-12T06:16:00.000-08:002017-01-12T06:16:03.466-08:00Homeschool gigglesJust been listening to Lilly telling off her math lesson<br />
"Phillip don't do it - it's a really bad deal, don't be stupid it's not worth it"<br />
Had to take a peak - she's doing compound interest and Philip would pay an extra 2k back on a 6k car loan. Good to know she has her priorities rightZeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com180tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-40779580852623769782016-11-12T12:26:00.001-08:002016-11-12T12:26:21.077-08:00Amusing mathThe girls were singing 10 green bottles yesterday and to my amusement (and suffering) when they got to 'no green bottles hanging on the wall' (and I'd almost breathed a sigh of relief) they created a new set of verses 'and if one more should accidentally fall, we'd have negative one green bottl hanging on the wall' (all the way to negative ten)Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-61890659849368941352016-11-04T09:36:00.002-07:002016-11-04T09:36:14.469-07:00Homeschool Legacy - Victoria and her World<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />History is one of our favourite subjects so we were pleased to be offered the chance to review <a href="http://homeschoollegacy.com/">Homeschool Legacy</a> products. We chose <a href="http://homeschoollegacy.com/product/victoria-and-her-world-once-a-week-micro-study-grades-1-8/">Victoria and Her World</a> Once-a-Week Micro-Studies because it tied in nicely with our current studies. There were a number of other choices available including Once-a-Week Unit Study: Christmas Comes to America and Once-a-Week Micro-Studies Pirates or Privateers: You Decide, Cooking up History with<a href="http://homeschoollegacy.com/product/cooking-up-history-with-the-founding-presidents/"> </a>the Founding Presidents and Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims (so be sure to check out my crew mates reviews if those titles would be of interest)<br /><br /><br />Once-a-Week Micro-Studies are small unit studies in that provide three 30-minute lessons per week. They are designed to give you an introduction to history and are easy and simple to use (hardly any prep needed). Victoria and Her World arrived as a 18 page pdf covering Victorian England, it's full of links so we found it easier to view online but it's just as easy to use if you decide to print.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's broken down into four weeks</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week one - gives a basic overview of literature, music, government and geography of Victoran England.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week two - looks at the background of Victoria, fashion of the time, art, printable timeline and history.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week three - discusses the royal family, Christmas traditions, toys and recipes </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week four - cover challenges Victoria faced, games, toys (including making a zoetrope), industrial revolution and another recipie suggestion for afternoon tea.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lessons are designed to be fairly quick (30 mins, three times a week) and give a great introduction to Victorian society - they are very easy to extend if you wish.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girls favourite activites were the Christmas related ones, they especially loved making all the decorations. </span></div>
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-21641827786087853612016-10-30T13:24:00.002-07:002016-10-30T13:24:15.082-07:00Sewing lesson resultsWe've had a busy week getting ready for Rose's baptism but I wanted to share how impressed I have been with her sewing skills - from the earliest lessons with their sewing teacher, to putting zips in, to sewing button holes and learning how to draw a pattern - she has loved every minute and used so many of her new skills to sew her baptism dress :)<br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-78201876445214416672016-10-19T04:29:00.001-07:002016-10-19T04:29:32.957-07:00Educeri Lesson Subscription Service - Homeschool Review Crew<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I often find myself trawling the Internet for ideas and lesson plans, so when the chance came to review the <a href="https://teach.educeri.com/lesson/" target="_blank">Educeri Lesson Subscription Service</a> from <a href="https://educeri.com/" target="_blank">Educeri ....... Educeri a division of DataWORKS</a> I was keen to give it a go. I was given a 12 month subscription to review.<br /></span><br />
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Educeri is an online site full of ready to teach lesson plans. They currently have over a thousand lessons available across grades K-12 covering topics in;<br /><ul>
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<li>Music</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>English Language Development</li>
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The site is fairly easy to navigate. Once logged in you can choose to view all lessons, browse by topic, browse by grade or search for a specific lesson. You simply click 'Teach Lesson' to view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lesson is presented like a slide show and you have to click to move to the next slide. Each page usually has a few sentences of information, some helpful tips (in boxes) and some problems shown underneath. After you have read the information and worked out the answers, you click and the next few slides walk you step by step systematically through the problem. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are marker and eraser functions you can use through the mouse control but we found it easier to just say the answer and click to see it solved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />We used Educeri as a supplement to our existing lessons, for example Rose has been looking at quadrilaterals in geometry and I found a lesson that tied in perfectly.<br /></span><br />
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The lessons aren't really interactive but I sat with her and helped her read the info and she took great pleasure in 'seeing' if her answer was correct as she clicked to the next slide.<br /><br />Whereas Sunflower was quiet capable of using this on her own, she just browsed the list and picked out lessons that she wanted (I did set her a few to supplement areas we were currently studying) - she particularly loved the lesson on Australian Indigenous Rock Art.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I was so excited to get a chance to review the <a href="https://christianfilmmakers.mykajabi.com/">Online Christian Filmmakers Academy</a> from Family Gravity Media, a division of Families For Christ Ministries, Inc. Sunflower is doing an arts award in film and has been begging for a programme like this, in fact she squealed when I told her what we were going to review.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The Online Christian Filmmakers Academy has been created by Ken and Zac Lawrence, a father and son team who have been producing, acting and directing since 2004 and have run numerous film camps. They took their combined experience and created an amazing online film school.<br /><br />The course starts with an introductory video and is then broken down into 5 modules</span><br />
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<li>Cinematography and Lighting - consists of 15 lessons and covers topics including; hard & soft light, types of light, painting with light, framing, depth of field, green screen, setting up an interview and more.</li>
<li>Sound - has 6 lessons covering sound equipment, microphones, field recorders, location recording etc.</li>
<li>Pre-production - this has 5 lessons covering various aspects of writing the Screenplay, paperwork, creating the team etc.</li>
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The Modules are easy to navigate (and are even marked off when you have completed them) and each lesson ranges in length from 2 - 25 mins and show some great hands on examples and tips. Once a lesson video has been watched there are various download bonus templates, documents and interviews with a quiz at the end of each module.</div>
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The lessons are packed full of information but so easy to follow that even a novice like me has improved. I loved that you can move through at your own pace and that the entire family can all use the same subscription (lovely cost saving). They really impressed me with the level of examples shown and that they have even thought about the type of basic equipment you would have available at home (camera and lights) and included suggestions for how to improve basic equipment (plans for a PVC shoulder rig anyone?). </span></div>
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-13895166013655657892016-10-07T11:09:00.002-07:002016-10-07T11:16:12.810-07:00Everyday Education, LLC - Homeschool Reveiw Crew<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> My strengths lie in the sciences and math, not language arts.I am aware that we haven't studied how to write essays and we have only dabbled in grammar so when the chance came to review <a href="http://everyday-education.com/" target="_blank">Everyday Education, LLC</a> I was keen to jump on board. We chose <a href="http://everyday-education.com/product/handbook-for-writers-excellence-in-literature/" target="_blank">Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers</a> (high school into college) in the hope it would pull my skills up to speed and give Lilly (14) a head start. </span><br />
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<li>Phrases, Clauses, Sentences - covering citations, compound subjects,scientific/technical writing, literary analysis, sentence classification, complex sentences, punctuation etc. </li>
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<li>Modifiers, Gerunds, Infinitives </li>
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The Handbook for writers is the most complete writing resource l have ever seen and has already delivered results. Lilly read through a couple of sections on literary analysis which have helped her immensely with her coursework. The Handbook is amazingly adaptable, it can be a basis for lessons, can be used independently or you can just dip in and out for helpful tips and corrections. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> You can see what my crew mates thought of this, Perfect Reading and Working it Out: Poetry Analysis</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> over at the </span><a href="http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/beautiful-handwriting-literature-and-poetry-everyday-education-llc/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Homeschool Review Crew</a><br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-46295994908635878012016-09-18T12:08:00.002-07:002016-09-18T12:10:23.415-07:00You've gotta love homeschooling....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.... when it looks like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all our readings, the fact that appealed to the girls most was that he used to do his working out in sand and used different coloured sands - it's even resulted in our old sand tray making a come back :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first activity used graph paper to prove <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">a<sup>2</sup> +b<sup>2</sup> = c<sup>2</sup></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We draw a triangle and then used graph paper to draw a square for each side, they chopped up square a and b to fit inside square c. They finished by making a poster.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CHSH-Teach.com is the creation of homeschooler, Lynda Ackert. She decided to put her love of creating to good use and designed a website that acts as a hub for all her educational resources - it has over 50,000 down loadable pages including; worksheets, lapbooks, flashcards, notebook pages, reading comprehension, languages, writing prompts, workbooks, posters and many more. It even remembers us and has pages of organisational materials including; planning forms, graphic organisers, awards and calendars as well as daily devotionals and discussion forums. Lynda is continuously adding new contents to the site as she creates them so the list is ever evolving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CHSH-Teach.com is incredibly easy to use. Once you have registered online created your account you can browse the resource bank and search by subject, search by topic or keyword, search by grade level or search by monthly events. The subjects are broken down into the main topics areas of Bible Related Resources, Languages, Arts Music and Crafts, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Electives, Health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can opt to search by grade level - Kindergarden, 1st-3rd grades, 4th-8th grades, 9th-12th grades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are after simple worksheets for practise or for a more complete lesson plan - its all here. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For example the Industrial Revolution pack we used is a 24 page pack including reading, questions, vocab, timelines, discussions, reading comprehension and more. There are a number of additional worksheets and activities to go alongside the main pack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've got to be honest and say I'm very impressed with CHSH-Teach.com - whatever we are studying there seems to be something here for every age group. I love that its all in one place and saves me hours of trawling the Internet for suitable materials and I love how versatile it is, whether we want to do lapbooking, notebooking, worksheets, discuss, fill in the blanks, narrate etc. there is something in the hub to use. It makes it so much simpler to homeschool and teach your children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CHSH-Teach.com offers an annual subscription fee of <a href="http://christianhomeschoolhub.com/pt/How-to-Subscribe-to-the-CHSH-Download-Club/wiki.htm" target="_blank"> $25</a> or for lifetime only for $99.99. They have freebies so you can trial the site and they have options to buy individual worksheets or workbooks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see what my crew mates thought over at the <a href="http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/christian-homeschool-hub-download-club/" target="_blank">TOS Blog</a>.</span><br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-14073537548703554052016-08-31T11:33:00.003-07:002016-08-31T11:33:41.730-07:00Fruit Clock<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our time spent playing with electricity last week has lead to lots more - the girls favourite was a citrus clock they made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It happily kept time for 6 days and 11 hours before it died.</span>Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-32748886824545712292016-08-30T12:30:00.001-07:002016-08-30T12:30:30.315-07:00Bones, our improved geodesic dome and playing with electricity<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our randomness continues with bone explorations this week - looking at skeletons, structure of bones and 'melting' (aka bending) a bone in vinegar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We restarted our done using drinking straws working on inter spacing pentagons and triangles which is working beautifully apart from running out of straws (over 100 used so far).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This led to some further experiments with the conductivity of water and discovering that distilled/pure water doesn't conduct electricity (it only conducts if it contain minerals or salts) but the girls decided that if there is water on the floor you still need to keep away from electricity as it's unlikely to be pure so you still won't be safe :)</span>Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-5392589473943620472016-08-21T12:53:00.001-07:002016-08-21T12:53:27.431-07:00Water Filters, Skittles and starting our Geodesic Dome<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose has tons of random experiments she wants to do so we said as its summer she can do as many as she likes - hence why this week we had to build her water filter, then improve it so it would actually clean muddy water, start a geodesic dome (you may see more of that next week if she can get it to work) and play with the rainbow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her first water filter was large pebbles, small gravel, sponge and filter paper - it only filtered some of the mud out so she set off to find out how to make it better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trial and error (best way to learn) ended up with the first layer being the pebbles and gravel, the second layer was sand, third was sponge again but she used a lot more and the final layer was 4 layers of filter paper - it was much slower to filter but the water was sparkling :)</span><br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-24422295421960899582016-08-14T10:34:00.001-07:002016-08-14T10:34:27.281-07:00You gotta smile when........your daughter decides writing her new joke out counts as her creative writing for the day and when you agree she tries to push for it counting as maths too :)<br />
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Why is a dog so long?<br />
He has 4 feet.Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-91497911429794289792016-08-08T00:20:00.001-07:002016-08-08T00:52:05.131-07:00Bat Camp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our last home ed camp of the summer was Bat Camp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We learnt about nocturnal creatures,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">made moth lure from molasses, sugar, mashed banana and coke which the kids placed on strategic tree stumps and fence posts (you use a red light to view them which is just a torch covered in red plastic),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">set up a moth trap (and spent the next morning identifying the types caught - there were 18 in the trap across 8 species - before releasing them back into the wild),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We loved reviewing Orphs of the Woodlands by </span><a href="https://startoaster.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Star Toaster </a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so when we were offered the chance to review their new product, an interactive app called </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphs-of-the-woodlands/id1119393049?mt=8" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orphs of the Woodlands at Tangletree</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I had some very excited girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This new game is designed for elementary children so I signed up Tulip and Rose (9 & 7). Both have really loved this but I am getting ahead of myself.<br /><br />The Orphs of the Woodlands at Tangletree is an app designed to look like a book that teaches as you read, during the story you are introduced to various concepts (usually highlighted words or phrases) that link to explanations, new pages of examples or video lessons.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story focuses on Abba and Hatta's rescue and subsequent care of the baby Orphs, all the while trying to help those effected by a flood and solve a few mysteries. The plot is engaging and really sparked the girls imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you read and learn from the interactive story, you are offered jobs / tasks in town, these jobs earn you stars which provide you with supplies you use to feed and clothe the Orph babies you have rescued from the flood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> The set up is really easy as is the navigation - there are four icons at the bottom of the screen; the compass takes you to a map, the book takes your current place in the story, the tree shows you what you need to buy to provide a safe haven for the Orphs </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the star takes you to town where you earn your stars. Pages in the book are turned using the green arrows on the page and you can move forward or backwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> When you visit Stumptown, all the shops have a little number above that indicate the numbers of jobs available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Clicking on the building takes you to the jobs they have available and also offers some job training (it's just a repeat of the things they learnt in the story and the videos but the repetition really helped cement the facts). There were loads of topics covered which included vocabulary, zoology, morals, character, grammar, science and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I have loved this app, I enjoyed it so much that I sat alongside them as they were reading it however this is a product they could easily have used unsupervised, they even have a section where you can view their progress and work so you can keep track of what they are doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The girls have really taken to the story and Rose was so impressed by Abba that she spent 3 days dressed as a flying squirrel (although she wasn't happy that she didn't have a green cape).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see what my crewmates thought over at the <a href="http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/orphs-of-the-woodlands-at-tanglegate-star-toaster-review/" target="_blank">TOS Blog</a>.</span></div>
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-77377686526631580002016-07-24T12:43:00.003-07:002016-07-24T12:43:56.677-07:00Bugs and Camping<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Camping season continues and we just got back from a homeschool camp that was full of learning activities (paper making, stomp planes, metal mobile making, bathbombs, weaving, knitting, wild walks etc) but the activity that appealed most to my girls was of their own creation - bug hunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They spent days with their group catching moths, butterflies, grasshoppers, beetles and even tadpoles (I know they aren't a bug but they still were super excited to catch them). Their favourite was a grasshopper who only had one of his big legs (called sir hop a lot) who they observed for hours before releasing him - we even had to look up grasshopper diets so they could feed him before his release. I love when they teach themselves <b>:)</b></span><br />
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<br />Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-25699919301448063882016-07-20T04:54:00.001-07:002016-07-20T04:54:10.114-07:00You gotta smile when........ discussing how some children's elbows work differently when they hold their arm straight, Lilly says 'it's because of evolution' and my reply 'how ?' results in me being told 'their environment is altering them cause they have to put their hands up so much at school, you know to ask to go to the toilet and stuff'<br />
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Her reasoning is sound apparently because all the kids she knows who go to school have weird elbows (I fall into that category too because I went to school) but her homeschool friends don't.Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-65081814716606808942016-07-11T23:32:00.000-07:002016-07-11T23:32:01.486-07:00ArtAchieve - TOS Review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art is not my strength but the girls love it. I've always struggled to come up with any lesson plans so I was very happy (and so were the girls) when the chance came up to review <a href="https://artachieve.com/bundled-lessons/entire-level-ii" target="_blank">Entire Level ll </a> from <a href="https://artachieve.com/" target="_blank">ArtAchieve.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ArtAchieve is a complete homeschool art curriculum providing drawing lessons for kids (and adults), it was created by John Hofland (a veteran homeschooler) who firmly believes that anyone can learn to draw, that drawing is essential skill and that like math, that skill can be taught. Puling on his combined experiences of teaching in school, homeschooling and studying with the masters he has created a hassle free on line curriculum that does the teaching for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We received a years access to the Entire Level ll for review. Its so simple to use - you literally create an account and the lessons are all on line and available once you have logged in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 14 lessons in level 2. You can opt to print a pdf of the lesson or watch a video (approx 25 mins) outlining it step by step. Each lesson starts with some tips on how to relax and prepare yourself mentally and physically for
art - my favourite tip was when he said to paint/draw without talking to
improve concentration and to see the girls take this on board while I sat enjoying
the silence while they worked (Sunflower even told her sisters
"please be quiet, I need to concentrate"). Next comes a 'warm up' which is a grid with some of the squares containing elements from the picture for you to copy, then it moves on to discussing different aspects of art like types of lines, motifs etc before showing you how to draw. Lessons also include elements of geography, history or literature which are a great addition (I love sneaking in extra lessons) and he even has a play list of inspirational music to help you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lessons are professional, engaging and memorable (I've spotted Rose using one of his relaxation techniques when her sisters were annoying her) - they are so easy to use and I was really impressed with how someone with no historical art skills (me) could even produce an amazing piece of art and enjoy doing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This really has been so simple to incorporate into our schedule, the girls have loved this and it has fast become a firm favourite in our house. Lilly has spent hours working on minute detail within her pictures and has adopted a couple of his techniques in her various doodles. Sunflower said that this was the best lesson of the week while Rose has requested to do more. Tulip summed it all up nicely when she said 'I never knew that art was so much fun - can you get me some more paints'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved the confidence it gave me to include art in our weekly schedule and I loved the impact it had on the girls. I was also impressed by how varied their work was even though they were working from the same instructions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ArtAchieve Entire Level ll is available for<a href="https://artachieve.com/bundled-lessons" target="_blank"> $53</a> and there are various different options to buy (including single lessons).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see what my crew mates thought over at the <a href="http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/art-lessons-for-children-artachieve-review/" target="_blank">TOS Blog</a></span><br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-37179962084329124852016-07-10T12:54:00.002-07:002016-07-10T12:54:42.166-07:00Tis that time of year....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.... when we go on the home ed camps, our first this year was the craft group camp where we worked on some Viking weaving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are the instructions for <a href="http://www.yac-uk.org/activity/viking-cord-winding" target="_blank">Viking Cord Weaving</a> </span></div>
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-76847343260471399752016-06-30T06:32:00.000-07:002016-06-30T06:32:02.593-07:00Spray can art<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to a fab workshop where the girls learnt to use aerosol's to make pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They started by lightly spaying black over their paper, then white over the black and used crumpled paper to texture it, next </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they masked off a circle (lid/plate etc) and sprayed over in black paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To finish they sprayed their fingers and splattered white paint to make the stars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few kids took it a step further and created backdrops and landscapes to go with their moon.</span><br />
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Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-22884446320653924312016-06-30T02:48:00.000-07:002016-06-30T02:50:27.403-07:00Notebooking Pages - TOS Review<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We do lots of notebooking here, this means I've spent hours scouring the internet for pages that would work for us or having to design them. Thankfully that part of my life is over now we've been given a <a href="http://notebookingpages.com/memberships">Notebooking Pages Lifetime Membership</a> for <a href="http://notebookingpages.com/">NotebookingPages.com </a>to review.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notebooking is an amazing way to cut out the busy work and really improve your learning, it's flexible, creative and is an excellent way for journaling your students work. Notebooking can be used to assist hand writing, copywork, vocab or spelling lessons, map work, history, grammar, project work, unit studies and more. It can be used for all topics and fits in with many learning styles and most curriculum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NotebookingPages.com was created by Debra Reed, a homeschool Mum of ten, she has designed vast array of notebooking pages for your use. There are thousands of topics to choose from and they are divided into subjects for ease of navigation, these include;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any Study (generic pages, mini-books and 3D pages) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A-Z (alphabet copy work, A-Z animals, A-Z sports, A-Z transportation)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bible/character</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Famous People</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fine Arts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geography</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">History</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Holidays</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Language Arts</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debra's pages are well thought out, she seems to have thought of everything - some are plain, others include spaces to draw in or stick pictures in, some have beautiful images for the child to colour in, still more have fill in the blank spaces and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was very impressed by both the range available and the quality. I loved that she had created an easy start guide and tutorials to help those who haven't notebooked before. I received a number of emailed tips and video links when I first signed up which were very useful.<br /><br />My favourite aspect by far was that all the work was done for me, I no longer have to trawl various sites to try and find something suitable - its all in one place, there is a massive variety to choose from and it only takes seconds to download. You just need to pick and choose what page layout and style will work best for your students.<br /> <br /> Debra has even added lapbook templates including mini layered books, matchbook books, popup book, top tab books and bordered templates, which you can use to make your own lapbooks. <br /><br />The lifetime membership is available for<a href="http://notebookingpages.com/memberships" target="_blank"> $97</a> which full you full access to all the notebooking pages and any new ones that are added. She even has some <a href="http://ayered mini books, matchbook mini books, mini book, popup mini book, shutter fold and top tab books. There are also load of bordered templates to pick from so that your students illustrations, maps and artwork " target="_blank">free resources</a> for you to try so you can see how it works for your family.</span><br />
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<br />Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-8951288446910260652016-06-26T11:33:00.002-07:002016-06-26T11:33:29.968-07:00You gotta smile when....... your 7 year old tells you off in disgust for saying 'it's raining' and says ' it's precipitating - you should know because you taught me'Zeldahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362055791403406987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597540416723628504.post-55942376788714969542016-06-24T11:04:00.006-07:002016-06-24T11:13:13.371-07:00My School Year (Homeschool Record Keeping) - TOS Review<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />We've had the opportunity to review <a href="https://www.myschoolyear.com/Tour" target="_blank">My School Year (Homeschool Record Keeping)</a> from <a href="https://www.myschoolyear.com/" target="_blank">MySchoolYear.com</a> over the last few weeks. We received the Annual Membership to review. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MySchoolYear.com is an online lesson planner and record keeper. It's site offers many different tools to help keep your homeschool organised, help you know </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what is overdue, current and upcoming and to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">search, filter or sort lessons. These include;<br /><br />Attendance - the automatic attendance will keep track of hours as well.<br />Lesson Planning - it can be used to create lesson plans and will reschedule lessons if you fall behind. It also lets you share and copy lesson plans for multiple students.<br />Reports - create transcripts, report cards etc.<br />Tracker - you can keep track of events, awards, sports, community work and any other extracurricular activities. It also tracks reading lists and there is an option to create materials lists as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You start by entering your homeschool information - name, school year, schedule, holidays etc. Then you start adding your students names and their subject, this does take some time so I would advise you find a nice quiet evening and sit down with a hot drink.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> There are some shortcuts that they have designed to make filling in this section easier (you have to enter lessons and times for each individual subject and student) called Quick Split and Rapid Repeat. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quick Split works by letting you divide a book into sections by day or lesson while Rapid Repeat repeats an assignment automatically adding the next lesson number for you (read chapter 1, read chapter 2 etc) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a well designed and well thought out program - they have made it as easy to use as possible and I was impressed with the Teachers Aid - it provided reminders and prompts that helped with the site navigation, it also sensed when I missed entering a piece of information or grade and alerted me so I could stay on top of things. I'm lucky that I don't need to keep records but if you do need to keep records, create reports or keep track of attendance then I can see how this would be really beneficial to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /> I really liked having the option to track and include sports and volunteer work for the girls but my favourite section was the Reading Log, it is really simple to use and you can enter as much or as little info as you like - you can assign start or end dates, chapters, genre, assign pages or you can just enter title and completion date. Personally I liked that I could enter the price and keep track of my budgeting (I have a real weakness for book buying so it helped keep me in check).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some nice perks of the program are it's compatibility for use with iphones so it can let you and your students know what you need to do even when you are on the go and it protects all your records so no more worries about crashes or viruses ruining your records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MySchoolYear.com is available for a monthly fee of <a href="https://www.myschoolyear.com/Plans">$5 </a>or a yearly price of <a href="https://www.myschoolyear.com/Plans">$40.</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see what my crewmates thought over at the <a href="http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/homeschool-record-keeping-myschoolyear-com-review/">TOS Blog</a></span><br />
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