Special Days in June, 2014
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Author Archives: Betty Jo
Homeschooling Humor – End of the School Year Edition
Happy Monday and happy homeschooling (or happy finishing the year or happy summer school)!
betty jo
A New Kid, Birthdays, and Year End Events
It’s been a few months since I’ve actually written a post about our family and our homeschool. Normally, that would mean that all is just mundane and not blog or photo worthy. However, that’s not what my blog absence has been about, I haven’t been able to find the time to share about all that’s been going on. Today, I’ll try to fill you in some.
First, let me introduce you to MJ! She’s our family’s new job. Actually, she is a homeschool girl who is with us four days a week for tutoring while her grandmother works. These photo are of her and Z at the last homeschool fieldtrip of the school year, Stewardship Day at Shawnee National Forest.
We have a new chalkboard wall mural that goes along with our Lewis and Clark, Oregon Trail, and Westward Journey studies.
We’ve been working on improvements to our key hole garden. The stone looks wonderful and made the best Mother’s Day present! The flowers are quite nice, too.
This next photo is E and B with SALT, (our homeschool support groups drama co-op) at the final performance of the year. And, it’s sad that this was E’s very last performance with them. Now that she’s graduating, she’ll not be in the troop. Being involved with creative ministries and drama certainly has been one of her favorite activities of her homeschooling career.
And, here’s a few of the pics from the spring formal.
Both of my youngest boys had birthdays! Z turned 9 and J turned 11.
These next photos are of Silver Lining (homeschool color guard) at their spring show, “Storms of Life”. Though, this was E’s last performance with them, she is planning to stay involved with the group as an assistant coach.
And Silver Lining’s honor and awards banquet
There’s just one more event to add to this year’s homeschooling year, graduation and achievement night. The plans are set and all will be ready for the big night, this coming up Friday. I’ll be sure to share those photos then.
betty jo
World Turtle Day
May 23rd is “World Turtle Day”. The following is last year’s post. I checked the links and all of them are still active. It was a great study.
According to my special days calendar, May 23 is World Turtle Day! I have found some great free resource links to follow as we learn about turtles in our homeschool with a one day only mini unit study.
Lapbook from here http://www.homeschoolshare.com/turtles.php
Much about turtles, conservation, rescue, and more here http://www.seaturtleinc.org/
More cool turtle stuff here http://www.conserveturtles.org/turtletides.php
Something challenging for an art project here http://spoonful.com/printables/make-origami-turtle
Turtle jokes for Z from here http://www.gogonews.com/posts-Turtle+Jokes!-6460.html
“What kind of jokes do turtles tell? SHELL-arious ones!”
And finally a notebooking page for a journal entry about turtles from here http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sea_turtle_writing_paper.htm
It looks like we’ve got science, language arts, computer lab, art, and fun covered for our homeschool summer school today!
betty jo
Homeschooling Humor
Thanks again to all of you who share these funnies with me.
Have a happy Monday and a great homeschooling week!
betty jo
Homeschooling Humor – Mother’s Edition
I hope Mother’s Day was fabulous. Have a happy Monday and a great week!
betty jo
Homeschooling Humor
Have a happy Monday and a happy rest of the week, too!
betty jo
It’s Unanimous For Strawberries!
At the beginning of each month I go through the special days listing, and check off what I think we should add to our studies. I also give the list to the kids and they check off the topics that interest them. (https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/04/29/special-days-in-may/). Rarely does a monthly theme interest all of us, but the May food theme, STRAWBERRIES, was unanimous!
This close to the end of our school year, I really won’t have the time to develop our own strawberry study, but can not just ignore the fact that we all want to explore this favorite food. This is where my friend, Fran, comes in! (http://www.franw.com/) She has developed and published an e-book appropriately named Strawberry Craze.
Strawberry Craze is a 91 page study and activity guide. Fran has graciously given me a copy and I’m so excited! It is covers subjects across the curriculum and has something for all ages. She gives the instructions for crafts, gardening, and science experiments. She has included a list of questions for research projects and little known facts and trivia. Strawberry Craze has math, health, and language connections, too. And recipes! Not just a couple of yummy desserts to try, but recipes for lip gloss, scratch-n-sniff stickers, shampoo, and play clay, just to name a few.
Strawberries have been added to the top of my weekend shopping list! And will probably be repeated on every grocery list in between now and when we are able to pick our own from our garden.
Now is the right time to pick up a copy of the e-book for yourself. It’s being offered for only $2! To find out more and take a peek at some sample pages click here http://www.franw.com/2013/09/strawberry-craze-ebook.html
Oh, by the way, Fran gave me Strawberry Craze just because she’s my friend. The e-book gift was not given to me for the purpose of this review. The review and recommendation is completely of my own doing.
betty jo
Homeschoolig Humor
This collection of people who make homeschooling harder is clever, but it’s also true. I saw myself in a couple of them. http://www.homeschooldiaries.com/10-people-who-make-homeschooling-harder/
Happy Monday, and have a great homeschooling week,
betty jo
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare
These are our study links from last spring. I checked them, and all of them are still working.
William Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564. We will be studying his life and works for our homeschooling lessons as part of our Renaissance Unit Studies.
We will be linking here for part of our learning http://www.folger.edu/Content/Teach-and-Learn/Shakespeare-for-Kids/
And taking a virtual tour of Stratford Upon Avon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D57ji9MnM2U
And we will be printing notebooking pages from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/shakespeare_notebook_pages.php
And playing some of these online puzzles and games for fun http://www.folger.edu/education/sfk_kids/
For the younger boys, Wishbone Shakespaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MsSMBrkHWI&list=PLA95D27DD44814AB9
Of course, we will bake a cake, because studying anyone on their birthday is better with cake!
betty jo
For more of our Middle Ages/Renaissance Unit Studies click https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/03/08/keeping-the-code/
And here https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/03/07/art-day-sistine-chapel-style/
And here https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/03/07/art-day-sistine-chapel-style/
And here https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/04/06/raphael/
And here https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/03/12/gothic-revival-in-western-kentucky/
Still Learning Something New 