Homeschooling

It's not all days out, a lot of Hannah's education does take place outside of our home, such as learning to tie dye at Adventure Group on Tuesday,

but Hannah also does Language Arts, Math and Science at home. This year we are using Spectrum Grade 5 workbooks for those subjects.

Today she has covered common and proper nouns, long multiplication and scientific method.

 I like having something to follow and some sort of plan, and Hannah likes the sense of achievement when she masters something new. She has also started to appreciate the usefulness of some of the skills that she previously wasn't keen to learn! It's so lovely to see her excited about the prospect of learning new things! Homeschooling is an ever evolving journey!

A Hotchpotch Of Our Week So Far.................

Hannah and her friend (also Hannah) have been keen to do a sewing project together, and friend Hannah's mum is a really good seamstress so she offered to teach the girls some simple embroidery and sewing to make a cushion each. 

Hannah learnt to embroider 'chicken scratch' in their first lesson.

 Then at home, inspired by a science session that her friend had told her about, Hannah wanted to learn about the parts of a flower and how they grow. We found a book with a simple to follow dissection and she carefully dissected several flowers and learnt the names of all the different parts of the flowers.

This week we have also worked on multiplication,

Language Arts

             Social Studies

and Hannah has been working on a 'Little House In The Big Woods' Lapbook.

 On Tuesday at Adventure Group the children all had a chance to try pendulum art. It was a lot of messy colourful fun!!

Afterwards the two Hannah's wanted to go shopping and had so much fun trying on heels together! They were so funny modelling 4 inch stilettos and posing in front of the mirrors!

 On the way home we bought a new basket ball which Hannah took to the hoop at Grammy's house yesterday where we played a very hot game of hoops in the sunshine!

and that is our week so far!

Daily Lessons

We are quite relaxed homeschoolers and mainly child led, but I do try to make sure that Hannah does some maths and some language arts every day to get her started. Sometimes it doesn't work out and we skip a day in favour of a field trip or activity, but today was one of those days where it all went pretty well so I took some pictures!!

In maths, Hannah is learning multiplication and finds her cuisenaire rods really helpful when it comes to the bigger numbers.

In Language arts she is learning about plurals and nouns and practising her writing.

So, how does Hannah like her lessons?

I think that means she likes them!!