P.E. With the Homeschool Group

I feel so blessed to be involved with a group of home school moms. We have a mom that has volunteered to do a group P.E. class once each week. Both Kit and Mr. Wheels can participate. As you can see there are kids of all ages. This is an example of one of the reasons we home school. We believe that kids should be involved with people of all ages not just their own age group. This is how it will be when they grow up. People interact and work with people of all ages.

Geography Vocab On The Floor

We do so much of our home school on the floor in the living room. This shows Kit using the computer to make her most resent 2 geography video vocabulary productions. This time we made a slide in PowerPoint with transitions and she narrated her content. I love that she is learning how to use the computer and the geography vocabulary at the same time. She gets a bit frustrated because she wants it to be perfect, but she enjoys not having to write out the definitions.

Tweezers

When I got the package of large kids tweezers in the mail and my husband asked what are these for. I told him they were for Mr. Wheels to learn to grip and squeeze. When I brought them out and he used them. I took a video so I could text it to my husband to show him what use them for. Here is the production. Here is the full size video

Spanish Fun

You saw previously that I have cards with the English days and Spanish days we were matching during our music time. Today Kit and I sat on the floor and tried to touch the words as we listened to the song. Kit decided to add another dimension to it, she added her feet. She said it was like twister.

Fun In The Rain

When it rains Mr. Wheels wants to go outside and stand under the rain spout near our back door. On day it was so cute that I had to video it and take pictures. I decided to make a movie out of it. Here it is. Here the full size video

Horses Day 3

Kit had her third day of lessons. She did very well. The day before she received a new pair of breaches in the mail from her grandmother. She was very excited. When she put them on she thought they were comfortable, but she was not used to the seam in the seat. Her instructor has been helping her with trotting and getting comfortable in the saddle. In this lesson she introduced the idea of cantering.  Kit didn't know what the horse would look like in a canter. Instead of having Kit canter she lunged the horse to a canter. I like that the instructor is watching to see that she is gripping with her legs enough to go to the next step and that she introduced the idea to Kit before so the idea will sink in.

Art

Today we had art. Mr. Wheels painted and Kit made a maple leaf stamp from clay. We were to make a ball of clay, flatten it out, then then press leaf to it. Next Kit used a toothpick to make the indentations more pronounced. She then put the clay into some paint and stamped it to paper. At first we were not very successful that is because we started with play-doe instead of clay. After we used clay it worked a lot better. I was really proud of how Kit handled the failure she actually became a scientist about it. She did experiments to see you how to make the best print. She counted sometimes to see if leaving it longer or shorter would make a better print. She also painted on the paint instead of stamping it into the paint to see if that would make a better print. In the end she was able to have two good prints. Mr. Wheels loves to paint . He gets his apron on and he uses his paint brush to smear paint all over the paper. He has his own easel, he looks so cute. Since Kit was making stamps I let Mr. Wheels use stamps too. We had jungle stamps, I would hold it, he painted on the paint, and then I let him stamp it on the paper. Most of the time it was just a big smear on the paper when he was finished. He didn't care he was doing the same thing as his sister and he loved it.

Mr. Wheels Painting

Kit above with her clay down for the print. Below are 2 prints. The left is one of her first, the right is one of the last.