Our Peculiar Homeschool

Kaedra has been doing more and more school with us lately. However, she is VERY disruptive! As I am doing school with Emily, I turn to Kaedra and give her instructions as to what she is supposed to be doing. Before I even get started with Em again, Kaedra is already done and yelling for me to help her again. She is not patient and definitely doesn't use an inside voice.

Apparently, four year olds really like rules. I read this somewhere and I have noticed it to be true. If you give Kaedra rules, she really tries to stick with them. Today I decided to make some rules for school.






I'll let you know how it goes! LOL

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 10:19 AM | 0 comments  
Labels: How we do it

Well, I am trying to spend today getting back in the swing of things. Trying to plan out our next few months in general, the next month in particular. I am really having trouble getting my brain to work in the right way. For some reason, it is almost actually hurting trying to think of this stuff. I must be severely out of practice! I can usually whip up a month of school plans in no time. It is usually something I enjoy, which is why I don't usually buy prepackaged curriculum. However, this time I am having some problems getting going.

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 11:40 AM | 1 comments  

We wove some Thanksgiving placemats for our Dinner decorations. Brittany had decorated the house while Kaedra was in the hospital. She had put up loops of Thanksgiving colors in a chain. It was very pretty. She has bunch of paper leftover that she had already cut into pieces, so we used that for our placemats. It might just have been the easiest craft ever!

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 4:19 PM | 0 comments  
Labels: How we do it, Show and Tell

Ethan has one too, but tore it off and refused to wear it. Oh well. :-(

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 5:11 PM | 1 comments  
Labels: How we do it, Show and Tell

Check out this little girl, Lilly, who knows more places on the map than my whole family combined. She was 23 months old when this was made!



Guess who's putting a map up at a lower level, very soon???

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 8:00 PM | 0 comments  

Just found a great online test maker. I used it to make Brittany's vocabulary test. I have to tell ya, I haven't been big on giving Brittany tests up until this year (except for spelling tests). I didn't really see the point; I knew exactly how well she was doing. I have given her a few open-book in the past, but no other kinds. This year, I realized I needed to get her ready for high school. She took a short answer test about a month ago and did great - a 96%. Tomorrow she has a vocabulary test. I was just about to get started making it on MS Word when I decided to search online. The first site I found, Easy Test Maker, is great! I just made her a 50 question test. 25 Multiple choice, 23 matching and 2 short answer. It was quick, it was easy and it saves it for me! (did I mention it was free???) I highly recommend it!

I'm not sure how well Brittany will like it...I'll let ya know. ;-)

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 3:49 PM | 0 comments  
Labels: How we do it, review

We got our election lapbooks from this wonderful site. I am so grateful to her for making this wonderful lapbook! It was a breeze to use, it looks great and I didn't have to think! WOOHOO!!!

They both have this as the cover (but we put it on the back)


Here are pics from Emily's book:



(we folded up her electoral map and put it under the map index card)

Here is Brittany's:




as you can see, Brittany has a lot more in her book. The blue vocabulary book at the top middle is taped in so it made it's own page, you can move it back and forth. She also has her map in the index card pocket and has a venn diagram (comparing and contrasting McCain and Obama) behind her candidates.

Posted by Peculiar Blogs at 11:29 AM | 2 comments  
Labels: How we do it, Show and Tell