Wilderness Wednesday

Another bike ride/nature study with Grandma....

An unidentified weasel type animal

Yellow/Canary Finch

Posing Chipmunk lol

A double date while about 15 goslings got babysat by another group of geese

We've gotten loads of growth in our garden, so that'll probably be the focus of next week's Wilderness Wednesday!

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Homeschooling Flexibility

Today it was 34C (93F) with the humidex. Tomorrow and Thurs are supposed to hit 45C (113F). Needless to say, Brianna is living in our kiddie pool from about 9am til supper time. And right about now, I'm wishing it was bigger than about 3ft across so I could live in it with her!

On to homeschooling flexibility.... because of the heat, there's no way I can expect Brianna's brain to work when it's hot enough to fry an egg on the walkway (which Brianna is desperate to try!). So today we did school at 8pm while waiting for Olivia to go to sleep.

School still gets done, but at a time it'll actually get *done*

Tot School - Week 4

Our Focus:

Review Week

- Letter A, B, C

- Number 1, 2, 3

- Color Red, Blue, Green

- Circle, Square, Triangle Shapes

Olivia is 22 mths 

 Our version of spooning lol She decided herself that she needed to scoop gravel into this bowl

She loves these sticker pages. Sometimes she really concentrates on trying to get the stickers in the circles, other times she just wants to sticker all over the page!

I think the A pages are her favorites cause they have apples on most of them and she's madly in love with apples.

This was more meant for a tracing/coloring page, but she had fun stickering the apples

LOL! "Eating" the cake on a C page

We found these great alphabet cookies and she has me name all the letters to her before she eats them. And she's been able to pick out A and B for me. She almost got M too, but she insisted the N was and M.

These are patterning cards that came with out bug set. She's doing pretty well at the simple ones, but usually after she puts a couple down in their places she starts just putting whatever colored bug where ever. And the orange and red bugs in this set are pretty close so I was pretty surprised when she picked out both orange bugs for this pattern

We introduced her to the Nemo color cards here. She picked out Pink, Purple and Yellow for me before she gathered them up and said bye-bye

She's still not too sure about these Thomas shape cards. She does love the Thomas trains on them though!

 Like the A for Apple, she loves the C pages cause most have cats on them

 This was a new amazing (to us at least) trick of hers. I bought some colored button magnets for her, however, they're small enough to slide under the fridge. So she grabbed the fly swatter and tried to fish them out! I know she's seen us grab things to get toys out from under the couch and such, but I was pretty surprised to see her think to grab a small thing to get under the fridge.

 More sticker pages

Concentrating closely on her C

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Daycare Resource 
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Weekly Wrap-Up

This was our third week on the new schedule. I'm quite impressed so far. Brianna has set herself into doing lots of work Mon-Wed and having light/off days on Thurs-Fri. As long as she gets the work for the week done I'm happy and she feels like she's sneaking time off. Win-win in my opinion!


Monday - Brianna finished her Gr. 2 math workbook. She has some final worksheets to do and the final review and we'll be able to move into Gr. 3! She's very excited.

We also implemented an idea given to us from Jessy over at Our Side of the Mountain. Brianna hates worksheets full of nothing but problems, but I think repetition for basic math (adding/subtracting/ect...) is important. Jessy said what she does with her daughter is have her do just the even problems and if she gets 85% or more she doesn't have to do the odds. Brianna likes this idea. She did get less than the 85% the first time cause she did her usual rush through. However, when she had to then complete the odd problems *because* she rushed through the evens, she got slowed down and took her time and got every single problem correct! Thanks Jessy!

Tuesday - We started another new book that I picked up for over the summer work. It's a basic writing skills book to help her with writing things like letters, paragraphs, short stories, ect...

Wednesday - We're moving right along in her French book. She's still finding it quite easy. I think part of it is that it's a bilingual book. The questions are written in both French and English. As long as she answers them in French all is good. I think this is a bit of a "good easy" though to build back up her confidence in French. It was starting to be lacking by the end of our last all French book. Where as now she's laughing saying "I know this!"

Thursday - We discovered that there appears to be more to the Canadian Census unit than we thought. Apparently the work that you order through the mail is different from the pdf version available on the gov website. So now I'm kinda glad I've been lacking on posting about her "complete" Census unit. I asked her if she wanted to do more Census work and you shoulda seen her jumping around lol This was a very good unit to have done as she's enjoyed it a LOT.

Otherwise, she had an off day as there was only a couple things left from her schedule and she wanted to do them Friday.

Friday - We did Rule #2 from Spell by Color. She again was trying to skip over reading instructions and just do what she thought she should do (a big problem here), but once I made her go over it again, she found all the words that went with the rules. Again, I'm really glad we started this over again!

She's really enjoying making things with this clay (which make mommy much happier than playdoh)

An interesting dude made of Q-tips

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Supply Score!

I went to Walmart this afternoon to pick up coffee creamer. I wandered past the stationary dept to see if they still had any of the colored dots Olivia loves on Clearance. Did they ever! I originally bought them marked down to $1. Now they were marked down to $0.50! I also found a whole bunch of other great supplies! 2 packs of tape for $0.10. Binder dividers for $0.18. Zipper binders for $2. Fancy double sided markers for $1. Mechanical pencils for $1. Dry erase posters for $1. Push pins for $0.50. Crazy mark downs on loads of stuff! I picked up close to $300 worth of supplies for under $30! I'm going back next week to see if there's new stuff

Wilderness Wednesday

Sorry for the late in the day post!

We didn't get outside much this week other than to jump in the kiddie pool cause it was so hot and humid. Over the weekend we saw a female ruby-throated humming bird in our garden. It actually stuck around for several minutes twittering around our bleeding heart, but I was to afraid of scaring it away to go grab the camera.

We did get some pics though!

This is a HUGE (over 2 inches) bug. Apparently it's a Giant Water Bug. I didn't think we grew bugs this big in Canada!

In the center of the pic is a little frog, but of course it hopped away too quickly for us to figure out what kind.

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Tot School - Week 3

I'm late posting this one, but we're here!!

Our Focus:

- Letter C

- Number 3

- Color Green

- Triangle Shape

Olivia is 22 mths

Triangles. She's making more of a star shape though lol

Coloring Cake

She loved the Thomas pictures on these shape cards, but it seemed to be too much with the pictures on the shapes. I think I'll find some plain shape cards for her too.

She loves her sticker pages. She's been trying to color match the stickers too (not even something I've been trying to work on!)

More triangles. I'm still amazed how close too correct she holds her crayons!

Color matching bugs

She was actually trying to follow the outline of the C for a minute.

I got my printables from:
1+1+1=1
Confessions of a Homeschooler
Printer Projects
Daycare Resource 
Homemade

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