I cannot imagine not homeschooling. As challenging, time consuming, and frustrating as it gets sometimes, I. LOVE. IT. This comes as no surprise. My original major in college was teaching, I’m actually only a few credits away from my teaching degree. I also spent two years student teaching grades 2-12 which were some of the most fulfilling days of my life. However, teaching my own children has been infinitely more fulfilling. Watching my kids learn, and experience that excitement and joy with them is priceless to me.
This Spring we’ve had an awesome time learning all about Spring time, along with all the other regular subjects, like math, reading, writing, religion, etc. I’ve worked our Spring theme into all our learning which is so much fun. Here is some of what we’ve done:
These terribly technical pictures (NOT) are examples of things I pulled off the internet.
I LOVED this sticky garden activity. Anything to get us outside right away in the morning for school is just wonderful.
Here is our version:
I can’t get enough of C’s amazingly cute observations about the plants he collected.
This was really fun too, both kids got very creative!
I got an amazing Spring unit off of Teachers Pay Teachers. Homeschoolers, I cannot recommend this enough. I do not use a set curriculum because I find that very rarely does it address all our needs in the ways we need it to. This site is an amazing resource for putting together your own curriculum- cheaply!
This Life Cycle of a Bean has been the biggest hit. We’ve had so much fun.
We’ve been waiting weeks for our beans to sprout and they finally did! Each day C would show Husband which part of the cycle the bean was in.
When it finally came time to plant, they were VERY excited.
They did this all on their own and were so very proud :). C knows it his responsibility to take care of the seeds now.
Whenever we start having a hard time focusing during our school we do a physical theme dance like this one:
This life cycle of a butterfly was very cool to put together:
I so wish I could show you and explain everything we’ve been doing but that would just take too long. But, suffice to say, it’s been so fun and exciting! Both kiddos are learning so quickly and we have a great routine down.
I still haven’t totally decided what type of theme to do after the Spring one. Usually, I prefer to have it focus on what we are experiencing currently; a season, a holiday, etc. Last year I had a weekly theme, which was very time consuming, but moved at a quick pace. This year I’m really liking having a theme last a couple months, because we are able to go more in depth and explore more aspects of theme, for example, in Spring theme we’ve been learning about the biology of insects, plant life cycles, pollination, Spring weather, etc.
That’s it for our homeschooling update right now!
Cheers!