Monthly Archives: April 2012

HSV Garden Challenge Month 2

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Crisc| 5 Comments

 The Preparation Post

With MI weather still being up and down, we haven’t had the chance to build our pen yet. During this time we have started some of the growing process in the house. It started when Heaven brought me a bean from her workbox and told me it was a “magic bean” and wanted it to grow. We read the story and did the project last year so this year I did things a little different .  I got the idea from Pinterest as I always do..

 

Day 2

Day 3

Keeping track of the growth with worksheets from 1+1+1=1 Pinterest

After we had started our bean growing, I figured we might as well get some other projects we found a try.

Milk Jug For Watering Flowers  was also a great Earth Day project

Homemade Weed Killer  and Wasp Killer

After all was made we took them outside and gave them a try. This is a before pic and next month will be an update.

Next I really wanted to try my hands at worm composting, I’m not sure why but I am really interested in it. With that said my overly compulsive self went back to Pinterest and found some cool ideas for Worm Farms and Worm Composting. Since I’m new at this I want to start out small and work my way up. The kids and I gathered our food scraps, special soil from another plant project and went out to find some worms.

We dug around for a bit and couldn’t find any so I am going to go out and buy some. This will also be an update next month.

 

Once it started to get sunny we planted our seed packets of watermelon and cucumbers

Special Soil

The wait process

 

Well next month I will have a ton of things to update on and new projects that we will be starting around Mothers Day, when it warms up.

To learn more about the HSV Garden Challenge check out their site

 

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Body and 5 Senses Unit

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Crisc| 7 Comments

We finished our weekly letter units last month so for the past couple weeks, we have got the chance to do some cool themes. This week we focused on the body and 5 senses. Of course I took to Pinterest for awesome ideas and was happy to find this FREE lesson.

Some of the things inside the unit packet

5 Senses

HER SUPER SENSE WOULD BE TOUCH

We talked about how dogs have good noses and played hide n seek with a treat for Ben-e

She was excited when he found it..

Health

The Body

My Mom just happened to give the kids these cool toys from Burger King and it went perfect!

 

Other things we did

  • Nature walk to listen to sounds and to see what we could find
  • Time4learning.com
  • Talked about eating healthy and why exercise is important

The human body we have is called- Edu Science Human Body Model with Squishy Parts
and can purchased at your local Toys R Us

 

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Space Theme 100th post!!

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Crisc| 5 Comments

Heaven has taken a HUGE interest in all things space. Moons, Planets, Constellations, you name it she loves it. For the past month I have found awesome activities on Pinterest and have been waiting to start this lesson. It started a few months back, JJ and I made a project to help him learn the layers of the Earth..

The 1st thing we did to get the ball rolling on this lesson was, our Time4Learning Lesson on Space. After we took to Pinterest and here are the finished activities =)

Heaven age 3 making her Constellations

Stencil Painting

Learning the planets

For our planet mobile

Look up HIGH in the tree

 Round 2

 

Other things we did…

Alphie

Planet Book

You can find all the links to the projects seen on the site by clicking this link to Pinterest

 

 

 

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Time4Learning Review

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Crisc| 2 Comments

Since Heaven is 3 (soon to be 4) I thought it was the perfect time to teach her how to work the laptop and mouse. I started off with a site I had a random email for and for the most part she liked it. She would play for maybe 6 minutes at the most if “I” asked her if she wanted to play.

I remembered a site I had seen around the web called Time4Learning and decided to go check it out. Heaven was starting to get really good with controlling the mouse, so I was thrilled when I discovered they let Bloggers do REVIEWS for it. That’s AWESOME to me because Heaven is still young so I don’t want to buy something, that will only have her attention for a few minutes or days.

I contacted Time4Learning and in a timely fashion I was emailed back. Heaven and I immediately sat down to try it…..

  • Easy to navigate
  • FUN activities
  • TONS of different lessons to keep the kids thinking
  • Can be used for Homeschool or Summer

 

SHE LOVES IT!!! She can play it by herself for up to a half hour (2 lessons) and even comes and ASK me if she can play it. That is big because my daughter is always go,go,go.

I also used it for my step son who attends a Charter School but due to the amount of HW he gets, we really didn’t get a chance to use it. He did find the game section and played it often after HW =)

 

I KNOW THE ECONOMY IS NOT THE GREATEST and at times homeschooling can be pricey, so I would NEVER recommend something that was not worth it. THIS IS WORTH IT! I have a 3 yr old that can tell you all about CONSTELLATIONS!! We have only been using the program a month and she has picked up so much. AWESOME program and I give HUGE props to the Creators of it.

 

Links to check out..

http://www.Time4Learning.com – Online interactive curriculum for home use, PreK-8th Grade.
http://www.Time4Writing.com – Online writing tutorials for high, middle, and elementary school students.
http://www.Time4Learning.net – A forum to chat with parents online about kids, education, parenting and more…
http://www.Time4Learning.com – Online interactive curriculum for home use, PreK-8th Grade.
http://www.Time4Writing.com – Online writing tutorials for high, middle, and elementary school students.
http://www.Time4Learning.net – A forum to chat with parents online about kids, education, parenting and more…

 

Disclaimer- The opinions here, are mine and only mine. They come from the heart and are 100% honest. For writing the review I was given a 1 month trial to test out.

 

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Easter Fun

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Crisc| 6 Comments

For once I have a holiday post up BEFORE the holiday..(proud moment for me). Anyhow, we had a pretty laxed week b/c Grandma was in town. Our activities were fun, easy and more about play this week. (Not like that isn’t every week ..lol)

 1st thing we did was sign JJ up for his 1st Youth Group at a local Church. He wants to be a part of a community that helps others, so this is great for him. Not to mention he will meet some great friends I’m sure.

Printables from 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations (and if it isn’t them I am SO SORRY..I’m usually so good with this)

Decorating Eggs and Door Hangers(Dollar Tree)

Coloring in our books…

That we got from the EASTER BUNNY

Other activities we did-

Plastic eggs workboxes

Opened Easter Baskets From Grandma

Time4Learning Trial 

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