How we homeschooled today #13
Baking, law-making, illicit bedtime reading
Translated three Greek words from the blackboard
I read aloud from our DK Find Out Vikings book
Each child baked cakes to take to their Scout group coronation party later—measuring, reading the recipe etc, and my daughter wrote out the ingredients label for allergens
We played Rainbow Logic from Family Math, a fun game to develop deductive skills and spatial reasoning
More catalogue-cutting, practising scissor skills
Listened to more Greeking Out while drawing pictures
My daughter did some very brief handwriting practice (but anything is a win!)
While her brother was in his Squirrels group, my daughter told me we should have no government and only one law (no stealing). So we discussed whether we should have laws about whether you can build what you like on land that you own, whether children should be allowed to work for money, whether you should be allowed to pay two people differently for doing the same job, whether you should be allowed to sell sausages that are secretly made of dog food, etc.
And then when his sister was in her Beaver group (Tiger Cubs), I read my son the whole of the Odyssey from our Greek Myths for Young Children book, then told him if he wanted any more myths he could read them himself, which he did.
Back at home we did a quick pop-quiz using our Multiplication by Heart cards.
Bedtime stories: More Vikings, and the geometry page from See Inside Maths (which coincidentally tied-in with my daughter’s work drawing cubes that look 3D earlier today)
No time for official reading in bed but my daughter managed to sneak in a few pages of Ramona the Brave!
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