How we homeschooled today #3
Greek, wolves, mass extinctions
An experiment in sharing a brief summary of our daily(ish) learning. Please let me know if this is useful and/or interesting in the comments.
Children woke up and translated the latest Greek god/dess into English. (Athena)
Did our homemade Greek flash cards
Seven year old helped five year old with his handwriting
She then continued writing a story she began yesterday
While I prepared lunch they listened to You Are History by Greg Jenner, and delighted in telling me about how people used to wipe their bottoms at different times in history. (It wasn’t all like that, I’m pleased to report.)
After lunch they had a couple of episodes of Puffin Rock
Multiplication by Heart—we are on to the final 3 or 4 very tricky cards of the whole box, which is challenging but also very satisfying.
Seven year old conducted an experiment with sodium acetate from her Curiosity Box subscription (thank you Granny). It was a very cool experiment but she had zero interest in learning about the science behind it.
Following our discussion of bees yesterday, we got out The Natural History Book and identified a wasp by its ‘wasp waist’, and read about some bee species. Did you know there are over 250 species of bee in the UK alone? At teatime we talked about a photograph of a swarm of bees.
Lots of drawing, including some very detailed drawings from The Wizard of Oz. My son carried on with his reading of the book while my daughter went to Beavers (Tiger Cubs if you’re in the US).
While they were drawing I read aloud from Bringing Back the Wolves, a fantastic book about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone.
For bedtime stories, Echo and Narcissus followed by a whistlestop tour of mass extinction events from Bill Bryson’s Really Short History of Nearly Everything. Which is a weird thing to read about before you’re tucked in for the night.
Instead of a daily update the next post will be about gaps in learning and how I handle them as an unschooler.
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I love reading these, thank you! And all your posts in fact. I'm a year behind you with a 6yo and 4yo (and 1yo!) So loads of great ideas. Where do you get your book recommendations from?
Lovely! What a great day they had. Varied and fun and lots learned along the way. Greek first thing in the am sounds a little intimidating but if that’s what they are into then that’s what it needs to be. You must be a bit knackered ! Time to put your feet up!