How we homeschooled today #31
Lots and lots of playing. And some war.
The children have been busy playing a very absorbing imaginary game for most of the day. Here’s what we squeezed into the gaps in between:
My husband told them about the discovery of phosphorus on Saturn’s moon Enceladus—the final essential element scientists had been looking for out there. I wrote the six elements essential for life on the blackboard with their atomic symbols, which we noticed spells NCHOPS, which may (or may not) help us to remember them.
Vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus, via National Geographic More work in the Jolly Phonics handwriting books, followed by the Usborne Adding and Subtracting activity books.
I read aloud another chapter of Penelope Lively’s version of The Aeneid (my daughter is keen, my son is finding it a bit heavy-going).
At lunch they asked to look at a Lift the Flap Times Tables book I had left out for them last night, which we used to do multiplication with word problems. A nice way to build on the basic multiplication facts we have been learning with Multiplication by Heart (which we also did today).
I completely forgot to do quiet time after TV.
I went to the dentist (me time!). I don’t really know what everyone got up to at home but from what’s all over the floor it seems to have involved our World War 2 cards.
At tea I read some more of Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat. (I don’t really understand why this is considered such a classic, but the children are enjoying it.)
Bedtime stories: More Gobbolino, 50 Things You Should Know About the Second World War, and The First World War. I have no idea why you would want to read about this just before you go to sleep, but it doesn’t seem to bother the children. In fact as I send this they have both decided to start taking notes from their respective war books to help them learn. Whatever happened to tucking them in with a good fairy story, eh?
