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Friday, April 16, 2010
Friday, June 5, 2009
Summer Break
Wow! Summer Break already?! At first, I thought it would never get here, and now it has arrived, and I can't believe we are done with the school year already! Just call me crazy! We've got big plans for this summer... we've already been to Aquatica twice... and the guys are planning a backpacking trip in the Smoky Mountains, as well..
But, we aren't completely giving up on school... DS#2 is working on getting those multiplication facts down flat, and DS#1 is finishing up the MUS we switched to in March... on top of that, he asked that we do Apologia's Zoology 3 this summer, and DD has jumped in on that, so we are going through that as well. And I am working, part time, still... so our afternoons are booked for most days... but we will still have plenty of time for lounging around the pool, playing video games (of course!), and there is always Aquatica... maybe a trip to the beach, as well...
In any case, I placed my order for next year yesterday... I am excited... every time a box arrives, the kids ask what it is, and I tell them SCHOOL BOOKS! It's like Christmas for me, LOL!! You can see what we're doing next year to the right of my blog...
Well, I need to round the kids up for lunch and a Zoology lesson... so I better get off the computer ☺.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
New Apologia Notebooks!
Apologia is now producing notebooking journals that accompany each of the elementary science books. Both Botany and Astronomy are now available.
These journals are beautiful spiral bound notebooks that will save you time and money. You won't have to print and keep up with your child's notebook pages, buy and maintain page protectors, or purchase and compile binders...everything that makes notebooking time-consuming and labor intensive for mom. Also, your child will adore having their own notebooking journal.
Each of the notebooking journals include:
•A daily schedule for those who like to have a plan or would like their children to complete the book on their own
•Templates for written narrations, the notebooking activities and experiments
•Review Questions
•Scripture Copywork, with both print and cursive practice
•Reading lists and additional activities, projects, experiments for each lesson
•An appendix with beautiful, full-color, lapbook-style Miniature Books
•Field Trip Sheets to keep a record field trips
•A Final Review with fifty questions the students can answer either orally or in writing to show off all they remember and know at the end of the course.
See the sample pages here:
Botany
and
Astronomy
Jeannie is giving away four Astronomy Notebooking Journals and four Botany Notebooking Journals to bloggers who post about this on their site. Visit her blog to learn more about this contest: www.jeanniesjournal.com
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Symbolic Butterfly Migration UPDATE
As you will recall, last Fall, we sent our butterfly creations off to Canada to then migrate to Mexico, where they were to be cared for by some school children there... well, according to Journey North's Field Data, they have arrived in Angangueo, Michoacan (map). Looking at the pictures on Journey North's website, we were able to identify DD's purple butterfly in the lower picture, but have not yet found either of the boys' butterflies. This could be due to the fact that some of the butterflies are being held in such a way that we cannot see them very clearly, but since I found DD's butterfly, I am confident that they all made it there :-) I am so excited- and I have not even told the kids yet, LOL!!
