A week in the life of homeschoolers - August 25th - 31st

August 25th - 31st

In our homeschool this week...

We had a rough start to the week I think we are still trying to find that back to homeschool grove. But on Thursday and Friday things went much better.

Here are some highlights:

Saturday and Sunday we just enjoyed some time at home. Monday we were supposed to have our 1st homeschool book club meeting but everyone except 1 family cancelled at the last minute so plans changed. Instead we met the other family at a local park and played on the playground, ate lunch and took a nature walk. And we brought some visitors home with us too, read here. Tuesday we had a fun morning making puppets to use with our Speekee Spanish class. And we played our new math board game. Then we headed to speech therapy. Rowyns speech teacher said his evaluation went very well and he is doing so much better. Wednesday we had a fun filled day. We read lots of books, made some fun sand art crafts, made a sand timer (using two bottles) played one of our fabulous playPlay games and had fun playing I Spy with books and our sand unit study box treasure. Thursday we did homeschool at the grocery store. Gwyn learned how to weigh bananas and both kids learned how to compare prices. When we got home Rowyn helped put away the groceries and of course he did it the boy way and made a tower out of the cans before putting them in the pantry. Later in the afternoon we attended two story times one at the library and one at Barnes and Nobles. At Barnes and Nobles we got to met the fabulous author Kevin Henkes. Friday we finished up our sand unit study and had a great day. We finished up worksheets, science experiments and a bible lesson. We also built the Great Sphinx and Pyramid using Legos. And we watched some YouTube videos and played our Dr. Seuss game.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…
Let your kids make their own lunches from time to time. Gwyn picked her lunch items out one day this week and picked some very healthy items she also made a silly face out of her food selections (see picture below).

I am inspired by…
My kids love for learning about nature.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
Monday we had a great time on our nature walk (which replaced book club due to everyone cancelling at the last minute). Thursday we went to the library for story time. The Roswell Historic Society read a cute little book called Rucker the Lost Country Dog. Then we headed to Barnes and Nobles to attend the Kevin Henkes book reading and signing. He read his newest book Penny and Her Doll, drew some of his characters for the kids, answered questions and signed our book. It was a great experience for the kids to meet a "real live" author.

Next week we are gong to the Decatur Book Festival, having friends over for Labor Day, possibly going to the Booth Western Art Museum, hitting up a great used library book sale, taking a nature hike,  and then on Saturday I am having my much needed moms night out.

My favorite thing this week was…
Our wonderful nature walk with friends.

What’s working/not working for us…
I tried something new on Friday with Gwyn in hopes to help her with her OCD Type A needs (she totally takes after her momma). I still don't want to go back to having strict structured days but Gwyn NEEDS to know what our plans are for the day so I wrote down everything I had hoped to accomplish that day on the giant wipe off board. As we completed them I let her and Rowyn check the items off the list. Gwyn especially liked this and I think we will continue to do this each day.

Questions/thoughts I have…
Why can't my children sit still? Anyone have any tips or tricks. I don't mind it so much at home but I do when we are at a library event or field trip.

Things I’m working on…
Organizing and cleaning. I reorganized the schoolroom a little bit. I added another bookcase and go rid of my recycled cd tower. I have been trying to make things easier for the kids to access and clean up.

I’m grateful for…
Great friends who call to chat on the phone and help me feel much better.

Favorite Resource(s)...
Recyclables...we love to make crafts using recyclables. We also enjoyed using this worksheet How to build a sand castle. The kids verbally gave me the steps and I wrote them down.

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

How was your week? 

Linking up with:

Learning All The Time, Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers,  Homegrown Learners, iHomeschool Network, Living Life Intentionally, All Boy Homeschool, A Little R & R, Becoming a Strong Woman of God, Adventurez In Child Rearing,