Go Fish!

Today in our homeschool elementary we have enjoyed one of our favorite games.

 This seems to be a popular game in our house right now.

I love that my two youngest like to play together. It make my heart over flow when I see all of my kids playing a game like this together!

Lil Momma Strouse

Elementary Science Series: Week 4

As I have said over the past few weeks hands on activities are great for my children to learn about science or anything. We have been enjoying a youtube channel called Art for Kids.  

Not only have the kids learned some hand eye coordination and art skills they have also learned about different features in animals. This would go great with second grade science worksheets. Some examples of this are…

This is an owl that Honey drew.  She learned about eyes and feathers while drawing this owl. It also lead to more conversations and research on all kinds of owls.

This is a Raccoon that Honey drew. This lead to conversation and research on why raccoons have the mask look on their face along with raccoons being scavenger animals. 

Lastly, Moose got in on this art/science fun but he fell in love with drawing a dragon. In the video the man states draw lines on the belly like other lizards.  That lead us to look up all kinds of lizards and see how those lines are actually scales on their belly. 

Art is a great way to incorporate other subjects like science. What subjects do use art with? 

Lil Momma Strouse

Elementary Science Series: Week 3

This weekend I went to a Ministry & Technology Expo.  

This was an expo held to help people, like pastors, church technical staff and volunteers learn about the latest in worship AV and get to see what is out there available to help optimize the worship experience. It was offered at my favorite price, FREE!

As I sit in the first seminar, I am thinking of my kids.  I know strange right. The speaker kept saying listen for the frequency. As a homeschool mom all I could think of was how could I teach my kids frequency. Is there away to incorporate things this speaker was telling us about sounds in our daily lives and music. I can incorporate this into our science for elementary school and high school. It is all physical sciences; sound, light, electrical energy and electrical transfer. I can't wait to share what I have heard and learned with my kids. 

Love being able to turn everyday life into school.  Well, this is everyday life for this homeschool mom who is a volunteer AV tech.

Lil Momma Strouse

Elementary Science Series -- Week 2

Most of you know we have chickens. This has been a great learning science lesson for us.  It has fit right in with 1st grade science curriculum and life science.  This past week we got to experience some strange egg production. When I went to collect eggs I found this warm strange shaped egg.  

This egg also had some strange lines on it. 

We did a web search looking for the why this might have happened. (It has only happened once) This is what we found.

FLAT-SIDED: Can occur in new layers due to stress or disease. The egg is kept too long in the shell gland, resulting in a flat side with wrinkles. Can also occur when a mis-timed, second egg proceeds down the oviduct, bumping into and resting alongside the first egg.

Grit.com

This is a great website full of information all about the different things that can happen to eggs as they are laid. My kids really enjoyed reviewing it with me. 

Lil Momma Strouse

Checking out Science4Us.com

Last week I mentioned I was looking for an elementary science curriculum and Kat recommended Science4Us.com.  Even though Kat recommended it I have been looking at that. I keep going back to it. Since my kids like to work on the computer so much, I figured it might be a good match for us.

We could use the kindergarden science curriculum up to second grade.  The website states:

"The Science4Us curriculum is a complete, standards-based, core science curriculum that delivers digital science experiences to early elementary students."

There is different parts of this curriculum that grab my attention. Some of those highlights are...

• 5E Instructional Models 

1. Engage 
2. Explore
3. Explain
4. Elaborate
5. Evaluate

• Integrates Literacy and Math
• Teacher Resources 
• Lesson Plans
• Reports

The 4 areas of study are...

1. Inquiry
2. Physical
3. Life
4. Earth/Space

All of that in one program all about Science. How cool is that?

If we do choose to go with this program I will give you a review on how my kids like it. 

Lil Momma Strouse

Fun we have been having.

We got the program All About Reading Pre-Level. The kids "LOVE" it.  I do believe we will be adding most of the All About Learning curriculum to our elementary homeschool.

(painting with pencil erasers to make blueberry patch)

Of course that is along with Time4learning.com will be used in our homeschool. We have really enjoyed using the Reading Pre-level.  Moose and Honey are always asking for me "Can we do school work?" As if that was the only school we ever did was the reading program.  I would like to add some kind of elementary science to next year. Still looking around to see what will work best for my two youngest.



Lil Momma Strouse