Karisma's Kraft update Click Here
Peace out! Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxox
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
L is also for Lazy......
And it my utter laziness at writing two posts today, I combined the homeschool and craft one and posted over at Karismas Kraft! Go check it out if you want to.
Karisma's Kraft update Click Here
Peace out! Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxox
Karisma's Kraft update Click Here
Peace out! Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxox
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
L is for
Love
Looking up......
Looking out.....
Looking down.....
Lemon Balm.....
Leafy goodness.......all round......
LIFE is good!
Live, Love, Laugh and be Happy!
Hugs and smoochies xox
Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday morning coffee and chat...
Hello my lovelies!
How was your weekend? I was just sitting here thinking on planning my day when I thought "why bother?" Maybe I will just sip my coffee, listen to the birds and be grateful for another beautiful sunny day before the cold and rain that is expected hits us once more!
I thought I might drop by and let you know how the "plan" went last week! LMAO yes that's about how it went! We got in TWO days of the plan and then well, things changed. First the kids had a friend over for two nights so it was a little hard to follow our plan, so we just let it be and they did their thing, and I did mine. Which I have to say was rather nice. I went out all day one day and just took pictures and caught up with my friends from the Bali trip. And I caught up on my crochet project that I am working on too! I also managed to get my vegie patch all planted and ready to go! Yay!
Next up we got a message that my niece and her mama were going to stop by on Thursday afternoon so of course we once again canned any idea of following the plan because, well, we had some serious playing and visiting to do. We had not seen them for over a year!
Then on Friday, Ashlee came to visit with her gorgeous new puppy Charlotte and we played puppies and then went to the beach where we caught up with all our long lost friends at once! (well, thats how it felt seeing as we had not gotten together in Oh so long! It was most loverly! Yes it was. And we even got to meet a beautiful new little boy! He was simply adorable! Wish I had taken my camera!
I have to mention though, that even though the plan was thwarted and set aside, learning happened in its usual manner.
They did......
....read a good six chapters of their book "Igraine the Brave".
....read all about how knights became knights!And took a quiz to see what they could remember!
....cover some maths and graph drawing. Use our math skills in many real life situations!
....watch a few edumucational type shows on tv. Myth busters is a bit of a favourite at the moment.
....pull out the marine books again.
....play loads of adventure games and minecraft.
....learn about puppies and even baby sit for one boy who is not much of an animal person.
....discovered a snake in the bush, and disappeared in said bush for a very long time with a tribe of like minded folk with not a care in the world for the worries of grown ups left behind!
.....swam, swam and swam some more in the ocean, which is delightfully cold right now but glorious all the same!
....learned just how sneaky that ocean can be when sitting on rocks with the tide coming in..ouch! Z has some pretty juicy cuts at the moment after saving himself from being swept all the way in.
....re-discovered the fun of Nippers training and even stayed back an extra hour to practice on the nippers boards.
....begin the planning stages of a deck at C's house where Z and C previously built a bridge and took a liking to woodwork.
....went to our first metal work class.
....joined up for the rookie program at nippers even though we will be a little young to take the test. Will still be doing patrols and learning the ins and outs though! Yay for surf clubs that encourage this in kids!
.....and we probably, well, most certainly did learn loads of other things while we were unhindered by the thoughts of what grown ups thought we needed to learn.....sometimes mum just needs to step aside and let it happen you know?
Yes I do know and sometimes it just takes life stepping in to remind me! Sigh! Now my lovelies, my coffee is all gone and I am going to get dressed, clean the fridge, finish the laundry and then have one more go at setting that plan into motion! Hahahahaha! Well, you have to give me an A for effort now! I will educate these fine young gentlemen! Yes I will! Of course with a little help from life itself!
Have a beautiful day everyone! Hope your plans are kind to you!
Hugs and smoochies xoxoxox
How was your weekend? I was just sitting here thinking on planning my day when I thought "why bother?" Maybe I will just sip my coffee, listen to the birds and be grateful for another beautiful sunny day before the cold and rain that is expected hits us once more!
I thought I might drop by and let you know how the "plan" went last week! LMAO yes that's about how it went! We got in TWO days of the plan and then well, things changed. First the kids had a friend over for two nights so it was a little hard to follow our plan, so we just let it be and they did their thing, and I did mine. Which I have to say was rather nice. I went out all day one day and just took pictures and caught up with my friends from the Bali trip. And I caught up on my crochet project that I am working on too! I also managed to get my vegie patch all planted and ready to go! Yay!
Next up we got a message that my niece and her mama were going to stop by on Thursday afternoon so of course we once again canned any idea of following the plan because, well, we had some serious playing and visiting to do. We had not seen them for over a year!
Then on Friday, Ashlee came to visit with her gorgeous new puppy Charlotte and we played puppies and then went to the beach where we caught up with all our long lost friends at once! (well, thats how it felt seeing as we had not gotten together in Oh so long! It was most loverly! Yes it was. And we even got to meet a beautiful new little boy! He was simply adorable! Wish I had taken my camera!
I have to mention though, that even though the plan was thwarted and set aside, learning happened in its usual manner.
They did......
....read a good six chapters of their book "Igraine the Brave".
....read all about how knights became knights!And took a quiz to see what they could remember!
....cover some maths and graph drawing. Use our math skills in many real life situations!
....watch a few edumucational type shows on tv. Myth busters is a bit of a favourite at the moment.
....pull out the marine books again.
....play loads of adventure games and minecraft.
....learn about puppies and even baby sit for one boy who is not much of an animal person.
....discovered a snake in the bush, and disappeared in said bush for a very long time with a tribe of like minded folk with not a care in the world for the worries of grown ups left behind!
.....swam, swam and swam some more in the ocean, which is delightfully cold right now but glorious all the same!
....learned just how sneaky that ocean can be when sitting on rocks with the tide coming in..ouch! Z has some pretty juicy cuts at the moment after saving himself from being swept all the way in.
....re-discovered the fun of Nippers training and even stayed back an extra hour to practice on the nippers boards.
....begin the planning stages of a deck at C's house where Z and C previously built a bridge and took a liking to woodwork.
....went to our first metal work class.
....joined up for the rookie program at nippers even though we will be a little young to take the test. Will still be doing patrols and learning the ins and outs though! Yay for surf clubs that encourage this in kids!
.....and we probably, well, most certainly did learn loads of other things while we were unhindered by the thoughts of what grown ups thought we needed to learn.....sometimes mum just needs to step aside and let it happen you know?
Yes I do know and sometimes it just takes life stepping in to remind me! Sigh! Now my lovelies, my coffee is all gone and I am going to get dressed, clean the fridge, finish the laundry and then have one more go at setting that plan into motion! Hahahahaha! Well, you have to give me an A for effort now! I will educate these fine young gentlemen! Yes I will! Of course with a little help from life itself!
Have a beautiful day everyone! Hope your plans are kind to you!
Hugs and smoochies xoxoxox
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Views from my tree.....
Hugs and smoochies my lovely friends!
Have a glorious, wonderful day!
Love and Light xoxoxoxoxox
Monday, October 17, 2011
Term 4 - we have a plan!
Hahahahaha! Well we do okay? And the aim is to follow it through, provided nothing drastic happens to change it! I say that because so far I am having trouble getting a hold of one particular book that we need! I will get it though, I will I tell you! And there is also the fact that everytime I seem to make plans something or other happens to thwart them!
MATHS: A will be finishing up his self teaching, maths online adventure this term. Why? Well, I am finding it hard to believe he is actually learning enough from it doing only one work sheet per lesson and B, his programming adventures have far outweighed and surpassed the maths level he is working on, so we will let him continue with that till the year ends and next year he will start on something different.
Z will attempt to chug his way through his last book of Targeting math for year 6 and he also will start a new programme next year.
COMPUTER: Adem will continue with his HTML 5 programming. He has almost finished his huge text book and I am sure his dad will extend him once he has.
Zak is going to also begin some programming once his dad sets it up for him. Excuse my ignorance but I cannot remember whether he was going to use Star Logo or something else. Will let you know once I see it myself.
They both spend a lot of time online gaming. While they do learn quite a lot from this, I am trying to get them to tone it down a bit this term and spend more time outdoors for health and socialization's sake. Zak is pretty involved in Minecraft and Adem plays HON and other such games a lot. Of course the whole time they do this, they are on Skype so not entirely alone, but still I think there needs to be a line drawn somewhere, so we are working on this.
There is the possibility of a joint blog coming to life. I won't tell you more until it is decided for sure.
ENGLISH/HISTORY/HSIE:
After our enormous success with learning history with Jacki French last term and the ease with which it flowed into our lives, we are once again planning to use this little gem and this time read "How the Finnegans saved the Ship" (once we can get a hold of the book that is!).
This time our journey into history will cover a bit about immigration to Australia, Ireland, Ships in general, the Titanic voyage, settlement in Australia, what it would have been like for the children, , maps, geography, our ancestors (how did they get here?), oh the list again will be endless once they get those thinking caps on and of course the lessons and learning will vary as I catch onto their interests and follow them through (come on, you didn't think I was actually going to force the learning on them did you? All I have to do is read and ask a few questions and hopefully, once again they will be off on adventures of wonderful learning opportunities!) Oh and there will be at least one excursion thrown in to Sydney to look at ships and visit the Immigration museum.
Of course in my usual fashion there will be loads of Vocabulary, grammar, writing, computer, creative art and what ever else I can sneak in without them noticing. Amazing how easy this can be if their interest is tweaked! (Insert cheeky witches cackle!) We have a couple of friends joining us on this adventure as well so hopefully we will all learn to work in a group and bounce ideas off each other.
As part of the journey touches on the Titanic Voyage, we will also be reading My Story, TITANIC and watching the movie at some stage, just to give them a view of the whole sinking ship scenario. We may even get a bit scientific and delve into icebergs and how they are formed etc. Shhhhhh we won't tell them because naturally they are going to think of it themselves!
Until we start this, A and Z will also be reading "Igraine the Brave" by Cordelia Funke. We will delve into the realm of magic and knights and castles and such. Not getting too heavy as once we start the other lessons we won't have as much time, but hopefully we will still manage to get a bit of history, geography and English thrown in. :-) Yeah, I don't think that teacher in me is ever going to lie down and be still entirely!
SCIENCE: I am not planning anything shhhhh I can sense some experiments coming on, this will be entirely in their hands this term.
Metal work: The boys are taking a metal work class once a week at a highschool with other homeschoolers.
Sport: Swimming and Nippers for Zak. Body boarding and swimming for Adem. Also we are encouraging a bit of walking and jogging as we need to lose a bit of weight.
Of course in the usual fashion there is bound to be more learning than the plan, I don't like to over plan for this very reason. When things come up, we must follow along as the learning happens best this way.
Now I must be away! We have some reading and math to do and then a trip to the pools for a swim. Hopefully at some stage I will also have time for my "one a day project" and some gardening, if the weather clears up of course. Oh and I suppose I should dash out and get some food too, we seem to be a bit short. Have a lovely week all! Its NOT back to school day for us!
Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxo
MATHS: A will be finishing up his self teaching, maths online adventure this term. Why? Well, I am finding it hard to believe he is actually learning enough from it doing only one work sheet per lesson and B, his programming adventures have far outweighed and surpassed the maths level he is working on, so we will let him continue with that till the year ends and next year he will start on something different.
Z will attempt to chug his way through his last book of Targeting math for year 6 and he also will start a new programme next year.
COMPUTER: Adem will continue with his HTML 5 programming. He has almost finished his huge text book and I am sure his dad will extend him once he has.
Zak is going to also begin some programming once his dad sets it up for him. Excuse my ignorance but I cannot remember whether he was going to use Star Logo or something else. Will let you know once I see it myself.
They both spend a lot of time online gaming. While they do learn quite a lot from this, I am trying to get them to tone it down a bit this term and spend more time outdoors for health and socialization's sake. Zak is pretty involved in Minecraft and Adem plays HON and other such games a lot. Of course the whole time they do this, they are on Skype so not entirely alone, but still I think there needs to be a line drawn somewhere, so we are working on this.
There is the possibility of a joint blog coming to life. I won't tell you more until it is decided for sure.
ENGLISH/HISTORY/HSIE:
After our enormous success with learning history with Jacki French last term and the ease with which it flowed into our lives, we are once again planning to use this little gem and this time read "How the Finnegans saved the Ship" (once we can get a hold of the book that is!).
This time our journey into history will cover a bit about immigration to Australia, Ireland, Ships in general, the Titanic voyage, settlement in Australia, what it would have been like for the children, , maps, geography, our ancestors (how did they get here?), oh the list again will be endless once they get those thinking caps on and of course the lessons and learning will vary as I catch onto their interests and follow them through (come on, you didn't think I was actually going to force the learning on them did you? All I have to do is read and ask a few questions and hopefully, once again they will be off on adventures of wonderful learning opportunities!) Oh and there will be at least one excursion thrown in to Sydney to look at ships and visit the Immigration museum.
Of course in my usual fashion there will be loads of Vocabulary, grammar, writing, computer, creative art and what ever else I can sneak in without them noticing. Amazing how easy this can be if their interest is tweaked! (Insert cheeky witches cackle!) We have a couple of friends joining us on this adventure as well so hopefully we will all learn to work in a group and bounce ideas off each other.
As part of the journey touches on the Titanic Voyage, we will also be reading My Story, TITANIC and watching the movie at some stage, just to give them a view of the whole sinking ship scenario. We may even get a bit scientific and delve into icebergs and how they are formed etc. Shhhhhh we won't tell them because naturally they are going to think of it themselves!
Until we start this, A and Z will also be reading "Igraine the Brave" by Cordelia Funke. We will delve into the realm of magic and knights and castles and such. Not getting too heavy as once we start the other lessons we won't have as much time, but hopefully we will still manage to get a bit of history, geography and English thrown in. :-) Yeah, I don't think that teacher in me is ever going to lie down and be still entirely!
SCIENCE: I am not planning anything shhhhh I can sense some experiments coming on, this will be entirely in their hands this term.
Metal work: The boys are taking a metal work class once a week at a highschool with other homeschoolers.
Sport: Swimming and Nippers for Zak. Body boarding and swimming for Adem. Also we are encouraging a bit of walking and jogging as we need to lose a bit of weight.
Of course in the usual fashion there is bound to be more learning than the plan, I don't like to over plan for this very reason. When things come up, we must follow along as the learning happens best this way.
Now I must be away! We have some reading and math to do and then a trip to the pools for a swim. Hopefully at some stage I will also have time for my "one a day project" and some gardening, if the weather clears up of course. Oh and I suppose I should dash out and get some food too, we seem to be a bit short. Have a lovely week all! Its NOT back to school day for us!
Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxo
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Hey Strangers......
Just thought I had better pop in and let you all know I am still alive. We have once again been away. To Queensland this time for six days. Came home with the worst backache LOL I wonder why? Surprisingly I really enjoyed myself considering my lack of enthusiasm at the whole "theme park" idea. The kids made sure I joined them on many rides high in the sky, Zak threatened to send me to Fear Factor if I did not face my fear of heights and just have fun! Guess what? I DID!!!!!!
The standing on stairs one could see through at great heights was not the best fun but the giant water slides going down were awesome! The roller coasters were fun too but my back now hates me! No pics of the bigger rides we were all on them but Zak snapped this one as Mr Yakka and I zoomed past. Don't be fooled my the look of fear on his face, we had just rounded the first big bend, and HE was the one who insisted on sitting in the front seat. By the end he was jumping up and down for more.
It was certainly not the most restful holiday as we pretty much were out everyday at the parks and then there was a couple of nights out too with no break in between! Exhausting, but fun! The kids loved it!
We have come up with a sort of plan for our term four homeschooling this year! As usual the main plan has been thwarted by certain things that have not fallen into place but hey, we are adaptable so will just go with the flow like we normally do!
Zak starts back at Nippers today, so better get everyone out of bed and organised! Hope you are all well.
Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxo
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