It’s so convenient when the local children’s museum has an entire exhibit on one of your history units. It’s not so convenient when said museum has a three-story climbing structure where your child can get in on the first floor and out on the third floor. Clearly there was not a mom-engineer on that team.
We don’t do cleaning or chores regularly enough to institute a chore chart or schedule, but I was looking for a way to motivate the kids to help out when we did get around to straightening up. I was also looking for a way to take the fight out of school assignments. Most of the...
Some games are universal. Apparently, this is one where you stare at each other and the first one who laughs gets bopped on the head by the winner.
In addition to the specific resources for this week, we are also listening to Story of the World (SOTW) on CD, watching selected episodes of Drive Thru History, and keeping a cummulative timeline of things we learn in history. I am planning appropriate activities for Mia that are a little less complicated than last year...
I’ve found it’s really important to intentionally meet Ty’s sensory needs throughout the day or we all pay the price. The newest trick is to lay on him while we do our read aloud for the day.
We now have 8 people taking Tae Kwon Do. Most Mondays mean 3 hours at the Do Jang so everyone can get to a leveled class. Dinner is usually cereal in the back room. Sometimes it’s ice cream.
Together under one roof (or one Welcome Home sign).