Friday, September 2, 2011

Found A Great Blog!!

I found another great blog that I am adding to my blog list and wanted to share it with you all: Journey to Excellence Nicole has a son around Kelly's age and I found it fantastic how she updates what he is doing. So many times as the child gets older you see less and less posts about the older child but not on Nicole's blog! She has a ton a great ideas and books that they have read which I am looking into now. I just LOVE it when I find another great blog!!

School is going okay, We are still trying to find our stride. I am really enjoying Mystery of History, but of course when I read Nicole's blog and saw she had been using: A World of Adventure by Dorian Holt and how that looks like a fantastic curriculum all packed into one I wish I would have looked into that a bit closer.
Anyway, Back to Mystery of History I am Loving that we are reading the Bible for part of our school work. It is just so uplifting and gives you hope when things are down!
We are also LOVING the Swiss Family Robinson book! Kelly actually asked me if we could draw a map of their island so we could better visualize the different areas they are talking about - I say HELL YEAH! I love seeing her drawn into a book! She loves these types of books they remind her of The Sims castaway video game that she loves playing.
For science we are working on cells - We look at each other and I can see we both have that glazed over look. Not going well at all, we are not understanding it very much and of course I lose her quickly when that happens. I will need to tweek science for sure....
Well I won't bore you will more about our week but just enjoying getting back rolling on school work again.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!

6 comments:

Jennifer said...

Since Kelly is visual, this might work better for Kelly to understand cells http://razzysmom.blogspot.com/2008/09/unit-1-cell-model.html This is what I plan to do with my daughter when we get to that point. I makes it much more clear to me to visualize a cell this way that the traditional way :)

Donna said...

Thanks Jennifer for the blog address, I will look into it! : )

Nicole said...

Thanks for the shout out, Donna! I really am so glad you are finding my blog helpful! I LOVE that your daughter wanted to draw a map of the island on Swiss Family Robinson.

Cells ... There are some great jello models, etc., that can be done. I just came across another one here recently that looked awesome, so I'll try to see if I can find it.

Nicole said...

Oh, yeah. We are building our science curriculum off the book, The Way Life Works. I am picking it up from the library on Tuesday to make sure it's what we want before I purchase it. The blog I taking this curriculum from uses lots of Living Books, which is my favorite way to teach/learn.

Phyllis said...

LOL, Donna....shows you how out of it I am. I have corrected it now. Thanks for pointing it out.

Phyllis said...

I have two posts on cell models...a jello animal cell and a cookie plant cell....scroll down a bit to see them...hope that helps...
http://homeschooljournal-bergblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Genetics