Wednesday, February 6, 2008

OUR HOMESCHOOL SET-UP

Our dining room:
This is where I keep most of their work & activities for the week. The girls just choose which activity they would like to do next. Of course some of them they turn their nose up at, so I just leave them there or try to interest them later on, may be even adapt the activity to suit their interests. (note the horses head on the Maths sheet - Miss 6 loves horses).


Getting organised:
The girls have paper scrapbooks for each subject - Maths, English, Science, which we paste each days work into. As you can see we have been reviewing number 9.

I draw up charts with lists of activites that are useful for revision and tick them as we use them (say 3-4 times a month) - saves me having to think up ideas every week. I just use the same ones over again, eg. Making playdough letters/words, Frij magnet sentences, Leap pad, Cut up words.
I keep a list of all the useful websites I come across over time next to the computer, listed under different subjects such as Phonics, Science, Animal studies, etc, otherwise my Favourites list would be enormous!

1 comment:

mama2boys said...

oh, you look so organized! I'm jealous! lol! I love your idea of the file for favorites-I will have to borrow that one! My favorites list is very hard to wade through!
Darci (mom2boys @GCM) :-)

Puzzle map of Australia

Puzzle map of Australia
They had to match & name the floral emblems with the right states.

POPULATION by Braylee & AUSTRALIA IS AN ISLAND by Maitlyn.

POPULATION by Braylee & AUSTRALIA IS AN ISLAND by Maitlyn.

After looking at the floral emblems of Australia, the girls wanted to discover what leaves they could find and indentify the shapes.

Maitlyn very proud of her school work and Braylee did this great Ken Done-looking dot-to-dot drawing of the map of Australia wth icons for each state.