Babies make homeschooling even more fun!

These last few weeks have gone by so fast that I have found it unmanageable to blog weekly about our activities and events. Here are the ones that have stood out. Bethany has found homeschooling suits her desire to constantly imitate her siblings and pretend she is really big. Sometimes, she makes excitement where there otherwise wouldn't be. ;) She recently discovered she can climb onto the table! So much fun for everyone except mom!


The kids took Costco boxes and made pizzerias out of them, as well as a collection of fake money. Wolfgang and Psalm set up two different shops and tried to outsell each other. It gave us a great opportunity to discuss the financial elements of running a business and ways to entice customers to spend more money.

This tied in with our Konos unit (which I will explain in a different blog) about attentiveness. One of our activities was to look at advertisements and discuss those elements which grab our attention and make us more likely to pay attention to the ad.

We learned about verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Rather than matching pictures with adjectives on a worksheet, the kids made a stack of adjectives and spent an hour hunting for things in the house on which to stick them. Bethany proved helpful in this instance.

(that says "soft" with a little drawing of a blankie :)

We have been acting out verbs and journaling about our activities. Writing is "hit or miss" with Wolfgang right now. Sometimes, he doesn't mind at all and really enjoys it. Other times, it's like pulling teeth. Same goes for math.

We played "Grandmother's Attic" and made it all the way to "M" before the boys pooped out. Zoya and I made it to Z!

We drew and labelled parts of the ear (inner and outer), discussed terms like "concentrate" and "dilute," and wrote lists of things that distract us.

We set up a science experiment when Wolfgang told us that light causes evaporation. I asked Wolf how he would prove that. He put a cup of water near a light source and a cup of water in a dark drawer. He wrote a hypothesis and, once we determined that both cups lost water, wrote a conclusion about the experiment. Then, we did experiments involving heat to determine if that may have played a factor and he wrote his conclusions about that as well.

Altogether, I'm very pleased with how things are going. I will attempt to blog more this evening if wakefulness permits.