Stone Soup

I thought I'd share a little of our homeschool with you guys! We are a good way into the year and enjoying learning together..

We are doing Five in a Row for most of our Language Arts and enrichment for our other subjects.. We are also doing some of the Literary Classics in pure ASL. We basically follow the FIAR method with these books, bringing in academic elements from text, and making these stories come alive!

Of course it starts with the book! We read the book or versions of the book everyday for 5 days pulling out all of the amazing bring-it-to-life awesomeness!!! Then, we read the classic book in both languages, and then we have a child-friendly version to work on decoding skills! Lastly, we move to a video, hopefully we can find one in ASL, with English voice over, and English text! DawnSign Press does an amazing job!!! This helps with comprehension and helps the kids relate to the text...

Videos is ASL by Dawnsign Press. 

Rewriting and Language Activities! 

Cooking and Measuring! Did I mention they picked their stone out of the garden?!? 

We loved our Stone Soup unit!!! 

 Yep, that's the stone!!! LOL!

....and Our Butterflies Flew Away~

We observed our little butterflies for about a week, then it was time to let them go... 

Wow, just wow! What an experience! 

 This is me explaining how the butterfly drinks through the proboscis in ASL..

Art for the 4th of July!

I saw this one Pinterest so I'm not sure who to give credit to for this fun.. We have loved it!!! It's so nice to have a nice craft for the summer months!

We just cut toilet paper rolls, dipped in paint, and started swishing on paper!

 Glitter!

Finished!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Observing Butterflies

We finally got around to ordering our butterfly caterpillars...a fun journey learning about Life Cycles.

Our tiny caterpillars arrived with their food..some barely out of the egg. 

 They double in size everyday!

 All ready to go inside...

 The molten skin...uck! Those little circles, yeah, that's poop! >>a ton of poop!

 Time to hang them in the enclosure...

 New home...

Our first little guy...

 We made nectar dropped on the flowers and fresh fruit..

 Flying around and enjoying their new habitat...

 A little peek at the beauty!

 The empty chrysalis..

Looking at butterfly wings, legs, and antenna under a microscope.

 We also read some great Usborne books!!!

I love Usbourne Books!!! I had a party recently and you can still order till July 4th online at https://f5935.myubam.com/320070 Thanks for reading!

Painting in the Summer

My kids are so ready for summer!! That said, I'm not ready for the heat!!! We play outside in the morning, but by noon it's just too hot! So, I have been saving little fun things from the school year... one of them is painting!
Thanks to Netflix putting on Bob Ross episodes we now have our favorite summer activity!

 This is all for fun...no pressure, no perfection~ only fun!

 

In their little imaginations they are in a famous studio! 

Imagination!!!
It's also relaxing...which makes it a great way to spend the summer, well, at least during the hottest times of the day!