No big adventures since our trip to the coast. We had a lovely Thanksgiving with family. S participated in the National Write a Novel Month. 
She wrote a story about a dolphin family and a cat family who all lived underwater together. Their favorite activity? Organizing worship services and Bible classes.
Yes, we are still having daily school lessons. We still aren't back to a full schedule, just the basics. We have added a unit study this month on Christmas celebrations around the world.
We've been learning about food (tamales, lasagne, and pavlova), tree lightnings, parades, and nativities. Some countries have practically no celebrations while others are very religious in nature and others use Christmas as a status symbol.
We've also started working through the daily activities posted at
This is the website creation from the Old Schoolhouse Magazine. They have made huge changes and improvements in the last year. A year ago, it was more like an interactive magazine. Now, it's turned into a resource we use daily for multiple lessons. If it was at this point last year, there wouldn't have been any school downtime.
So, what daily lessons are we following? We are using the daily writing prompts for the ones who aren't using IEW. Our geography is now a daily lesson on a trip through the US. Each day, we get a new lesson related to a state's history. There are roughly 20 lessons on each state - so 1 state a month. This month, we are studying Idaho. There are also daily lessons for Canada and New Zealand/Australia.
We are also following the daily art lessons. Some days we look at a picture/painting and analyze it. Others, history of the pictures area is examined or the artist is researched. There are even hands-on activities sometimes. The pictures change once a week.
Science also has a daily lesson. Right now, the lessons are on the planets. We are in the middle of Botany so we haven't been following the astronomy posts daily. The material looks great though. It's something I will be able to use to create some children's activities next time we go to the star party.
She wrote a story about a dolphin family and a cat family who all lived underwater together. Their favorite activity? Organizing worship services and Bible classes.Yes, we are still having daily school lessons. We still aren't back to a full schedule, just the basics. We have added a unit study this month on Christmas celebrations around the world.
We've been learning about food (tamales, lasagne, and pavlova), tree lightnings, parades, and nativities. Some countries have practically no celebrations while others are very religious in nature and others use Christmas as a status symbol.
We've also started working through the daily activities posted at
This is the website creation from the Old Schoolhouse Magazine. They have made huge changes and improvements in the last year. A year ago, it was more like an interactive magazine. Now, it's turned into a resource we use daily for multiple lessons. If it was at this point last year, there wouldn't have been any school downtime.
So, what daily lessons are we following? We are using the daily writing prompts for the ones who aren't using IEW. Our geography is now a daily lesson on a trip through the US. Each day, we get a new lesson related to a state's history. There are roughly 20 lessons on each state - so 1 state a month. This month, we are studying Idaho. There are also daily lessons for Canada and New Zealand/Australia.
We are also following the daily art lessons. Some days we look at a picture/painting and analyze it. Others, history of the pictures area is examined or the artist is researched. There are even hands-on activities sometimes. The pictures change once a week.
Science also has a daily lesson. Right now, the lessons are on the planets. We are in the middle of Botany so we haven't been following the astronomy posts daily. The material looks great though. It's something I will be able to use to create some children's activities next time we go to the star party.
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