Saturday, 14 June 2014

Carnival of Homeschooling {Edition # 441}

Welcome to the 441st edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling where home school families share their homeschool wisdom with us from all over the world via their blogs.


Carnival of Homeschooling was started by the Cate Family over at Why Homeschool and has been a tremendous source of home school support and information.


This Week

Over at Why Homeschool  Janine shares 10 things I have learned about educating children over our 15 years of homeschooling.

  Sharon from over at Awakening Your True Self shares: " There is much fanfare over the first day of the New Year and many people make resolutions about things that they will start or stop doing when January 1st rolls around. I do not limit myself to starting over on the first day of January, as sometimes the early days or months of a new year seem more like what I wanted to leave behind than what I planned to carry forward. " Creating the Life You Want To Live


Sola Gratia Mom shares The Wisdom of a Weed I need to weed my garden more often, so I don't have those weeds that take up residence and are difficult to remove. There is much wisdom in the weeds....


Kerin from over at Vocabuverse is still writing a dictionary! Be sure to take a look at this clever rhyme What is 24 Hour Time ?

Jennifer encourages us to remember that Sometimes, It’s Okay To Turn Back over at Home Grown Mommy


Carol asks: "Do any of you, like me, have curriculum sitting on your shelf, that if you are honest with yourself, you will probably never use? I want to share some experiences I’ve learned about money and homeschooling in a podcast with guest Susan Raber." Read more about Money Myths Homeschool Moms Believe. Dollars and Sense Show #13 over at Homeschool CPA

 Over at Today's Trial is Tomorrow's Testimony Jennifer shares some thoughts on beginning homeschooling..

Family, Faith, and Fridays

Michele over at Family, Faith, and Friday's shares their favourite curriculum choices for 2013-2014.


 This week Sarah over at Delivering Grace shares her insights on The Cost of Home Education.

Jen has made some FREE Workbox Labels over at the Chestnut Grove Academy for you. Jen also has a tutorial to make a DIY turning an Ikea Lack Table into a Light Table.

 If your looking for a summer reading list take a look at Our Summer Reading Plans at Raventhreads. Be encouraged to Keep Your Children in the Word All Summer.

 Teaching and understanding fractions can be challenging.  The Canadian Homeschooler shares a list of resources to help with Teaching Your Kids About ... Fractions.

Ben and Me

Marcy from over at Ben and Me shares her thoughts on So You Think You Want to Homeschool? 10 Things You Should Know

Finch n Wren


Wren shares her thoughts on her 5th essential for Homeschooling: LOVE over at Finchwren.

For the Display of His Splendor

Ever wondered why some families home educate ? You can read why over at For The Display of His Splendor.  Homeschool Essential: Kids and Why We Started Homeschooling


Tara over at This Sweet Life shares their favourite 5th Grade Homeschool Curricula. 



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D is for Decisions ?? Kym from over at Homeschool Coffee Break discusses some important things to consider when thinking about curriculum and your homeschool for the new year ahead.

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Are you Considering Homeschooling ?  If you are Jenn over at Simblissity shares some thoughts in this three part series.

In celebration of the World Cup I have put together a post of links for a unit study covering Brazil, soccer and the world cup.

Thank you for visiting the carnival this week may you be as I have been.


Blessings

Chareen 


Next weeks Carnival will be hosted by Constance over at The Foodie Army Wife.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

2014 World Cup Soccer Unit Study Resources

I've managed to leave this a little late and the FIFA World Cup starts in a few days, but as they say better late than never.  Here are some resources I discovered online today when looking for resources about the soccer world cup.

Did you know that the first World Cup Soccer tournament was held in Uruguay on the 13th of July 1930 with 13 teams from around the world. Uruguay was also the first nation to win the World Cup.

The original cup (Jules Rimet Trophy) was stolen and not recovered and the current cup was commissioned in 1974. The World Cup is 36.5 cm tall,  is made of  5 Kg of 18 carat gold and weights 6.175 kg. There has been some speculation about which parts of it are solid gold.  You can watch an interesting YouTube clip about it here: Chemistry of the World Cup Trophy

At the Library
To Print
On Pinterest {FIFA 2014 World Cup Soccer}

On YouTube

On the WWW

Host Country Brazil
Although this video clip is from the South African World Cup I wanted to finish up with it because it's so much fun to watch: Animals Playing Soccer.





If you have any recommended resources for studying the Soccer World Cup OR Brazil please add them to the link up below.

Have fun learning about the Soccer World Cup

Blessings
Chareen

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Saturday, 7 June 2014

It's been a cultured week {HSMJ}

In my life this week…
It's been one of those weeks two long weeks where everything just takes a long time ... Have you heard about the Willis Clan ?  What an amazing home educating family of 12 children. Music and dance are not optional for this amazing family and it shows.  They have several dance and wrestling titles between them and tour and recently auditioned for America's got talent where they sing their own version of These are a few of my favourite things. They enjoy Irish Dancing.  I have been totally blown away reading each child's biography.


In our home school this week…
  • We have been working our way through a ton of library books.
  • Started back into our drawing class. We are now attempting to draw a face.  Mmm let's not tempt fate so we are using a provided outline for this one.
  • We are both enjoying our history journey with Veritas history.
  • N is working through Science 4 Us 
  • Much to his excitement N has started his official first round with Minecraft Homeschool.  Minecraft does my head in but he is enjoying it.  In week one we did orientation and this past week we learned about the Grand Canyon.  This week is the Great Barrier Reef.
  • I dug out our Learning Vitamins and we are once again doing math drill work.
  • I was pleased to discover that Apologia have brought out junior notebooks for their apologetics series.
  • We have also started a new learn the piano from home course called Homeschool Piano which has inspired N to play around on the piano.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…
Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
  • Saturday week ago we attended Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music.  
  • We experienced Flip Out trampolining for the first time.
  • Went Ten Pin bowling.
  • Had a birthday.  Sir N is now officially nine years old.
  •  Attended a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Meet the Orchestra day.
  • My sister baked the most amazing minion cake for Sir N's birthday party on Saturday. Be sure to check out her Cake decorating page on Facebook Sunflower Creations Cake
 
My favourite thing this week was…
  • Seeing this beautiful prom dress a high school senior painted by hand.  She painted Vincent Van Gough's Starry Starry Night painting on her dress.  Beautiful.
  • So very proud of Sir N a photograph he took at Werribee Zoo was featured on their Facebook page.  It has had 890 likes and 50 shares.
Questions/thoughts I have…
  • What are your thoughts on teaching and learning Latin ?
Things I’m working on…
  • Read about our first book study guide.  We did Frog and Toad Together.
In Bloggy world I’m reading…
A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

I enjoyed watching this update of their lives. You can jump to 7:35 for the update.

Blessings

Chareen

Homegrown Learners

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