Week 3 & 4 {HSMJ}

In my life this week…
Wow those two weeks sped by a lot faster than I expected.  Why is it life seems to zoom past when you get older ?  I've always enjoyed the idea of writing out scripture and have done so a few times in the past.  This month over at His Mercy is New Candace is inviting us to write out Philippians in the month of March.  She has a FREE printable (you can download it without subscribing) to help keep you on track. She has a page full of links to FREE monthly calendars and printables to pray God's Word.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• 9 Features of a Charlotte Mason Education by Michelle.
• I love book lists and rediscovered this one by Jimmie Ultimate List of Living Books Based Curriculum
• Geography is one of those subjects that is rather difficult to find good books on. Wonderful Charlotte Mason style geography books available free online
• Have you seen this ? Music Education for Everyone with Hoffman Academy  
• Are you studying the oceans or microscopes ?  Check these pictures:  A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times
• 10 FREE Online Homeschool Resources 
• Discovered a new history resource this week.  Have you heard of Realm of History?  Check out this one: Animation showcases the Pompeii disaster with accurate 3D rendering of the events
• Here is another interesting history resource: HistoriCool
• Stanford professor urges teachers to rethink math instruction 

In our home school this week…

• We are continuing with recorder lessons and am pleased to say we will be graduating to book two soon.
• We've continued making wonderful things from Clever DIY. This week he made three key-rings with the contents from their January box - My Room.
• We're looking forward to growing mushrooms with our mushroom mini farm.
• This week we continued reading:
  Ten Boys Who Didn't Give In
  The Trumpet of the Swan. 
  History of Australia. 
  Usborne Time Traveller
  Little Pilgrim's Progress
  Leading Little Ones to God
  Favorite Poems of Childhood.
  Exploring Creation : With Astronomy
  Story of the World 
• We continued listening to our Audio book: The Fellowship of the Ring Book 1 by J.R.R.TOLKIEN. Read by Rob Inglis
• We watched Titanic 100 years in 3D and The Great Pyramid from Ancient Megastructures.
• For fun we read What's Smaller than a Pygmy Shrew and How do you lift a lion ?  These two books are a fun way to introduce microscope biology and physics.
• In science we started reading What's Under the Sea? 
• We have nearly finished reading Adam and His Kin and I'm so pleased that I added this to our list of books to read out loud together.
• We watched a short episode on Venus on Toons TV: The Rocket Science Show and presented by Jim Green (Planetary Science Division Director NASA. )
• For art this week we commenced a See the Light project with Pat Knepley.  We did lesson one of Repeated Sweets.

My favourite thing this week was…

• Reading this beautiful article about how an actor felt about the audience's response to an autistic child's panic during his performance.  My faith in humanity is restored :) Broadway Star has a message to the Austistic Child Screaming at His Show - and it's AWESOME
• I loved seeing this beautiful wedding dress and even more that she made it so she can wear it after her wedding  Woman Spends 5 Months Crocheting A Wedding Dress On The Bus. Here are some photo's from her wedding

 On the WWW I’m reading…

• American College of Pediatricians Sounds Alarm About HPV Vaccine (Gardasil)
• The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet
• 10 Things You Should Know About Aspies  
• I found this article interesting.  A lot of natural good advice for anyone even if they do not have bi-polar. ( How I'm Helping My Kids' Bipolar Disorder Naturally)
• I love this beautiful article about how a cat became a child's therapy animal and is helping her to live a 'normal' life How This Cat Helps A Little Girl With Autism Live Her Life To The Fullest
• Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains Turns out mom's are connected to their children more literally than we originally thought.  
• I love encouraging feel good stories and it's even better when I see young people helping others like this Tim Tebow hosts ‘Night to Shine’ prom for tens of thousands of special needs kids (PHOTOS)

Blessings
Chareen

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Our THIRD art project from Clever DIY. Nathaniel made three key-rings with the contents from their January box - My Room.

These were very easy to make.  We used foam shapes and craft glue.

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This weeks feature is from over at Homeschool Coffee Break.  These Chinese Paper Cutting motifs were inspired from Geography Through Art.

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A Day Home Schooling an Only

Welcome to a day in our home school.  I don't know where or how the tradition started but we always wake up and enjoy a cup of tea together.  It's something we did as a family before the children joined us and once they were about four months old they joined us for a wake up cup of tea.  It's what we do to start off our day.  Very few days go by without a morning cup of tea.  Somehow it does not feel complete unless we have sat together in the lounge before Paul leaves before work.  These day's it's just the three of us as Jane is currently enjoying a year overseas working and exploring the U.K. at the moment and Timothy has a slightly different schedule to us.

As I share our day with you I would leave one word of caution.  Never try to make a carbon copy of another families normal day.  Every home schooling family is unique and therefore so should their day be unique.

The Schoolhouse Review Crew would like to welcome you into their homes this week as they share their unique and individual days with you.

Paul works a slightly unique roster meaning that our daily rhythm is slightly different every week.  On a work day he leaves for work at around 7:30 am.

Once he leaves it's time for breakfast, bed making, getting dressed for the day and morning chores.  These are normally things like unpacking the dishwasher and either starting the clothes washer or hanging the already washed clothing. Once these are complete it's time to begin with our school work.

We start our reading list with bible study and encouraging books.

•  Ten Boys Who Didn't Give In 
• Little Pilgrim's Progress
• Adam and His Kin 
• Hero Tales Volume 1
• Leading Little Ones to God

We then read some more and explore different subjects.  If Nathaniel asks a question while we are reading we will take some time and look for the answer.  We also do word studies while we are reading.  Little Pilgrim's Progress has given us plenty of opportunities to expand our vocabulary recently.

 Our currently read aloud for fun is The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B.White.  This is such a beautifully written story.
This year I am adding in poetry reading.  We are not studying poetry but rather just taking the time to read it as part of our day.  We are using Favorite Poems of Childhood.
My all time favourite composer study series is from Zeezok publishing and we are currently reading their book on the life of Joseph Haydn - The Merry Little Peasant.

 We take a small break and then it is time for music practice followed by morning tea.

 Followed by more time cuddled together on the couch when we tackle our history read alouds. This year we are continuing our journey with the ancients and have added an introduction to Australian History.  Our books are:

• Story of the World 
• Living Long Ago
• Usborne Time Traveller
• History of Australia.   

 Some days we choose to watch documentaries on Netflix or we take one off our DVD shelf.  Yesterday we looked up a few YouTube clips about the ancient Chinese practice of foot binding.

By now it's usually lunch time and time for more chores.

 After lunch we tackle the remaining books in our pile and this day it was the sciences. We are reading:

• Exploring Creation : With Astronomy
• A Child's Geography
• The Kingfisher Factfinder.

Next it's time to get out all the pencils and practice the rest of the Three R's. It's time writing and arithmetic.

Most afternoons we have something happening.  Some days it's art co-op and on others it's fellowship etc.

Paul get's home at around 5 pm and then it's time to play with Pugsley and do evening chores.  Pugsley adores Nathaniel and loves his ball (Yes it's a golf ball.  That's the only ball he does not destroy!)

 Homeschooling an only has stretched me in ways I never thought possible and it's a blessing in the most amazing ways as well.  Asperger's Syndrome frustrates us both some days and on other days it's brought about much laughter.  Every day is different and yet somehow the same. Homeschooling has been one of life surprises and it's biggest blessing.  I'm grateful for each new day I get to be this boys Mom and friend.  I get to be there for every amazing adventure and new discovery.  His passion at the moment is movie making and through this I am learning how God has made this miracle gift to me in His image and not mine.

Thank you for sharing our day with us.  I endevour to share our days / week each week on a Saturday via The Homeschool Mother's Journal and daily on Instagram (@Chareenr).  You can see what our favourite books are and hands on projects we have been up to as well as the places we explore on our Field Trips.

This post is part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew blog Hop A Day in Our Homeschool.  Be sure to check out what my homeschooling friends days look like.

Blessings
Chareen