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February 2016 homeschool report

February 26, 2016 Ticia 12 Comments

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact it’s 2016, and now I also have to cope with it being 1/6 done.  I’m not ready for this, but we had a good month of homeschooling, and if I’m honest with myself we were actually pretty productive.

I’ll approach this much like I do with my Inservice in the Inbox newsletters, and go alphabetically.

 

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Bible

We haven’t had anything super exciting in our Bible at home, the kids are slowly reading through the Gospels this year along with our church, and are about halfway through the book of Matthew.  We did have a great lesson about prayer, which I absolutely loved, and I’ve printed off a brand new study for me (which I’ll be sharing with you on Sunday, along with a coupon code).  I’m super excited to start it.  Continuing our lessons through the Parables has been held up by lack of ink and cardstock.  Every time I’ve gone to the store, they’ve been out of my favorite brand of cardstock (yes, it’s a ridiculous thing to be picky about).

Geography

Queen Victoria's bathing machine

After a few false starts in geography, this year, we’ve started back in and started learning about the United Kingdom, which meant a very fun book on Queen Victoria.  The kids had fun designing a bathing machine for her.

Hawaii state study
all the proof I have of our Hawaii studies, isn’t that sad?

We also studied Hawaii, but that was amazingly boring, aside from my successfully cooking Hawaiian meatballs (though I did burn the second batch).

History

Mystery of History 3 month

We finished up our first semester in The Mystery of History 3* with a week of funschooling, for Queen Elizabeth 1, of which a few of the activities were a big success, and some were rather, “meh, that’s okay Mom.”  Looking back over my pictures, there was even more we did for our funschooling: we had a lesson on Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the kids built LEGO re-enactments of the queens of the time (Mary Tudor, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth).  The bottom two pictures are of our Queen Elizabeth portraits activities.

We just read all about Sir Walter Raleigh and the lost colony of Roanoke, which caused the kids to go build a colony of Roanoke in Minecraft.

Math

Life of Fred math homeschool

Just as I thought we had solved all of Princess’ math problems with Life of Fred math, she insisted she wanted to switch back to her brother’s math, and “why are you holding me behind Mom?”  Which was rather amusing to me.

We’ve also implemented a fraction of the day to work on kids finding equivalent fractions and other boring things.

Science

feather experiment

In CKE Biology* we finished up the bird unit, and had some fun studying feathers, even if our nature walk was a bust.  We hurried through the mammals unit so we can go to the zoo next week before spring break and the massive crowds.

 

General life stuff

February life

I almost forgot to give an update of our general life.  February was a month of busy weekends, we had one weekend free, and ended up using that weekend to help a friend move (that’s two of the pictures up there).  Another weekend was the father/daughter dance and Princess quite happily posed with Jeff for pictures.  We also spent one morning helping the camp the kids have gone to several times, they were caught in the Bastrop fires last fall, and so we helped repair cabins that hadn’t been caught in the fire.  They’re going to have to find completely new land for the camp until the land grows back.

And for a bit of fun, here’s the games we played this month:

  • Kings of Israel– and here’s my Kings of Israel review if you’re curious
  • Shadows of Brimstone– my boys are ridiculously obsessed with this
  • Geopuzzle– the kids have been randomly putting them together when bored
  • Favor of Pharaoh– I love the combination of Dominion game and Yahtzee
  • Smash Up– my boys play this a lot with their friends, Smash Up review

What did ya’ll love on the blog last month?

It looks like this is the exact same as last month, which is boring to me.  So, I’ll take the next 3:

  • Lord’s Prayer Craft
  • Joseph’s Coat activities for kids
  • Call of 12 Disciples activities

What I’ve enjoyed reading recently

  • I am loving this series on zippers over at iKat Bag
  • Super Bowl ads without watching the Super Bowl, I’m slowly watching these as I remember them
  • Queen Elizabeth lesson plans

memories month in review

Comments

  1. claire says

    February 26, 2016 at 5:53 am

    What a lovely busy and well rounded month!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 26, 2016 at 7:15 am

      Yes it was.

  2. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    February 26, 2016 at 6:21 am

    It seems as if you accomplished a lot! Was the father-daughter dance with your homeschool group, church….? I know what you mean about having trouble with having much to show for work done.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 26, 2016 at 7:15 am

      It was with American Heritage Girls, but hosted at a Catholic Church by the troop from that church.

  3. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    February 26, 2016 at 11:42 am

    Another great month for you (well, minus all the pneumonia!). What are you doing for writing?

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 26, 2016 at 2:56 pm

      I’m giving different writing assignments, so this month they spent most of it working on a research report, they all chose different animals.

  4. MaryAnne says

    February 26, 2016 at 1:02 pm

    Pneumonia is tough! I feel like 2016 is flying by so far.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 26, 2016 at 2:56 pm

      It really is flying by crazy fast.

  5. Dawn says

    February 27, 2016 at 7:08 am

    That Queen Victoria book looks awesome. I will have to look for that one. What a great month. I can hardly believe that March is almost here.
    Blessings, Dawn

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 27, 2016 at 7:58 pm

      Neither can I, this year is sailing by.

      It is really awesome, AND it has a picture of the actual bathing machine Prince Albert had built.

  6. Mother of 3 says

    March 5, 2016 at 5:45 am

    What a fun month; but it is rather hard to believe it’s March already!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 10, 2016 at 8:17 am

      I know, I keep thinking it’s not that far into the year, and then it’s further!

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