A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

Our homeschool week really began on Sunday when our Family Home Evening Lesson was on emergency preparedness--specifically escape routes and safe meeting locations in the event of an emergency. We reviewed the family safe meeting place plans: 1-the soccer field (where to go when we first escape the house) 2-the library (a safe meeting place in our neighborhood in case our street is cut off) 3-the church (a safe meeting place outside of our neighborhood) 4-Auntie R--'s house (a safe meeting place outside of our city) We also talked about how to escape the house and we practiced setting up and climbing down our emergency ladders for window escapes from the upper story of our house.  It was a little bit scary for us, but we had everyone except the 2 babies see what it was like, so that now everyone has had some experience and will be less scared in an actual emergency. Blurry, yes, but I was trying to focus in the dark.  This is Brother climbing down with lots of enc...

We finished The Green Ember on Sunday night.  After all of our debates over its merits and faults, we placed an interlibrary loan request to borrow the second book in the series.  I won't read it aloud, but I'll bet it will be passed around from kid to kid for individual reading.  I appreciated the message that a person who fails doesn't have to be defined by that failure--that with effort can come success. Monday We focused on geography for symposium.  While the kids made collages inspired by butterfly art of the Central African Republic, I read aloud about African animals from A to Z .  Then I turned on Youtube videos ( here and here ) about Africa that they listened to while they kept working and working and working, so that I could put the babies down for naps. Mister Man Ladybug Pixie Working hard . . .  . . . even for days in a row. Nature Angel finished her meerkat on Thursday We also did all of the regular st...