Filled to the Brim Homeschooling

Our homeschool days are filled to the brim with many different ages and curriculums. We have a :

• 2 yr old, with Down Syndrome
• 5 yr old, kindergartener
• 10 yr old, 5th grader
• 11 yr old, 6th grader
• 13 yr old, 8th grader
• 15 yr old, 10th grader

Each day the children are responsible for pulling out their own books and doing the assigned work. They have a weekly chart ,with each day of the week on it, to fill in. At the end of each day they hand it in and I fill out my daily curriculum page. All except the 2 and 5 year old do this on their own. This fosters a sense of independent learning and responsibitity. I am available when questions arise or difficulties with any lessons.

On Hannah's desk is her chart and her history assignment for the day, She is reading about early American History in "From Sea to Shining Sea" put out by CHC.

 All of the children have been working on figuring out the main ideas of paragraphs appropriate to their grade level. There is a great website called K12Reader.com and it has a lot of great literary worksheets and advice.

There are even high school level worksheets which exphose students to classic literary works. They have pargraphs from Moby Dick, Romeo and Juliet, The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to name a few. It can be used for an introduction to a longer novel or alone for those who may get overwhelmed by reading.

This is the science book my 8th grader is using, "  Life Science, All Creatures Great and Small". I spread this book out over a two year period and am excited to learn they are coming out with a new updated color version of this text at CHC, soon.

My little kindergartener has been working on the typical grade K work, phonics, addition, sequencing, the seasons, pilgrims, etc.  She used stamps to fill in the letters on the above worksheet, a fun way to encourage phonics and spelling.

She also takes up helping her little brother as well. Unfortunately, seasonal colds have been making their way through our homeschool as well.

 The kids display some of their favorite papers or activities on our show and tell bar we have hanging on our wall. Right now we have a leaf collection, a pilgrim coloring page and...

a drawing and description of a lion, part of our African study...

a "Lord of the Rings" coloring page. We are reading this as a group and our  kidergartener did this while listening to us.

Here is another part of the leaf collection by our 5th grader, she is also drawing flowers for her nature notebook. The kids do are quite good at keeping themselves on track in their individual subjects, they are interested learners and their lives are filled to the brim with learning opportunities.