Our homeschool escapades: 2011

Healthy body and food. Gogo went to vote

I have combined two themes again, they kind of are similar so it works for me. We did the book "The day Gogo went to vote" about the first open elections in South Africa. We talked about the previous president Nelson Mandela, learned (are still busy learning) Nkosi Sikelele i Africa. Our national anthem.

We also talked about the food in the book (Samp) and also then combined it with healthy food , fruit and vegetables from the "MFW" curriculum.

We prayed for the two nations the Roma and the Ica people in Columbia.

We talked about staying healthy and doctors and the food pyramid etc

Healthy food

Healthy living

South African flag, and Nelson Mandela

This was our last "official" school of the year. Here are the pictures of our prayer wall and our maps of South Africa.

I have also included pics of some of the books we did this year.

Our prayerwall

South Africa

Books we did this year

Just for fun

Water day

Every day ended in water day it was very hot

Neo-Rie and Elisa

Kids playground at our home (Africa School of Missions)

Painting is also fun

Had some extra kids

one of her animals

After the holidays we did the "Just for Fun" theme of Kids Sparkz curriculum. I sometime combine this curriculum with my other 2 , My Fathers world and Footprints in our land. We had pizza day, water and bubbles and mud day. We also had ice cream day!

We also made some lapbooks, here are some of the pics not all

building day

And Jac was very tired at the end of the day

Jac had fun making this painting

Insects

Insects took up a lot of our time and the children loved it. Especially Neo-Rie. Since then I couldn't rid my house of ants and bugs and even frogs. She had them in the bath, in the bed and everywhere. I finally bought a hamster and for the past 3 days I had no other animals in the house.

Let't see how long that will last.

Here are some pics.