Our homeschool escapades: August 2014

Our last lapbook for a while

I decided to do Jock again with them since we are living exactly where he walked and hunted. The kids are also older now and can appreciate it more. I wish I could take the kids to see all the monuments and stuff. Hopefully before we leave the Lowveld we will take a "Jock trip".

This will also be our last lapbook for this year (I think) we are in transition again soon and I need to start packing up and thinking what goes with us to Macedonia as we hope to leave sometime November for a couple of months.

The books Jac has finished the past 2 years.

The books we used for Jock

We did our last little footprints for a while, our next curriculum will, if all goes well be delivered to Macedonia. We loved the "Little Footprints" and will do it again in a year or so.

It is actually sad thinking of leaving all these books in South Africa when we go - but I will see you soon again, I hope.

The map of South Africa and the gooks we did this year so far. Little Footprints combined with My Father's World Kindergarten curriculum.

These are all the things Jac did. the map of South Africa with all the nine provinces and the trek that Jock made. We also talked about the difference between a Croc and an alligator.
We did some footprints of different animals (spoorsny). We talked about the Gold-rush and the mines and all the animals that is in the story

Wild dogs
Baboons
Crocodiles
Kudu
Leopard
Buffalo
Porcupines

Neo-Rie did some extra work about the Shangaan (Tsonga) people and the Grey Loerie or the "Go away" bird as it is sometimes called. Our friend's dog also has puppies so this was an extra surprise and one that she enjoys tremendously. Visiting the mom and pups whenever she can.

Jac and Neo-Rie with the new born puppies!

We also talked about directions. What do you do if you get lost, and how to make a magnet into a compass. Also if you get lost in the Southern Hemisphere how can you find your way again.

Magnetism lessons from Dad

Cool - showing the poles on the magnet

Just playing with the shredded steel

Showing the pull of the magnet

This is where North is? I thought it was the other way!

Jac reading a book.

Zane also did some extra work, he had to write about the Shangaan people and who they are and where they came from.

Zane really drew a nice porcupine!

We talked about obedience and about outer appearance.

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs!

No we did not go to see the Dinosaurs, but we had fun with our own dinosaurs. We still would like to go to Sudwala caves and visit the Dino's there, hopefully soon.

The kids really loved this theme.

We read the book "What Really happened to the dinosaurs" and used a Creationism approach to teach them about the Dinosaurs and that they did not live millions and millions of years ago, but only a couple of thousand!

I took some picture on my phone, the quality is not so good but you can still see it.

We made a volcano

Doing some "real work" hie he

Jac painting some Dino's

Making Dino cookies

Archaeology - digging for dinosaurs

Found something!

Jac's nature book about Dinos, volcanos and countries and flags!

We were also discussing volcano's and ofcouse we had to make one! We decided to make 2, one was a science project, the other one was a volcano cake!

Jac made his volcano from moon-sand and play clay