Homeschooling sometimes feels like a race.. a race to finish. When we started homeschooling we were on the South African timetable. Starting our year in January and ending in November with a couple of holidays in between. Then we moved to Macedonia and for the last 2 years I have been trying to change it to start in September and finish in June....... it is not working.... so why the rush and urgency to do this. Sometimes I wish I could do it, but then again when we have to return to South Africa for a couple of months I would like to go in the summer not winter (South African summer). So I guess we will not get on any timetable for a while and just have our own one.
So we have finished most of our subjects and will continue doing some Maths and science in October and then start our new year in November again..I hope... because we would like to go back to South Africa end of August next year, and then I will be late starting our new year again. I just can't win this thing.... I should stop trying too...
Ok so this year we finished our "Countries and Cultures" curriculum from "My Father's World"
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| Some of the books we used |
We traveled through the whole world with "play passports" and plane, boat and train tickets. Exchanged money at each port and had some fun learning about new cultures and countries. We also prayed for the new cultures we were introduced too.
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| Passports and tickets |
We took a trip to Russia, India, Japan and China!!!
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| We first went to Russia- the Motherland.... |
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| building the wall of china with sugar cubes |
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| Our Wall of China |
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| Making the Koi fish of Japan |
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| Fan from China |
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| Cherry tree art from Japan |
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| Learning about Panda's and endangered animals and Earth Day |
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| Jac made 3 Panda's |
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| Some music and art from Japan |
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| Musical instruments in China |
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| Origami art |
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| Making clay pots |
Then we were off to Oceania, visiting Australia and New Zealand
Our last stop was Antarctica and its penguins
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| little penguins |
Here are some pictures of the kids' work in Geography and Science
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| Excavating a dinosaur |
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| And here he is. |
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| We made some penquins |
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| Jac learned about Asteroids |
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| This is Jac's Coral Reef |
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| and his volcano |
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| Neo-Rie made an Island |
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| This the book Jac was working on |
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| Making and edible Mars Rover |
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| This was Neo-Rie's Science for the year |
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| Zane's work for th year was from this book |
Some lapbooks and worksheets on natural science.
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| The ant - Jac's work |
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| Jac also worked on the snail. He had one as a pet for a while |
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| Jac's work on the horses lapbook |
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| he drew the Mountain to Coral reef levels |
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| We learned about animals in Australia |
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| and in New Zealand |
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| Neo-Rie's work on the ant |
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| and horses |
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| and Marsupials |
For English we did the Learning Language Art through Literature books.
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| Jacc did My Father's Wold First grade English |
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| And we used Handwriting without Tears |
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| Neo-Rie started Cursive writing |
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| Neo-Rie's Workbook |
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| Some of the books she did for English |
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| Zane's books for English |
For Afrikaans we worked on Platinum for Zane
Neo-Rie's Afrikaans
Jac did this for Afrikaans this year
For Maths they worked on Singapore Maths. We switched math programs so we are still trying to get on grade level here.
For Bible and virtues we worked on the following books and off course the Bible.
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| John the Baptist |
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| Moses in his tent |
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| Pharaoh's color |
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| The 10 plagues |
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| The red sea |
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| The first passover |
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| A wife for Isaac |
So this was it in a nutshell - we worked through more books but I can't put all of them here.
Our year is done... finally
