We have finished with our year.

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"

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.

Passports and tickets

We took a trip to Russia, India, Japan and China!!!

We first went to Russia- the Motherland....

building the wall of china with sugar cubes

Our Wall of China

Making the Koi fish of Japan

Fan from China

Cherry tree art from Japan

Learning about Panda's and endangered animals and Earth Day

Jac made 3 Panda's

Some music and art from Japan

Musical instruments in China

Origami art

Making clay pots

Then we were off to Oceania, visiting Australia and New Zealand

Our last stop was Antarctica and its penguins

little penguins

Here are some pictures of the kids' work in Geography and Science

Excavating a dinosaur

And here he is.

We made some penquins

Jac learned about Asteroids 

This is Jac's Coral Reef

and his volcano

Neo-Rie made an Island

This the book Jac was working on

Making and edible Mars Rover

This was Neo-Rie's Science for the year

Zane's work for th year was from this book

Some lapbooks and worksheets on natural science.

The ant - Jac's work

Jac also worked on the snail.  He had one as a pet for a while

Jac's work on the horses lapbook

he drew the Mountain to Coral reef levels

We learned about animals in Australia 

and in New Zealand

Neo-Rie's work on the ant

and horses

and Marsupials

For English we did the Learning Language Art through Literature books.

Jacc did My Father's Wold First grade English

And we used Handwriting without Tears

Neo-Rie started Cursive writing

Neo-Rie's Workbook

Some of the books she did for English

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.

John the Baptist 

Moses in his tent

Pharaoh's color

The 10 plagues

The red sea

The first passover

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