Wrapping and packing up and planning again

 Some homeschooling initiatve from Jac

Jac making his 3 D city for Wall-E and Eve

I thought the kids would have a day holiday at the most before we needed to start our new year, but they will have a month and a half - We are into week 2 now and it is already too much. They are getting bored.

I have ordered my books for the new year and they will come in and we should be able to start school in Mid November.  This will be a first for me starting school at the end of a year.... it feels funny.

So here as some pictures of what we did the last couple of months.

With Jac we talked about all different kinds of animals, from farm animals to Dinosaurs

Talking about farm animals

In Maths we had to start weighing objects  and adding it up

Trying to make a kg

Jac is also weighing 

Some of the Grade R work we finished with Jac was about animals, transport, holidays, etc. Here are some pictures he made

Water transport

His Fall tree

The cave on the beach

The sun, the beach and the ocean

Safety on the road

Day and Night

Mike Mulligan and his steam shove lapbook

Runnaway bunny and Peter Rabbit lapbooks

Taste buds

Blueberries for Sal lapbook

Goodnight moon lapbook

We also did some nature study that did not include the Solar system - hie hie

Leopard

Dinosaurs and Volcanos (his second favorite thing since the planets)

Sharks

With Neo-Rie we finished her English , also with a couple of lapbooks where Jac joined in.

Blueberries for Sal

Making her own cartoon

Make way for Duckling

Caps for Sale

Some American history

History of Transport ( The little house)

Learning Language Art through Literature

So we came to the end of a year - a very fast passed year that we finished .  I started planning for our next year and will update that soon.

Everything is packed up and stored for a next time - and for record keeping if needed

Neo-Rie's reading chart - Done

We have finished our year!

We have finished our year of homeschooling in a foreign country! Can't believe we made it.  Was hoping to kind of take a short break and then start up again, but I still need to order my books from the USA and I have friends who will bring in it in drips and drabs.  We also have a 4 different groups of guests coming over the next month and a half, so not sure when to start yet.  I think I will do my planning for the coming year during the second week of October.

So it seems the kids will have a holiday after all, a month and a half!  What will they do with themselves.  Reading will be a big part of it, and we can start doing some music and art etc. Things we don't always have time for.  Neo-Rie would love to learn how to sew, so maybe we can do something like that.  And who knows maybe by some miracle we will have Sevgji and start our bonding process with her soon.

So school will resume on the the 16h of November ..... so far!  You never know, it might change again.  I will post the work the kids did these last couple of months soon.

Some of the art the kids made.

Entering our last stretch of homeschooling for the year

I have decided to change my year around. Instead of starting from January to December, I will follow the school schedule in Masedonia, but still keeping my own holidays and not have a three month summer holiday.  So we are pushing to finish our year by the end of September and to start our new school year in the middle of October.  We will have a short break in October when the grandparents come and visit us here.

So we are not doing many fun things right now, just pushing through.

Here are some of the fun things we did:

Shark week!

It was shark week

We made some sharks

We made even more sharks

The shark ate Barbie

The shark was really hungry

We ate the shark

Jac using the Great White shark to catch a fish

We also watched some video's on sharks and Danie was in charge of the dissertation of the shark.  It was a video dissertation.......