Our homeschool escapades

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Solar system

Our next project was the Solar system.

Jac really enjoyed this part of homeschooling since this is his favorite topic in the world right now.

I was on a course for a little bit more than a month, so hubby did most of the "formal" homeschooling and I just did the lapbooks with the kids

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Well we moved to Thabazimbi to help open a special needs school here. I was hoping to still homeschool the children during this phase in our lives. But now it seems it will not be possible for us to homeschool and give all our attention to the special needs school and do all the early intervention therapies for Jac at the same time. About 6 months ago we found out our youngest son is autistic and now we have to focus on him for a while.

I will be placing my two other children in the mainstream school for now, while we live in Thabazimbi, which will we for about 9-10 more months? We are not 100% sure. I will still do some lapbooks with them during our period here, to keep me focused on homeschooling and having some fun doing it.

Our first one was a Christmas lapbook, will post the pictures soon. The second one we will do is a Rabbit vs Hare one. The reason for this is that we found a small hare outside our door on New years morning and now will care for it. It looks like a Scrub Hare or "Vlakhaas" in Afrikaans.

So here is to the new year 2013 with all its new beginnings for our family.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

The new year

My homeschooling is off to a slow start this year. There are so many things happening in our lives that schooling is not going to look the same as last year. I will basically focus on the 3 R's. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.

We are not going to be at home a lot, traveling, fundraising and then off to Macedonia. There it will be language and cultural learning for all of us. I will post some of the stuff we do this year, but I don't think there will be any lapbooks this year? Maybe one or two I just love making them with the kids

Friday, November 25, 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.