Desert lapbook & other homeschooling oddities

Last week Hayes said she wanted to learn about deserts so I had to strike while the iron was hot! We started a quick desert unit study by reading about desert biomes from an old Ecology textbook, the Usborne Encyclopedia and Under the Sky books. With all her information in her noggin, she constructed a desert lapbook complete with climate and animal habitat information then began work on a desert diorama.

The diorama has a kangaroo rat being eaten by a rattlesnake then there's a camel next to an oasis.

Cool.
Earlier I'd worked with Chooj on color sorting. I've been collecting bottle caps for weeks now and so he sorted them into small containers.

He kept telling me,"No pictures!" I guess creative genuis can't be captured on film.

Over the weekend, Hayes caught three crawfish in the creek and brought them inside to hang out in a jar for awhile.

As with all good homeschooling, sometimes it just calls for doing school in your jammies

and learning colors and right and left discrimination by playing a good old game of Twister.