Hayes has set her goals of wanting to learn more about horses and donkeys, cursive writing, cooking, the Bible and more history. She also wants to learn to sew. I told her I'd like to do a series this year on the body and include more art. Our tri-state homeschool group has an entire year devoted to science, which I'm really excited about. There are twice monthly experiments scheduled. What a great group of moms!
I got the 3rd grade BrainQuest book for weekly worksheets and have divided all my papers and such into subject books for Hayes' basket.

Of course, I plan to continue our weekly Outdoor Nature Hour and using the Handbook of Nature Study.

My "curriculum" is willy-nilly but I've been inspired by "The Well Trained Mind." I'm a super organized person and need that kind of structure; however, my daughter is not organized and doesn't adhere to my structure. Therein lay the joy of homeschooling.
I have promised myself we'll do more games in our homeschooling this year. After a rave review from Kris at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers, I bought the Hank the Cowdog Tornado game. We played it yesterday and it was a good time!

Here's some more of my resource books and games for math, social studies and science:

Then I nabbed this idea after reading a Scholastic Instructor magazine. Story telling cubes! Since we're working on writing, a book report is pure drudgery right now so this is a way to ensure Hayes is reading comprehensively. Cool!

7 comments:
I love it, especially the Nature Hour that is awesome!! :o) Thanks for sharing.
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I love the Hank the Cowdog game! And the story cubes are great!
Thanks for sharing the FUN stuff - my kids might just think I am a cool mom this year :)
I'm participating in the blog hop too! I like your idea of story cubes. I think I'll implement that. :)
I LOVE the story-telling cubes!! That will be my evening project!!
No way!
That looks like so much fun! I love the idea of the cubes.
We use Prof Noggins games here, too, which are a fun way to learn, too.
Thanks for joining in on the NBTS Blog Hop!
We love Hank the Cowdog... I'll have to go check out the game!
I love the idea of playing more games for school. We're trying a bit more of that ourselves this year. Thanks for sharing on the Blog Hop.
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