Friday, September 9, 2011

How Things Work

This morning, one of my girls' notebooks had incorrectly cut pages, and she wondered why it was like that. Having just seen a video on how books are made last week, I quickly found it again and watched it with the kids. In the spirit of invention and machinery, we also watched a video on how toilet paper is made. Then, while we were on the topic, I challenged them to each come up with a machine that would clean their rooms for them. Here are the results:








Thursday, September 8, 2011

PE

I was inspired by this post about PE that I Read last week, and we have been doing running and other exercises together since (even my 4-year-old).  I just wanted to share it in case someone else can be encouraged about how easy homeschool PE can be.