A special Christmas tradition we have in our Master’s class is to draw names for one another at the beginning of December. We keep the names a secret. The students spend time getting to know those unique things about each other that will make their gift truly appreciated. This year was such a joy … [Read more…]
Today we met at my house as I wanted to demonstrate how to keep environments diverse so that every child’s personality can find a place. I laid a few board games out in the living room. The Screwball Scramble game was a definite hit with almost everyone! It takes patience and eye/hand coordination. There is … [Read more…]
We are continuing to use DaVinci’s example to heighten our own awareness of our senses. Focusing on sight we drew a picture of the renaissance man by looking at it upside down. This way we could concentrate on re-creating each new line without worrying about our artistic skills. It turns out we had several students … [Read more…]
A pile of blocks is so inviting. They can be fashioned into anything we can imagine. Then we can start over and do it all again. Each child has a different vision in their mind of what the blocks can become. Some of them are able to share their visions and work together to make … [Read more…]
We started with prayer and our mind math. One seven year old told me that she has now memorized all of her two times tables and is working on her threes – all because she didn’t know the answer to our mind math last week. Now that’s motivation AND natural learning! Our six year old … [Read more…]
Our Home School Study Group decided to have a Lego Learning class. This was something that most of the kids had expressed an interest in. Wendy was gracious enough to offer her house and her son was kind enough to share his Legos with everyone! (Quite a sacrifice for sure!) Marshall showed us how he … [Read more…]
Our next few weeks will center around Leonardo Da Vinci and a multitude of activities. Da Vinci is famous for his notebooks. He carried one with him wherever he went and they were full of sketches, quotes, ideas, future plans, costs, observations….etc. Our students have agreed to learn by his example and carry their own … [Read more…]
The most important thing I will do today is vote – because I love my country! I will kneel and thank God, once again, for the privilege of living here – because I am a child of God and He has blessed me immensely. I will put my hand over my heart and pledge … [Read more…]
We’ve been discussing the parable of the Ten Virgins and so we made small lamps similar to what they might have used in the parable. We combined this with our studies of Leonardo DaVinci and made egg tempera paint. Using this we carefully painted our lamps so that we can add our drops of oil … [Read more…]
“If you’re always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be!” (From the Klutz Book website – more about Klutz in a moment!) Today in our Study Group we highlighted projects and talents that the kids have been nurturing at home. This cute guy loves his gun and knows how to … [Read more…]