homeschool--cultural geography D40

Week D40
Topic Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_centralafrrep.html
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_cameroon.html
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_gabon.html
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_congo.html

Pictures from Mom

Mom always takes better pictures than I do, so here are some she just gave me from our trip a couple weekends ago. They include the boys doing "tricks" on their bikes, and me and sis before (with coats) and after (without) hiking.

homeschool-- D39

Freebie week, good time to review or continue some of the topics we've done. We're still covering people from the 40s-60s, it was such an action packed era. DK's Junior Chronicle of the 20th Century gives a good overview. Childhood of Famous Americans has a good book on FDR that has kept even my 7 yo interested.

Ahhhh, autumn

Such a nice day, rained all night and morning, then the sun came out. Dd and I went on a walk this evening, pushing the baby I watch in a stroller. Went down to the road, the pavement was wet, the smell of pine filled our lungs, changing leaves were rustling to the ground, and the air was cool but the sun was warm in our faces. Perfect. We found some wild red plums, ate some and picked a bunch to freeze for smoothies, snacked on elderberries, then picked some wild apples for apple crisp. Gotta have apple something on the first day of fall.

The weekend was nice, too. Hubby got back from bow hunting camp, then Friday night he took the youngest three to a daddy-kid campout, so the teens and I invited our own friends over, we had pizza and movies and stayed up late. Saturday I froze corn from the garden, didn't expect to get any since the plants only grew to between three and five feet in height, but they all produced.

County Fair

High fives on the Dragon coaster.

Trying to do tricks on the horses on the carousel.

A friend.


Cooling off in the shade with friends and cousins.

Homeschool--history D38

Week D38
Topic 50s and 60s

This is a good topic have the kids present creatively, a collage poster, computer slideshow, etc. Check out biographies or magazine articles on some of the main people of the era (Mao, Stalin, Truman, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.). You could even assign them to interview someone (grandparents?) who remembers this time period.

Some starter sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s, http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1950s.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Stories/Narratives/012story.html

Homeschool--science D37

Ooops, just realized I forgot last week's post, here is the topic and some of the sites I used with the kids:

Week D37
Topic human bones, teeth, skin, muscles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQedanwEfHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UBrYj_2h0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfo75XUnRIU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft2SVyEs2SY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqQa934KqCM

Family visit and Water again, Yay!

Sunday morning our pump went out, so no water to get ready for church. Luckily that evening I had already planned to head south to visit my sis (Beck, a.k.a. Reba--I'm the only one allowed to call her that) and her family. My bro Aaron was there, too.

The scenery along the way was spectacular.

This was my sole travel companion, the rest of the kiddos had already gone down with my parents a couple of days earlier.

Tried and tried to get this niece to do her dimply grin for the camera, this was the best I could get. Still very cute.

We went on a bike ride, and half way through split up so the girls (me, sis, mom) could take the stroller and the bike pulling little ones the "easier" way back while dad and her hubby took the older kids. Our route turned out to be mostly straight up-hill. Sis and I traded off burning out our thighs pedalling (pushing when it got too steep) the extra weight.

All our hard work tired out these two nieces, but my nephew was having too much fun to sleep.

Sis, Mom, and one of the nieces.

Reba again.

Came home to no water still, made me grouchy, but hubby was a hero and stayed home this morning, pulled the pump and fixed it. Happy ending!

homeschool--cultural geography D36

Week D36
Topic Israel and Egypt

http://www.3disrael.com/jerusalem/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVvMJdvEX8&NR=1
http://www.jerusalemshots.com/cat_en9.html

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_egypt.html
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/children.htm