Thinking within The Box...

...well sort of. It's more like thinking about what will go IN the boxes! I still consider us OUT of the box homeschoolers!

Care for a peek at our Friday? We started the day with the lesson on explorers described below. In general I begin with our unit study because it gets everyone started on a level playing field and we have the most energy for maximum fun.

So, here we go...in no particular order.

R8 spent some time reading her silent read which she finished- The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

I-6 spent some time making silly sentences for his reading assignment- it was Friday after all. J3 joined him.

Can you read this one upside down? Gotta love Blogger messing with me again.

Seeing this in a box...

...led to this. Next week he starts learning chords. He's been learning the notes so far. Jars of Clay look out.

E10 started his required silent read Carry On Mr. Bowditch.

We pulled out the Global puzzle. This has launched a great interest in maps and the kids are printing their favorites and coloring them.

Later on this weekend...progress until Dan messed up one corner with is feet.

A little cursive practice for E10. The kids are also working on an adventure tale to be published by the end of the unit. They've done work on the planning part with story webs and E10 wrote his first chapter Friday. I can't wait to read the tale in its entirety. It's going to be a good one if the remaining chapters are as fun as the first one.

Two of J3's boxes. He never got to these so I've left them until Monday.

R8 works on her strawberry pin cushion for a bit each day. This was work she did on Thursday.

R8 finished her poster for her public speaking event on Saturday. She got a blue ribbon in case her fans want to know how things turned out! She has an absolute flair for public speaking- just like her mom!

Everyone did some nature study on raccoons because that was a fun study on the Handbook of Nature Study blog.

They checked out a few web sites and wrote two fun facts about raccoons.

I-6 worked on his raccoon later on in the day and it is official folks. This son of ours is absolutely colorblind. We have suspected for a long time because he mistakes green a lot. He loves the color gray and uses it a lot. He was delighted when I told him to go color his raccoon gray and black. This is what he came back with. I was like, seriously? Then I could tell he was very serious. I googled up the nearest test to find out once and for all.

I used this color blind test and it is pretty plain that I-6 is green color blind. If you follow the link, you'll see that green colored blind people see a 70 in the first sample. He was right on with 70.I mean he blurted it out lickety split and quite emphatically. Of course, the rest of us can't see it. Yikes. He can see red thankfully! Poor guy. There you go Dad. You have some company. And he guesses at green the same way you do! I-6, what color is this milk cap? Green- he says. Then I asked him what another object was that was gray. He answers- green? Then goes- I don't know I'm guessing. Oh my. Genetics. Sigh. It's all my fault.