Picture Post!

Daddy on a rare day off

Rather than buying all the books on the Ambleside Online book list we're using for direction, we've been getting them from the library. We use the (simply fabulous) NB library app to order books at home, and pick them up at the library in one nice tidy stack. This keeps us safe from books with good pictures but bad plots (a serious hazard you face when your kids help choose books)! Clifford, anyone? 

E, adding glitter to her drawing. 

K's leaf to copy was green, but she painted her drawing red.

This week we combined nature study with art. Even baby O joined us, colouring away on his paper w enthusiasm.

Nanny

My leaf

You may be noticing that I love to post pictures from Drawing Monday. It's partly because I love it so much, and partly because math and reading are not nearly so photogenic!  Imagine it with me:
"Here is a photo of K showing which hand is her right hand." "And over here, we have K counting beans. Notice the pinto variety..."
And reading, well, we do our reading after naptime, on the bed. K is usually upside-down or backwards or underneath a pillow.  "And here is a picture of my unmade bed; notice K under the pillow on the left..."

The girls have been sewing a little bit, too. I find it is a very good way to keep them from exploring the sewing box while I do my mending! If I add handicrafts to our curriculum, we'll probably start with something like this.

Winning Nature Saturday

Reading other people blogs about nature studying has been giving me an inferiority complex about the whole affair. All I do is put the kids out into the backyard. I'd like to call it masterly inactivity, but it is more like just regular inactivity.
And then, as we were hiking in Fundy this month, I realized, this qualifies! And we do it all the time! I'm winning!


I did adjust my actions a bit, once I had this revelation. Every time we go, I plan to learn one species from the informational placards on the trails. That way, if my kids ask, I'll be able to say, "Oh, yes. That? It's bladder-wrack. See what happens when you squeeze the pods?"

(Dixon Falls trail)

Just a helpful reminder that my homeschool doesn't have to look like so-and-so's homeschool in order to be properly educational.