Little Man was feeling better this week. I was still struggling with a cough for half the week. I worked on updating lesson plans so between his daddy and myself we were able to get a pretty decent amount of work accomplished this week. We focused mostly on core content.  Bible:  The Israelites are continuing their conquest of Canaan. Bible Study Guide is proving to be the best option as my previous review stated.   This week Little Man labelled a map of Canaan and studied how the Gibeonites tricked Israel and how Joshua made a deal with them. Additionally I got an idea from my friend Sam at Sam’s…

This week we focused on school. Little Man worked really well. I think my goal of having lesson plans complete at least one full week in advance has helped to find the rhythm again. I don’t know how it happened, my guess would be busy-ness, but somehow I had been trying to put together lesson plans as we go. It was not working out. Little Man works well when given a task list. So I did. I printed out a little weekly calendar with tasks written out. He can see clearly what the expectations are and work at a pace that he is comfortable with. It puts him in the…

This was a good week. Little Man spent the week back at it in the books department.Bible:  In Bible he learned about the water from the rock and the war with the Amalekites. Both he found to be fascinating, and truth be told… So do I. (Exodus 17) Literature:Finished chapter 6 of “The Golden Goblet.” Ranofer discovers just how much he does NOT want to be a stone cutter, finding it to be monotonous, noisy and the other workers far too busy to be friendly. He also has discovered that Gebu is up to something in the middle of the night, sneaking out of the house when he thinks Ranofer is…

If you are a regular reader you already know that we are studying Birds this year. We are studying in Apologia’s Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day. Through some of the extra links that the publisher provides for students via their website. I discovered, The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology’s Project Feeder Watch program. This is a program where regular people, like you and I watch and count the different species of birds that hang out at our feeder through the winter.I registered and for a small fee, I was sent some basic materials which arrived today. I’m very much looking forward to doing this with Little Man. Our feeder…

I love Homeschool Share. It is a free website that offers unit studies, lapbooks and Five in a Row resources. The Homeschool Share team has put together a super great resource for homeschooling families. Can’t find what you are looking for? That’s ok, you can still print off lapbook templates and then use them to make up your own lapbook unit study. Then you can share them on the site for others to use. Through Pinterest I came across this Egypt Lapbook which is perfect for helping me tie together all of the information that I have been filling Little Man’s head with. I’ve been to Homeschool Share so many times. I use…