Shine On My Friends!

Kendall has her best "thinking face" on

Here we are, Day 2 of our homeschool journey.  The excitement is still palpable around the house and I'm enjoying it while it's here as I know there will be days that it will be missing as the days roll on.  I know that we will find our groove and will figure out how to bust through those days.  But for today, I'm enjoying it.  Kendall and I started out the morning with some basic cooking, today we made tomatillo salsa.

We roasted all of the veggies.  Then threw it all in the blender with a little salt and some cumin.

Voila!  Who said cooking has to be complicated?

Once everyone was up and had had breakfast, gotten dressed and made beds we started our day with some gentle yoga.  Kendall lead us in a couple of sun salutations and tree pose.  She had yoga camp a week ago and was glad to share with us what she learned.

tree pose

growing branches!

namaste

Keeping with our theme of "shine and sparkle" we talked about how ancient people incorporated "sparkle" into their cave paintings and used different elements from nature to incorporate a sparkly appearance within their makeup and clothing. Today we focused on Ancient Egypt and why they created make-up, the uses of makeup, the processes of creating it and the chemistry behind it.  We learned that both men and women wore make-up on a daily basis.  We used this as a theme for our morning journaling.

We started with blank canvas panels and colors that were available and popular in Ancient Egypt; gold, green, black/slate/kohl and purple.

Kendall's tree at night

Tyler's River

Tyler's Weeping Willow

After that we moved to our paper journals to continue drawing and to incorporate some writing.

Kendall's page - the image in the center is an aerial view of a pyramid

Kendall chose to do her journaling in a separate book

Tyler decided to write another story about his character 'Robby Rabbit'

I absolutely love their creativity and how they interpret their visions onto the page.  From here we moved onto handwriting practice (print for T and cursive for K) and then spelling words.

For this weeks spelling words I am having both children use the same list.  It will not always be this way.  We've discussed the definition as well as context for these words.  They will study these through next week and have a quiz on spelling, definition and context next Friday!

Today is Friday which in our homeschooling land means PARK DAY!!  It's a wonderful opportunity to get out and see/meet other homeschoolers and to run around and enjoy the gorgeous day!

It was a beautiful day so after we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves outside we came home to finish our academics.  Grammar, math and D.E.A.R. (drop everything and read) time.

teepee reading

I'm finding that it's hard for him to focus when I'm working with Kendall so he keeps noise cancelling headphones in one of his drawers.  This enables him to cut out the ambient noise and focus on his own work.  

*always with a lovey (this makes me smile no matter how old he is)

Once we finished our academics the children burst from the classroom - their brains full and brimming over but still with smiles on their faces anxious to get back to their imaginary play in fairy land!

I adore that they will sit for hours and make up stories and act them out.  They create, act, resolve conflict and come up with some of the most creative story lines I've ever heard.  

That's all for us today!  Happy Friday and Happy Labor Day weekend!  See you all next week!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith