Mirror Painted Butterflies {Virtual Fridge}

This Week

It's still school holidays for us here in Australia and so Sir N and I have not resumed art class I thought I would share this mirror painting exercise we did last year. This is a super easy craft to do with your children.

Fold a piece of paper in half.  Using an acrylic paint paint a picture on one half.  Re-fold and rub.  Open up to reveal your completed picture.

Featured This Week

Last year I shared about this wonderful book called Finger Print Drawing Book. This weeks feature is from The Mad House.  Jen shares a wonderful tutorial on creating Fingerprint Monster thank you cards.

 


Your Turn
This month's theme/challenge is Doors.  You can read more about it here: January Challenge Doorways

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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Blessings
Chareen

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The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.

Your hosts are

Math, Science and Logic for 2015

Welcome to week two of the Virtual Curriculum Fair 2015.  This weeks topic is Discovering Patterns: Mathematics, Logic, and Science and our hosts for this week are

• Susan @ Homeschooling Hearts & Minds
• Laura @ Day by Day in Our World

"Can I teach 

high school science?

 NO

As your student gets older, 

your role changes from 

teacher to fellow learner."

Dr. Jay L. Wile

Math, Science and Logic tend to be the topics of dread in most home education circles.  I would however like to encourage you to approach them with interest and enthusiasm.  Your children will adopt your attitude as you introduce them to subjects.  These subjects have the ability to become your most inspiring and encouraging ones ever.  Remember you are laying the foundational attitudes towards these subject disciplines in the junior years.  What you sow now you shall reap in the highschool years ...

Our Year Ahead
Math

•  We will play with Pattern Blocks and work our way through Patternables and Pattern Block Cards.
• We shall completeExploring Arithmetic 3 by Rod and Staff before switching over to Teaching Textbooks.
• CalcuLadder 1 and 2 These are part of the Learning Vitamins series.  I love these math drill work packs. 

Scope and Sequence
A little word on  scope and sequence as this is important to consider when changing the math program you are using. Scope refers to the content.  In other words these are the topics covered(A to Z)
Sequence is the order in which the scope is taught (IE the order in which things are covered within the program)
It is important to know this about your math product or you might end up redoing math your child is already familiar with or you might end up skipping a whole lot of important content that your child needs in order to succeed at math.

Logic

• Critical Thinking Activities
• We will be including Critical Thinking games this year. (Block by Block, Rush Hour, Blokus, Lonpos)

Science

For science we will choose books from our very well stocked home library this year and will be working through Exploring Creation with Astronomy from Apologia.  We will be using the Astronomy Junior Notebooking Journal.  Once we have completed this we will begin Exploring Creation with Botany.

For hands on Science we shall continue with Science Activities, Vol. 1 

On this Blog
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• Virtual Curriculum Fair 2014
• Math ... All About Math
• Math is a problem - What now ?
• Math Curriculum
• Squeebles Math App
• Noah's Ark Multiplication
• HexaFlexagon 
• Science - How do you do it?
• Science in High School

Our Reviews
 Math

• UberSmart Math Facts 
•  A+ Interactive MATH by Tutorsoft
• TouchMath
•  Math Rider
• Time 4 Learning

Science

• Science 4 Us
• Time 4 Learning 

Experiments on this blog
This year we are following a delight directed, Charlotte Mason inspired discovery of science.  Here are some of the things we have done so far.  

• Compost in a Bottle
• Making a Volcano
• Alfalfa Sprout Head
• Crystal Growing
• Homemade Flubber
• Crystal Snow Flakes
• Making Animal Footprint Casts Tutorial 

Here are some Science Resources to explore
On Pinterest

•  Science
• Science in the Kitchen
• Cooking with Kids
• High School Biology
• High School Chemistry
• Human Body
• Nature Study
• Space, Stars, Solar
• Biology (YouTube)
• Science (YouTube)

 For Fun
 Krissy from over at Venspired created this fun science graphic.   Take a look and tell me what sort of science you are doing at the moment ?

20 Homeschool Mom's are blogging about Discovering Patterns covering Science, Math and Logic.

• Learning about Patterns in Our World Through Math and Science by Laura @ Day by Day in Our World
• Relaxed Homeschooling: Mathematics in the Early Elementary Years by Brittney @ Mom's Heart
• Using a Bible-Based Math Curriculum by Tauna M @ Proverbial Homemaker
• Playing with Numbers by Sarah @ Delivering Grace
• Unschooling Science by Kristen H. @ Sunrise to Sunset
• Logically Speaking: Math, Science, and Logic for 7th Grade  by Christy @ Unexpected Homeschool
• Numbers and Molecules! by Michele @ Family, Faith and Fridays
• Math and Science in Our Homeschool by Jennifer @ A Glimpse of Our Life
• 5 Math & Logic Resources We Love by Becky @ Milo & Oats
• Giving Your Kids The Right Start With Math by Amy @ One Blessed Mamma
• Math in Our Classical / Charlotte Mason Homeschool by Sharra @ The Homeschool Marm
• Classical STEM by Lisa @ Golden Grasses
• Math, Science and Logic - How do we Tackle Them? by Joelle @ Homeschooling for His Glory
• The Physics of Delight-Directed Learning by Susan @ The Every Day of Education
• Tackling High School Science by Debra @ Footprints in the Butter
• Choosing Math Curriculum for Special Learners by Heather @ Only Passionate Curiosity
• Math for all ages by Denise @ Fullnest
• Middle School Monday - Math With Fred by Kym @ Homeschool Coffee Break
• Learning With Math and Science Resources  by Leah @ As We Walk Along the Road

Your Turn

First Homeschool Mother's Journal for 2015

Since moving to Melbourne the ONE thing I have really struggled with and really miss is having three or four really good second hand bookstores to frequent.  Can you recommend any ?  I did find this list on line Melbourne’s Best Second-hand Bookstores what are your opinions ?

In my life this week…
This week has been good.  I spent a very delightful evening last night redesigning my blog background and creating a new header, and button.  What do you think of the new look ??

For those of you receiving this on RSS here is a screen shot

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• A Little Homeschool Truth From a Veteran Homeschool Mom
• Audio Books for Families over at Homeschool Creations.
• Make Winter Homeschooling Fun
• Learning About The Civil War
• Hands-on Learning about Ancient Egypt
• Homeschooling and Testing
• Bible Based Language Arts
• Relaxed Homeschooling: Language Arts in the Early Elementary Years
• Make Your Own…. Kinetic Sand!
• I'm looking forward to some homeschooling encouragement via the Sonlight blog.  They  are having an all year round Blog Party to celebrate their 25th Anniversary.  So look out for their link up on the 25th of each month.

In our home school this week…

• We went to Melbourne Zoo for the day.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• We've been chauffeuring my husband to work each day as he has injured his back.  Please keep him in your prayers for healing.
• On Tuesday we spent the day at Melbourne Zoo with the Australian Canon Collective.  It was such a lovely day.  The best part was that I got to borrow and use the brand new Canon 7D Mark II camera and the L-series 100-400 mm lens for the day.  Photo's to come 
• Sir N spent the day at a cousins house while we met up with some wonderful new friends from Queensland whom we met through Instagram.  The best part is I discovered this new friend has a blog. A Mother's Faith Hope and Love

My favourite thing this week was…

• Reading this beautiful letter To My Wife: Why I’m Not a Super Dad
• I'm contemplating doing a drawing challenge for myself in January.  I saw this online and thought that looks interesting. Day -1 (or is that Day 0?) Drawing Challenge Begins Tomorrow What are your thoughts ?

 Things I’m working on…

• Virtual Curriculum Fair beginning on the 5th of January.
• Meet some new homeschool friends.  Here are 58 homeschool bloggers to meet.
• Working out what our curriculum will be for 2015.  So far I have settled on our Language Arts.
• On Monday evening I will be sharing our Math, Logic and Science choices.

 On the WWW I’m reading…

• The Goals of Disciplining our Children  by Sally Clarkson
• Visiting soldier can't stay in wife's Central apartment, landlord says well I guess one aught to read the fine print BEFORE signing an agreement.
• After 12/13/14, What Are the Next Fun Dates for Math Lovers? 
• 9 Ways to Make Money While You Homeschool 
• Study: More teens are fleeing from Facebook 
• Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books
• Winter Has Arrived {Week in Review}

 I’m cooking…

• I'm actually experimenting with Trim Healthy Mama recipes.  This year I want to focus on my health and part of that is loosing the extra pounds/kilograms I have gained with my pregnancies and immigrations ...
• I mixed equal quantities of almond meal and Parmesan cheese and coated chicken in it before baking.  This was so tasty I have decided to add it to our weekly menu.

 A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

Blessings
Chareen

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