Week 2!

[conuly]

Well, we all overslept. The girls overslept because they stayed up late. *I* overslept because Ana snuck into my room in the middle of the night and stole my phone, aka "my alarm clock".

Still, despite having a 2 hour delayed start, I think we did pretty well. My goal is to add a subject a week. Last week we did math and current events, and we continued that this week while adding in world history. Got started with a bang, the big bang, we went to the park and drew a huge timeline with 12 billion years ago waaaaaaay back there and all of human history crammed in waaaaaay at the other end.

So they really grasped the point there, and then we spent a pleasant half hour making chalk drawings on the ground. NOT what I planned, but, uh, it's art. Which they wanted to do and I wasn't even sure how we were going to do it anyway. So win! Eva drew a girl with a head remarkably like an onion, but that was a coincidence.

We were going to make dirt using oreos and chocolate pudding, but the pudding never set and I had to redo it, and anyway all the dirt recipes call for cream cheese, so we just ate the oreos and pudding and gummy worms separately after lunch. The recipe went over much better with the humans than Ana's yesterday recipe, tuna cupcakes. However, in her defense, the cats went wild for tuna cupcakes.

Comments

[killing_rose]

I'd recommend watching Cosmos with the kids if you can--it's *fantastic*.

[conuly]

I ought to! Is it on Netflix, do you know?

[killing_rose]

Yes, it is!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

ROFL, tuna cupcakes - when Lee was in the 'experimental cooking' phase, she made tunafish tarts once, which were probably pretty similar, but without the cup. Not horrible, but... eh.

Good curriculum so far! I love the timeline! I'll bet your library has The Cartoon History of the Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cartoon_History_of_the_Universe), a great book to leave in the bathroom.

Love the art too - you could make it more fine-arty by getting some library books on How To Draw and talking about perspective, etc. Have they ever seen three-D sidewalk chalk art (https://www.google.com/search?q=three-d+sidewalk+chalk&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=NxcOVMPaI9LeoATWx4GQCA&ved=0CFUQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=643)? I'll bet there's some math to how it's done.

Why should it be a "delayed morning" when you start later, if they don't have to get out the door to school? One of the wonderful things about homeschooling is setting your own schedule. At their age they need ten hours of sleep per night, so they need to be in their beds eleven hours before you want them up (to allow time for reading, etc.) - the more you enforce this now, the happier you're all going to be later on

Tonight is the Full Harvest Super-Moon! (http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/harvest-full-moon-rises-tonight-in-supermoon-finale-140908.htm) It's coming up at 6:55 your time; I highly recommend you go somewhere cool to watch it rise , and then you can say you've added science to the curriculum too. Enjoy!

[conuly]

Yes and yes we DO have that book, and yes they DID read it before school started :) I dramatically declared every time I saw it that it was FOR SCHOOL NOT READING and then confiscated it to some easily reachable place. Worked like a charm.

It's a delayed start because I don't want to be working until dark. Period. Also, I feel like if *I* wake up late, I don't have enough momentum to do *anything*, and then the whole day is gone on the ipad. And then the whole WEEK is gone, because I feel like crap for botching up an entire day. We have got to be up in the morning.

Besides, once in a while they're bound to want to play with their friends after school, and to do that they need to be on a similar schedule.