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Quote of the Day

Posted in Homeschool, Schedule, quotes on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

My friend and I were just talking via IM and she thought the comment I made was funny, so I figured I would post it here.
We were talking about our crazy fall schedules and fitting ’school’ in among our outside activities and commitments such as teaching classes and taking the kids to lessons/activities.
Friend: I guess [...]

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Resourcefulness:Inventions/ Simple Machines/ Energy/Electricity–Week 5

Posted in Children, Homeschool, KONOS on July 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We covered Electricity and Benjamin Franklin this week. This is week 5 of 6 of this unit. It was another exciting week of co-op learning activities!
Unit: Resourcefulness
Sub-Unit: Inventions/Energy/Electricity
Focus: Electricity, Ben Franklin
Week: 5 of 6
Bible: Job 38:35, Psalms 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13
Books: Benjamin Franklin by D’Aulaire
How Things Work (parts on electricity–love those mammoths!)
Helpful sites:
coloring pages: about.com–Ben Franklin
links: [...]

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Resourcefulness:Inventions/ Simple Machines/ Energy/Electricity–Week 4

Posted in Children, Homeschool, KONOS on July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here is what we covered for week 4 of 6 of our unit. We have all been really enjoying this unit! The kids really like being able to co-op with another family and it makes it fun to do many of the activities with more kids to participate.
Unit: Resourcefulness
Sub-Unit: Inventions/Energy/Electricity
Focus: Energy
Bible: Col. 1:16, 17; 44(p72) [...]

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Resourcefulness:Inventions/ Simple Machines/ Energy/Electricity–Week 3

Posted in Homeschool, KONOS on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here is what we covered this week. I adjusted things a bit from my original plans because of our schedule. We mainly just did our KONOS study during our two KONOS co-op days this week.
Unit: Resourcefulness
Sub-Unit: Inventions/Energy/Electricity
Week: 3 of 6
Focus: Simple Machines
Bible: Genesis 1:28
Books: Pioneers of Science-Archimedes
The Way Things Work
Experiments with Simple Machines
Wheels, Pulleys
Daily:
Bible [...]

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Resourcefulness:Inventions/ Simple Machines/ Energy/Electricity–Week 2

Posted in Homeschool, KONOS on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We have been working on week 2 of our Inventions unit. It has been a lot of fun! The kids have been learning so much and having fun doing it!
Just a disclaimer: I don’t normally plan this many activities in one day! But because we are in summer mode, we go lighter on “basics” and [...]

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