Joyful Moments: Oh, the Llamas and Alpacas

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at Little Homeschool Blessings.

This week we've found joy here...

 

 What brings joy to you and yours? We’d be honored to share in it.

Joyful Moments are at the heart of our homeschool.

We'd love to see the Joyful Moments in your home. Whether you homeschool or not, feel free to join in every Thursday! Then visit the other links and see Joyful Moments from other places! Just add our button and link up in the comments.

Branches of Government and Becoming an Activist

For our study of the branches of government, we've watched School House Rock's Three Ring Government.



Then we found our local officials and put them on our paper in the appropriate places for our state.


We then got the addresses of our representatives in the state senate, the state house of representatives, and the Governor.

Then we sent out Ceesa's letters about the Indian Mounds.

Wishing you homeschool blessings,
Bethany

Folk Song: Gypsy Rover & Some History

Our folk song for the term is Gypsy Rover.





Gypsy Rover is either an Irish or Scottish folk song and is essentially about a lady of noble birth falling in love with a man of Rom (gypsy) descent. The lady leaves the father in secret and the father comes after them. When the father catches up to them, he finds that the Rom man is king of all the lands.

The name gypsy came from the belief that the Rom people were from Egypt, but it has since been proven that the "gypsies" came from India. 

Wishing you homeschool blessings,
Bethany

Joyful Moments: Game and Dessert

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This week we've found joy here...

We found the printable for the grid game
at Math Wire

 What brings joy to you and yours? We’d be honored to share in it.

Joyful Moments are at the heart of our homeschool.

We'd love to see the Joyful Moments in your home. Whether you homeschool or not, feel free to join in every Thursday! Then visit the other links and see Joyful Moments from other places! Just add our button and link up in the comments.

On Our Water Color Experiment

We found a great experiment.

To do the experiment,

you need:

 3 jars or glasses,

food coloring,

water,

and

2 paper towels.

Put water into 2 of the jars at the same height.

Then about half of that amount in the last jar.

Leave the jar with half the amount without any food coloring.

Put 2 separate colors in the other two glasses. Primary only.

Role the paper towels and put one end into each color and

the other end into the glass with less water and no dye.

The water will follow the paper towels into the glass.

The clear glass will change to the color that the

two primary colors would mix as and all the glasses will

be about equal in height by the end of the experiment.

We started our project in the evening

 and let it stand overnight.

Wishing you homeschool blessings,

Bethany

Composer: Claude Debussy

This term, we are studying Claude Debussy.

Source

Here are the resources we are going to use:

• Classics for Kids
• dso Kids
• Piano Lessons for Kids
• Grooveshark Play List

Wishing you homeschool blessings,

Bethany

For the first week of school

What a great first week we had...

First Day Pictures

Math Play

Pumpkin Chalk Pastels

Spider and Web Studies

Leaf Tracings

Leaf Rubbings

Felt Work

Jeans Roads

More Spiders

Moths

Water Play

Deck School

Color Water Experiment

Butterfly Watching

Mushroom Fairy Rings (there were 2)

Indian Mounds

More details coming soon!

Wishing you homeschool blessings,

Bethany