Posted by Cindy on March 12, 2009
The Slim Goodbody Bodyology Tour came through our area Monday. It was well worth the $6.00 ticket price! I even won a music CD for sharing an awesome muscular ability I have – being able to close one eye completely without closing the other at all. Now, how cool is that??
On Tuesday, our Homeschool 4-H Club had a special speaker who happened to be talking on the topic of nutrition. A perfect fit even if it wasn’t planned! After talking about healthy eating habits, they made some fun little critter snacks out of apples, raisins, pretzels, granola and peanut butter. Yum!
Our group usually gets to help bag take-home snacks for the needy children in our local schools. They always enjoy helping with this task.
Posted by Cindy on November 22, 2006
I think I mentioned in an earlier post that we LOVE the Apologia Elementary Science studies. Since we use the four-year cycle (classical approach) to science and history, this year’s science needed to cover plants, animals and human body. We just finished the Exploring Creation With Botany book, so I decided to change gears and do my own human body unit before Christmas. We’re about two weeks into it and the kids are loving the “change of pace”.
I’m using the human body section from Considering God’s Creation as sort of a spine. I’ll typically read a library book as an intro to the body system we’re talking about, then do some of the activities and Bible reading from Considering God’s Creation. I’ve been supplementing (or even substituting) some of the activities with ideas from a wonderful book called Easy Make and Learn Projects: Human Body from Scholastic. The hands-on projects are really adding to our learning!
From just those two resources, we are creating a GREAT notebook of our studies. (When I can figure out how to resize pictures, I’ll post some!) Another couple of resources I’m using just to add a little here and there are The Human Body -Intermediate Level by Teacher Created Materials and some coloring pages for Caleb from the human body section of the Living Learning Books curriculum.
I really enjoy putting together my own units! With our new little guy due in just about a month, though, I think we’ll stick to Apologia’s Exploring Creation With Zoology II for spring studies. That’s after a nice long ”get to know our baby” break this winter.
Coming soon……Our Christmas Unit
