This week our homeschool group visited a fire safety event at a local fire station. Fireman DJ is ready to rush to your rescue at a moment’s notice. In the meantime, he played with a room full of fire trucks. He also practiced sliding down a fire station pole, but (ahem) he needed some help so no chance for a photo. After a bit of play, Firefighter Melanie did a smelly presentation of how smoke behaves in a house, pointing…
I finally got the courage to bring out the World Map puzzle. DJ loves it! I showed him how to match the puzzle pieces to the control sheet. This will become more important when we get to maps like the US or Asia where there are a lot of little tiny pieces. I’ve also begun teaching him the continent names using the continent song on this youtube video. There are many, many versions of this song but DJ likes this…
Because we were away for vacation most of last week I had expected I wouldn’t have any Montessori activities to write about. But Friday afternoon, DJ surprised me with a whirlwind of work, including more work with the Brown Stair than any other time since he first received it. He started out by taking the Brown Stair off the shelf and building it in order one prism at a time. This is significant because he’s mostly insisted on keeping it…
We’ve been really busy the past week so this is going to be a full post. Many kids are going back to school this week and if DJ were going to go to preschool, he likely would have started sometime this month so I’m starting to feel like our homeschooling is getting to be a bit more “official”. So far we haven’t done any back to school special activities. We still “do school” at DJ’s whim. Whenever he decides to…