Confessions of an Erratic Eclectic Homeschooling Mom: Banana Bread, Anasi, Mummies, Art Journaling, and a Trip Around the World -- Learning Log 6 for Foxlover

Friday, May 1, 2015

Banana Bread, Anasi, Mummies, Art Journaling, and a Trip Around the World -- Learning Log 6 for Foxlover

Friday, May 1, 2015

We Baked:

banana bread. We tripled the recipe because we had so many aging bananas to use up.(1-1/2 cups of flour becomes 4-1/2 cups of flour, and so forth) Fox Lover already knows how to halve or double recipes using intuition and basic math.

I used this as an opportunity to show Fox Lover, in a real-life context, how formal addition, subtraction, and multiplication of fractions works. This reminds me a bit of Gleamer's cooking classes. (Cooking, Math: Computation)

We Played:

Impressionist Art Game -- We also read pages 58-65 of the accompanying book; we read about Mary Cassatt. (Art Appreciation)
Telepathy (Deductive Logic, Strategic Thinking)
10 Days in Africa (Geography, Strategic Thinking)
20 Days Around the World several times. (Geography, Strategic Thinking) We love these 10 Days In ... games! Now I've downloaded instructions for a trip around the world.
Prime Pak -- This game reinforces multiplication facts, factoring, prime factoring, and prime and composite numbers. Trisha mastered prime factoring super fast. We are working on multiplication and preparing for algebra simultaneously. (Math: Patterns & Algebra; Computation)
She invented a different version of the dice game Pig which involves practicing multiplication. (Math: Computation)
Stratego (Strategic Thinking)
Ultimate Mastermind (Deductive Logic, Strategic Thinking)

We Read:

Since we just read about the Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt, we read You Wouldn't Want to be an Egyptian Mummy!: Disgusting Things You'd Rather Not Know by David Stewart (History)
First Palm Trees: An Anancy Spiderman Story by James Berry, illustrated by Greg Couch This is part of our discussion of West Africa and cultural variations of Anansi stories. (History; Mythology)
Anansi and the Magic Stick by Eric Kimmel, illustrated by Janet Stevens (History; Mythology)
She and her sister have been reading The Wizard Children of Finn by Mary Tannen. (Literature; Mythology)

Also:

We practiced division and mult-digit mulitplication using base 10 blocks. (Math: Computation)
She has been playing soccer. (Physical Education)
We've been art journaling. These are some of our mandalas and other circle designs. (Art)

This is Fox Lover's. She learned this technique from Alena, who teaches math and art.

These are Fox Lover's too. (The second one isn't finished):

Some of my art journal pages (in progress):

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About Me

Unschooling mom of Movie Buff (age 20), Über-Gamer (16), and Fox Lover (10).

In a former life, I was a professional counselor, working with troubled youth. I am now a freelance writer/editor and online writing coach, teaching middle- and high-school composition. My kids have been learning without school for over 10 years.

Having 2 eclectic learners with vastly different needs and learning styles, it's important to be flexible and choose classes and activities from as many venues as possible. We are fortunate to live in an area with a vibrant homeschooling community -- there are various schools, homeschooling groups, co-ops, and other resources. We are also near the George Washington National Forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway, as well as various locally owned farms, a Shakespeare theater, and plenty of other interesting things.