So after the first few weeks of homeschool, I developed a simpler approach to the whole topic search, etc. I decided to slow down and focus on one letter/phonetic sound a week and use things that Hunter was interested in that started with that letter as our theme. I started this whole new system with something I was sure he'd love - Trains!!!
We made a lapbook for the first time using resources from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/trains_lapbook.php
This site was a great place to start but I found a lot of the books they were using were not available here in New Zealand so I had to improvise a bit. You can tell by our pile of resources we had a great week. We looked at "Telling Time" as our maths concept and Hunter got to punch train tickets to practice saying the time. Of course we'll have to keep revisiting it, but it was a fun way to introduce the topic. We also used a Thomas the Tank Engine Manual to create bar graphs of the number of wheels each of Thomas' friends had. Hunter loves graphs (I heard that was a 'boy' thing). Of course we read a heap of Thomas and Friends books, but we also got a chuckle from "The Caboose Who Got Loose" where we looked for rhyming words. Besides watching Chuggington dvds, the highlight of the week was taking a train trip of our own...
In between swim classes on a Wednesday, we hopped on the train from the Ngaio station - unfortunately I miscalculated the distance and we only had 3 stops - but still - we were on a train folks!!
Once we arrived at the 'terminal station' we walked across the street for a little treat (lots of "t" action here) from that place that starts with a Mc. I love that when we go here I can still get away with getting one happy meal between them because Helena can't eat cheese or dairy and Hunter's not interested really in the french fries quite like her - so he can eat the cheeseburger, she gets the fries, and I get a drink... pretty cheap date, eh! After only an hour or less, we hopped back on the train with our books, etc and trekked back to our car in the rain.
Oh and our biblical principle was....
Thankfulness
"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love endures forever."
Psalm 107:11
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