Welcome to Project Homeschool, Week One!!
At our house, paper seems to have a reproductive life! Even before we started school we had piles and piles of photos, drawings, school worksheets, etc. and I was getting pretty overwhelmed with what to keep and how to organize it. UNTIL, I was browsing blogs one day and fell upon the perfect solution. Project Life meets school album. Genius!
So I’m trying to keep a “portfolio” highlighting moments in our schooling, and documenting it Project Life-style. So far, my pages are created digitally, mostly with Project Life templates, and are filled with photos and scans of art projects and worksheets. I’ve set no rules though, so we’ll see how this unravels as we go along.
Here’s a peek at week one.
Our history lessons began with the earliest people. Besides reading the text, we also had a Bible lesson on Adam and Eve, read a silly book Time Warp Trio book (Ryan is now hooked on this series!), and ate a dinner inspired by the common foods of a nomad.
{Journaling: “After reading about Nomads and what these early people ate, we recreated our own “Nomad Dinner.” But thankfully we only had to go as far as the grocery store to hunt and gather our meal ingredients!”}
During science we learned about turtles.
Emmy LOVED drawing line art turtles inspired by Deep Space Sparkle.
Our favorite math lesson was gummy bear graphing.
These pages are definitely just the highlights of our week. I haven’t decided how much should be included. For example, should I do a math or spelling page every week? These could get slightly boring and full of scanned worksheets. And I want to pace myself, so I’m not sure I should stress about including EVERYTHING. What would you do?
Have you made any type of school album for your kids and their work? I’d love some inspiration!
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Oh Pam I love that you are doing this !! I think it was a great overview of the start of school. Perhaps you could do this in depth monthly and stick to a two page layout weekly as I think you might end up feeling overwhelmed by homeschooling and documenting it all PL style… but if it isn’t go crazy
it would be such an awesome printed book by the end of the school year!
I am doing a folder of my little boys first year at school collecting his work and notes that get sent home….and I do PL photo pages of photos of him at school or at events inserted into the pages as well.
Hugs.
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pameladonnis Reply:
September 21st, 2012 at 2:48 am
@libbywilko, Project Life seems so perfect for incorporating bits of school work, and then not feeling guilty about throwing the other stuff away!
I like your ideas and may try just doing a two page spread some weeks…not pressuring myself to go in depth every week. We’ll see how it goes though. It’s kind of good “down time” for me to sit and scrap.
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I saw your link to the history book of The Story of the World. How strongly would you recommend that book? It looks great, but I’d love your input before I buy it. Thanks!
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pameladonnis Reply:
April 17th, 2013 at 9:47 pm
We’ve really loved Story of the World. In fact, I just bought the 2nd book in anticipation of next year.
My 2nd grader especially loves it. My kinder doesn’t always sit still for the readings, but enjoys the coloring pages, activities, and literature readings we typically do along with the historical reading (we have the coordinating Story of the World activity book). So, yes, I guess I would strongly recommend it. lol I’m pretty picky about curriculum, and was never really interested in learning about history (ducks head), but this is one I’m loving (teaching and learning).
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