Zoology

The children have been really excited for this curriculum to arrive. Of course Eden wanted to go straight to the Zoology - land animals which is book 3 but books 1 and 2 are a prerequisite. It was highly recommended by a friend and I'm glad it was. The quality of the book is excellent and the children are really enjoying filling in the journal and the experiments. We look forward to doing the other books in the series too.

We are currently doing Zoology 1

Sorting all the animal toys in the house into Kingdom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species - a study in taxonomy.

Experiments in flight.

Learning about the Bernoulli principle, the upward force created by wing shape that enables a bird(and a plane) to fly.

A page out of their zoology journal.

Cartooning fun

Eden has become interesting in cartooning, so her dad started her off with a few lessons. She then got quite a lot of books out of the library, and specifically enjoys the manga style of cartooning. Her enthusiasm has rubbed off on Niamh and Ciara too, who did a lot of their own cartooning too.
Eden practising.
Eden used some of her dad's art supplies to create the above and below cartoons, the markers really makes a difference in giving it a more professional look.

The manga style has affected a lot of her portraits(which she does on a daily basis), with either sketch or paint.


Two more examples of what she has created with markers and ink.




Ciara's superhero cartoon. Niamh made some really good cartoons, unfortunately she stuck them up in her bedroom so as yet I have not taken photos of them!

Wax resisit

Art Monday has proved to be such a great idea as the children have come up with so many lovely projects. Even if I have not organized something for them to do, they look up in their art books for projects they would like to have a go at. This wax resist turned out really well.
First they drew the picture with wax crayons.
And then they painted over with watered down acrylic.

Niamh was very pleased with how it looked, and thought it looked very much like a pastel picture.

Maths mad!

A lot of people ask how it is possible to school 5 children of different levels at the same time. Although they are all at different levels they pretty much follow the same subjects each day. So they will all do their maths together, and then all do spelling, handwriting, grammar, science etc etc. Most of the time Ciara and Ayla play a lot together, and I am sooo grateful that they love each other's company as much as they do, but often I get to read to the younger two while the others are stuck into their workbooks.

Two little munchkins.
Jude absolutely loves maths, and it is not uncommon for him to do two hours of maths everyday - that is computer work and workbook work combined. It always takes up the majority of his school day.