Calendar Work and Professor Noggins

 The lovely creator made a fun May calendar activity. She actually has wonderful activities each month of the year, however May will be our first. Please join us by downloading this free four page activity: https://www.treevalleyacademy.com/may-calendar-worksheet/ The pictures may look similar however the activities written on them are different. These snapshots are not duplicates:

These are Barron's calendar worksheets since May I could not get to a printer so I recopied them. I have shared his completed and in progress months:                                            MAY

                                                           JUNE

                                                       JULY

AUGUST

Another great find we came across is Professor Noggins games.  The superhero Lotus from ArtHistoryKids mentioned them in a blog posting from 2016 and we have to thank this truly wonderful content creater for her shared wisdom, she sugests many ways on how to incorporate them into your homeschooling day such as, "It's so easy to use Professor Noggins as your basis for a Unit Study. They pair up perfectly with books for Mini Unit Studies or more in-depth Unit Studies. You can choose one particular set of cards, and then go searching through your home library for books on that subject. Sometimes you may need to pop by the Library and check out a few books too. Then you can just go from there adding any other additional resources like movies, youtube videos, games, hands-on projects, Art, crafts, or visiting somewhere local such as a Park, Museum or Science Center." Source: http://www.epic-childhood.com/2020/01/why-all-homeschoolers-should-own.html 

    Today Barron purchased a really unique game on his PS5 which is called "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" we have decided this is an excellent educaional tool for us because as he interacts with the questions we can then pause the game and research the topics/questions posed to us. Perhaps this is a great way to renew an interest in learning and continue upon our journey in homeschooling. 

As we played today we encountered topics on rattlesnakes and we were able to discover the following information about such animals: 

We also were asked a quesiton regarding who wrote the first novel Dracula in ? We researched further and found that that 

Mona Lisa

 We discovered a beautiful artwork bundle from: https://www.mymegabundles.com/product-page/leonardo-da-vinci-study-pack and we have the best art cards which contain the Mona Lisa purchasable from artist Sara Courtauld: https://www.amazon.ca/Famous-Paintings-Cards-Sarah-Courtauld/dp/1409524086/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TCQZMMJHHM6D&keywords=usborne+art+cards&qid=1682284290&sprefix=usborne+art+cards%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1

Barron is sharing our card and card set with you: 

We also watched a neat video about the Mona Lisa painting by theDr. Binocs Show which revealed the reason why this painting is so famous, it was stolen on the following date:

by a man named Vincenzo Peruggia:

and was missing for 2 years! Some even believed it was the famous painter Pablo Picasso who stole it! 

Fitness Renewal

Barron has connected with his joy of movement again. He is boxing, love the Everlast products for beginner boxers. These are some of our family moments: 

Update Barron got some pretty amazing beginners styrofoam nunchucks on May 4th and these are some fun moments: 

Barron played some homemade bowling: 

Barron, Garnet, and me each got a steps tracker and we gifted Grandma and Ray Two, Barron already used his: 

Our Family Safe Place

 I came across this notion in a hotel room while Barron was an infant. https://www.momendeavors.com/diy-parent-child-communication-journal-prompts/

https://promptlyjournals.com/blogs/workshops/journaling-for-parents-children Bailey Carver

Welcome April Moon Card and our Spring Reading Challenge

 The April Moon card from our shop can be purchased at: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ofbeeandbearshop

We decided we should complete a Spring reading challenge all done electronically since Dad has been travelling many times to the library for us, and we remember how adventerous that can be, so we came across a rather lovely author at Imagination Soup who has created a neat challenge downloadable for free at: https://imaginationsoup.net/reading-challenges-kids/ The author of this didn't create it to be entirely electronical accomplishmemt however we modified it for our needs and it was enjoyable.

We also found a cute little activity about creating a book trailer following these suggestions: https://imaginationsoup.net/how-to-make-your-own-book-trailer-kids/

and some great writing opportunities in the form of contests shared at: https://imaginationsoup.net/writing-contests-kids-ways-get-published/