Homeschooling Monthly Memories - Nov 2012

Hmmm, somehow I seem to have missed recording what we did for some of November - but I know we were busy!  My camera is playing up so photos are in short supply. 

Cubs 'Curriculum':

• Billy completed his local history badge.
• One of the dads brought along some frames from his bee hive one night and showed the kids how they extracted the honey.  I'd never seen it done before, so I was equally as interested as they were!  (In truth, maybe more so!)  The kids all got to take home a sample of honey.

Intentional Learning:

Creative Arts

• Drama classes - they've been doing clowning this term.  Some of the exercises I've seen them do involve impromptu acts - for eg they choose a dress up item, create a clown persona around that and then have to be interviewed about their clown character.  Amazing stuff :)
• Billy has also has his keyboard out, teaching himself Jingle Bells and creating music for his videos

HSIE

• Australian history
• We finished reading Daughter of the Regiment by Jackie French
• We read Valley of Gold by Jackie French 
• Billy researched the Gold Rush for his history badge, as well as researching some local history

• He followed the US election.
• He watched lots of Brain Pop movies - I'm not sure what they were all about but I know some were about the American Indians
  

Maths

• He watched Cyberchase episodes
• He played Times Attack and we did more on the times tables from the Awesome Arithmetricks book

Science & Technology

• He's been doing more Java programming in Minecraft
• We watched a BTN Health special - discussing diabetes, vision and how sunscreen works

Italian

• He's continuing Italian lessons - clothing, vegetables and time.

PDHPE

• He's taken part in archery and martial arts
  

As well as plenty of time spent hanging out with friends and family, cooking etc.