November of last year I started working PT and my schedule since then has been even more hectic than before. But on the positive side I want to continue sharing my experience and let Moms out there now that it is possible to work and still be able to homeschool.
I feel that Little V by no means lost on the quality of her schooling, I just need to be more organized and time management is a must to work on and develop. We still have lots of fun while schooling and I can't believe she's on her final weeks of first grade, it feels like it was yesterday when we went outside to take our first day of school traditional picture.
For several weeks she was learning about the Human Body, we purchased a microscope. I do like the one we got her, very affordable and I think it will do its job for the years to come.
She got to see how one of her own hair looks in the microscope lens.
We also did for those weeks, while studying about the Human Body, an experiment to observe the patterns of finger prints. She rubbed the sharpened end of a pencil on a sheet of paper (top left picture), then she rubbed each finger tip on the paper (bottom left picture). Next, she applied a piece of clear tape on the dark spot of the finger tip and transferred the tape to the paper and wrote down which finger that piece of tape belonged to.
This helped her to learn that each person has an unique finger print and that these personal signatures form at five months before birth and they never change.
If you are interested, you can find this science experiment and many more that we used at Janice VanCleave's Biology for Every Kid - 101 easy experiments that really work.
For Arts, she was learning about Paul Cezzane and here you can see her working on an inspired still life piece from Cezzane, She used fake fruits and vegetables from her kitchen and used watercolor paint on watercolor paper.
Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Vanessa Z. Pawlicki
