Learning About The Civil War

I'm a firm believer in learning "evolving" on its own. 

Our study of the Civil War has been a beautiful example of Interest Led Learning. 

Yes, the Civil War is on our history "schedule" this year, but the specifics of studying it are not. I like to leave those specifics up to my children. My job is to provide a variety of resources, field trip opportunities, and inspiration so they can soak in as much about the subject as possible.

This is why I consider myself more of a homeschool GUIDE than a TEACHER. 

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Collage Friday - Sharks, Titanic, & Handel

This week was all about learning.

Get ready.  

This post is full of links for our interest led studies that include lots of lapbooking, notebooking, music, and our favorite resource of the week. 

It was rainy and cold most of the week.  We didn't go anywhere spectacular. 

Most of the week (other than our co-op day) was spent at home, working on lapbooks, notebooks, reading aloud, practicing instruments, and playing games.

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Hands On Math Fun With Tangrams

 We've been studying some geometry lately.   My math child is never content to do anything just like the books says, and when he saw  his Saxon book had an activity sheet with geometric shapes he was running upstairs to get the tangram set from its dusty spot on the bookshelf.  (We haven't used them since last year at this time!)

What followed  was more than an hour of working through the cards in this set.   He methodically went through each one, until he had completed every single card.

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