Spontaneous Goodness

I came back from the bathroom today and found this:

I'm thinking this is one of those times when I "forget" that I'd planned to do some Official Learning and let the spontaneous goodness happen. 

I love homeschooling!

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Ring Around the Rosie

We just finished reading about the Black Death. Our book mentions that historians think Ring Around the Rosie dates to that time, and, that being a favorite game, we had to spend twenty minutes playing.

 

 

 

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Breakfast Drama

I finally decided to act on the fact that cold cereal (especially the Crunch Berries knock-off I prefer) is bad for me. But this has caused some drama.

I have no idea what to make for breakfast 7 days a week kind of drama. 

Eww...

I hate drama. I guess we'll call this growing pains. Anyway, my friends on Facebook helped me out with some ideas, and that's something. Also I found a recipe for these odd little oatmeal bits. Turns out they're nothing to write home about on their own (I'm avoiding sugar for at least a little while, so no chocolate chips this time), but they're pretty satisfying with fresh yogurt. 

You know what's really weird? Plain yogurt tastes pretty good today. That's just odd.

Anyway, here are the ideas I collected for non-cereal breakfasts:

Sushi rice
Steel-cut oatmeal (apparently it freezes well into single-serves)
Whole-wheat blueberry scones
Grits
Dry quick oats with ground flax seed, sliced banana & cinnamon, topped with milk
Overnight oatmeal
Eggs
Brown or white rice with milk, honey, & peanut butter on them, plus fruit
Smoothies
Plain yogurt with fruit and oatmeal
Baked oatmeal
Wheat toast with avocado spread on it. Or fruit. Or with peanut butter on it.

That ought to keep me busy for a while. There's some tasty ideas on there.

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Origami Math

We picked up the book, "Math in Motion," and have been trying out the activities. It starts out pretty simple, but it's amazing the mileage you can get from only a few folds on a square piece of paper.

First, we looked at lines of symmetry with the square. That was pretty easy, since Hero has done that on Kahn Academy before. The we made some rectangle folds and he looked for the lines of symmetry on the new rectangles. That was kind of fun, because I got to help him discover that the diagonal on the rectangle is not symmetrical like it is on a square. We did another page of diagonal folds, and looked at the shapes and symmetry there.  Then we turned them into a waterbomb base, and from there into a waterbomb.



Unfolding the waterbomb showed us some pretty awesome geometry. It's a great way to throw in some extra concepts and keep the perception of math as fun. I like both those things quite a lot.



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