fun school day

Right now we are reading the book that Nanny McPhee was based on and we all like it. Last night we read that Nurse Matilda (Nanny McPhee in the movie) did fun "lessons" for their school. We read that to learn money, they had to pay for arms and legs. So today we did that. They played a Jeopardy game to review their science and to earn money for their arms and legs. After the Jeopardy they added their money and could buy arms and legs. Arms were $. 49 and legs were $.86 and they could trade with each other. Alex ended up with 4 arms and no legs and Nathan with just 2 legs and no arms. They put their arms inside their shirt or jacket if they had no arms. When they had one leg they had to hop on one leg.



Another game we modified from the book was for math. They are adding 2 digit numbers. Alex had the first 12 problems and Nathan had the next 12 (so they had different answers). I put the answers on little pieces of paper and hid them all over downstairs. After they finished a problem, they'd go looking for the piece of paper with their answer on it. Then they could turn in the answer papers for pieces of chocolate. They really liked that game and asked to do more math at the end of school! Today is President's Day and it just happens that we are learning about the Revolution and George Washington in history. I love history, especially early American history. We sang "Yankee Doodle" and read books. In a book about George Washington it said he learned handwriting by copying a book, so for handwriting they copied a sentence from a book.



This is one of the main reasons we are doing homeschool... I like playing "teacher"!