Today we had co-op like we usually do on Thursdays. Today’s theme was Texas Animals. We had a great time. There was a presentation on Texas wildlife symbols. For those who want to reference it or anyone who wasn’t there, …
One of the most anticipated events in the Homeschool Pool household was the release of Disney/Pixar’s latest offering, Brave. Brave is an animated feature about a young girl who is coming into her own and dealing with the pressures …
At Homeschool Pool we are starting a new chapter in science – weather. The reason for this was because we were anticipating the opening of the IMAX film Tornado Alley and it fit in nicely with some prior lessons as …
Today Homeschool Pool added a home school government lesson. Getting ready for President’s Day we are focusing a bit on this area. Today’s upload was a history and explanation of the Pledge of Allegiance. This is designed for younger home …
Today the Homeschool Pool group went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science where we got to enjoy the Civil War exhibit. One of the amazing parts of it, in addition to learning a lot, was that they had both …
Hello everyone in home school world! We have ASL (American Sign Language) and home school geography from our geography curriculum today. We use Spectrum Geography for 3rd grade (the earliest it starts). See the textbook to the left for …
Today we continued our GeoBee type study for home school geography. We use Spectrum Geography – Communities for 3rd grade as our home school geography textbook. However, we only use that every other week. On alternate weeks our home …
Today was Spectrum Geography lessons for Tadpole in her weekly home school geography lessons. Today we worked out of the Spectrum Geography book for Grade 3 – Communities. We are on Lesson 4, What Makes a Community. Today’s home school …
Today we did the first of our Geography Bee questions for home school geography lessons today. The goal for these is to think of areas that are concentrated on with Geo Bee. We found that the memorization of the states …
Before we started working on National Geographic Geo Bee near the end of 2011 we started using Spectrum Geography for Grade 3 – Communities. So, we were not too far into it before switching gears to Geo Bee. Now for …
We inundated everyone in the month of December with home school geography and not much else only because Tadpole was studying for the National Geographic Geo Bee. For those of you who were keeping track, she placed 2nd in …
This morning we started with an extra special breakfast. While nutrition, especially breakfast, is an important part of our home, today we took particular care to ensure she had a healthy breakfast to sustain her for awhile. Plus, we knew …
Tadpole is getting pretty excited about the National Geographic GeoBee tomorrow. We again did not do much aside from reviewing what she already knows. At this point she knows what she knows and we are likely not going to turn …
The National Geographic Geo Bee is only a few days away for homeschool families. From here we stopped doing any new material and instead did a vast review of all the information that has been crammed into the little Tadpole’s …
It is the beginning of the year and we are counting down to the National Geographic Geo Bee. Study continues but with much less depth. We are actually doing a bit of a cram session for home school geography with …
We are not doing a lot of home school geography today because we are busy getting ready for New Year’s Eve. Instead we will go through the questions and answers to the National Geographic Geo Bee over the next couple …
It is home school geography break time with only daily questions and answers from the National Geographic GeoBee quiz site. Here are the questions and answers we studied today in homeschool:
More home school geography questions. If you are just coming in, make sure to check out the more detailed previous posts starting at the end of November. Right now we are on the fast track to get to Geo Bee …
