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thistlebloom
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Wednesdays class was fun. Although my youngest member opted out and didn't come with her siblings. She said it was boring.
I think the real issue is that the older girls don't play with her at free time, they buddy up and play "rodeo" riding their imaginary horses around while eating their popsicles. She's not a horse lover so she hangs out with the boys.
No Big Fat Word, we just did a review of all of the previous words and I was happy at the retention most of them have.
Our topic of study was edible weeds. "Eat Your Weedies!" That went right over their little heads. Only one boy knew what Wheaties were. Ah, the generation gap...
I chose three of my most common edibles for them to to memorize the identification of. Purslane, lambsquarters, and red root pigweed. Then I took them to the back garden where we have weeds aplenty and told them to find and pull each one. I named one at a time for them to search out and bring to me for ID. This was apparently a pretty hilarious exercise for them, it was done with wild laughter and running around. Who knew weed ID could be so entertaining?
We'll review these three each week until they can pick them out 100% of the time.
They also planted @Nyboy 's Dark Star zucchini, (and one of the older boys knew who Henry Hudson was NYboy!).
The girls planted a small patch of Orchard Baby corn. We may not have enough season left for a crop, but they'll at least get to see it sprout and grow.
So far I'm not impressed with the SBG method. The bales temperatures seem to be around 60 degrees, which may be why I'm not seeing much growth occurring. Our daytime temperatures don't get very high overall and the bales aren't collecting much heat from the sunshine. Bummer.
I think the real issue is that the older girls don't play with her at free time, they buddy up and play "rodeo" riding their imaginary horses around while eating their popsicles. She's not a horse lover so she hangs out with the boys.No Big Fat Word, we just did a review of all of the previous words and I was happy at the retention most of them have.
Our topic of study was edible weeds. "Eat Your Weedies!" That went right over their little heads. Only one boy knew what Wheaties were. Ah, the generation gap...
I chose three of my most common edibles for them to to memorize the identification of. Purslane, lambsquarters, and red root pigweed. Then I took them to the back garden where we have weeds aplenty and told them to find and pull each one. I named one at a time for them to search out and bring to me for ID. This was apparently a pretty hilarious exercise for them, it was done with wild laughter and running around. Who knew weed ID could be so entertaining?
We'll review these three each week until they can pick them out 100% of the time.
They also planted @Nyboy 's Dark Star zucchini, (and one of the older boys knew who Henry Hudson was NYboy!).
The girls planted a small patch of Orchard Baby corn. We may not have enough season left for a crop, but they'll at least get to see it sprout and grow.
So far I'm not impressed with the SBG method. The bales temperatures seem to be around 60 degrees, which may be why I'm not seeing much growth occurring. Our daytime temperatures don't get very high overall and the bales aren't collecting much heat from the sunshine. Bummer.
