Fun Stuff

Since I have just started this new homeschooling blog, and we've been homeschooling for years, I decided to list off a few of our favourite homeschooling topics & field trips that we have done.

1. ANIMALS
When Jaymi was 2, she LOVED flashcards with animals on them. She loved to name the animals as well as how many there were on each card. (Usually she did this while potty training on the toilet :))

2. HOTELS
Last summer we went to the Delta Victoria Hotel (for an in-town vacation) and it was so much fun! A hotel to a 4-yr-old is a whole new experience!
She learned about:
- ice machine (she even made up her own experiment involving filling 5 glasses with ice and warm & cold water and seeing which ones melted faster)
- steam on mirrors
- float planes landing
- room key
- swimming
- Happy Feet movie
- people-watching
- Johnson St. bridge (the one that lifts)
- bathroom light timer

3. CAR SAFETY
Last summer we also had an unexpected experience that taught Jaymi some new things - a car accident. A guy ran a red light and hit our car. She learned about:
- safety (being buckled in)
- tow trucks
- police/paramedics/fire fighters
- all about a car being fixed
- rules of the road (the importance of them)

4. BIKING
Pedalheads (last summer again) taught Jaymi how to ride a two-wheeler!

5. READING
She participated in the library reading programme this past summer and read a TON of books every day to earn her rewards each week and her medal at the end of the summer.

6. CAMPING
Camp Pringle was a fun experience as well.
- kayaking
- campfires
- making friends
- horshoes
- climbing wall

7. BOATS
Boat Ride (on a friend's whale watching boat)
- seals
- Fisherman's Wharf (feeding seals, seeing houseboats)
- boating & boating safety

8. CONSTRUCTION
- safety signs
- visiting construction site
- tool names

9. HEALTH
- dental health (we made a pretend apple mouth, looked at x-rays, visited the dentist)
- eye health
- food nutrition (food groups, reading ingredients, baking)
- heart health

10. TREES
- deciduous, coniferous
- pretend tree game
- making a presentation about trees
- tree rubbings

11. RECYCLING
- recycling methods
- where do materials come from? (paper/glass/metal/plastic)

12. RAIN FOREST
- who lives there?
- games on rainforestheroes.com - fun!
- what's happening to it?
- how to save it

13. SOLAR SYSTEM

And of course, last year we did one letter per week, when we did the following things that began with that letter:
-ate food
-wrote a word list
-did activities & worksheets
-drew/coloured pictures
-went places
-made a sticker picture
-created a letter (e.g. purple 'p', eggshell 'e', etc.)