Fudge!

I know you've been wondering what holidays we're celebrating today so I'll tell you!  Today is National Running Day and "Yell 'Fudge' at cobras in North America" Day.  Kind of a ridiculous holiday huh?  Aidan's EXCITED. We'll pull up photos of cobras and yell 'fudge!' at them as loud as we can.  I wonder how long I'll last lol.  I'm going to try and sneak in some learning...we'll see if he catches on lol.

Tomorrow's writing prompt is:
We've just learned a lot about feet.  Write a short story about where your feet would go if you couldn't stop them.


Just to clarify, I bought a composition notebook for the writing prompts and to keep the boys from getting overwhelmed they never have to write more than one page (1 side).  They are free to write more if they want, but they never have to.  I'm also going to try and switch it up so they're not always writing essays and such.  Yesterday's prompt was just a list.  Also, to keep the prompts simple, I write them on the top margin with the date on the side so we can have a record.

Anywho, that's the plan.  We'll see how it works out today.

The first day!

Tomorrow is our first "official" day of home learning! We're not going to do much...just really ease into it all.  There's a spelling list and a writing prompt and do you remember the calendar I created with holidays for every day?

This week's spelling words:

1. media
2. medium
3. immediate
4. vibrant
5. chisel
6. chiseled
7. pulse
8. pulsate
9. pulsation
10. ecstasy
11. temporary
12. critical
13. begrudge
14. irritable
15. magnificent
16. contempt

Tomorrow's writing prompt is:
Electricity is a recent discovery.  Think of 12 things to do when there's no power.

Tomorrow's holidays are:

1. National Heimlich Maneuver Day
2. National Go Barefoot Day
3. Say Something Nice Day

Obviously we're going barefoot all (or most of the) day.  On the learning side of things, we're going to learn about the man who created the Heimlich Maneuver and why he did it and for the barefoot day I thought it would be nice to see what different cultures didn't wear shoes...Aidan decided he wanted to learn about feet.  So we're going to learn about the wonders of feet!

Eventually I think I'll post our calendar so you can see all of our holidays and maybe come up with ideas we can use to learn about them!