June Wrap up

In the next couple of days, our youngest has her 6th birthday! As we are off to a Ballet performance in the city tomorrow and have the family over to help celebrate, I wanted to share the monthly wrap up early to make sure I squeeze it in.

Time has been going fast… filled with reading, art, walking, puppy training, music practice and home life. For us, the main thing has been about balance… to maintain good health and functionality.

The Puppy has kept us on our toes, helping us get outside even when it’s not that nice. He has been such great company with so many cuddles!

We’ve spent time with family, gone to local sports events and had friends visiting… so as usual, we’ve been quite occupied this month, in addition to life chores, admin and general upkeep.

One thing I’ve been appreciating is my Homeschooling diary from Inspire My Homeschool! It’s been a great tool to jog down any ideas and notes at random lately!

Aside from this… we have been in the garden a little as the seasons call for it; alongside our renovation which has been a big part of our weeks these last few months!

One thing we’ve been really happy with is our decision to trade our van in for a home! We have kept this event pretty quiet as we are excited to see it all completed in the coming months!

It was a no brainer for us… as we’ve spent so much time travelling over the years that we felt it time to lay down roots and knuckle down on a productive food garden.

We are intentionally laying low and soaking up our family time between the work involved in maintaining our business and restoring a period home.

So… here’s what our home education this month has looked like below.

Until July… happy winter friends!

Reading:

Little city by the lake

Peter & Jane 7 books a, b & c

Spot book

Fitzroy readers

Curriculum readers

Science stories

Story of the world volume 2: Medieval Times

The Merry Adventure of Robin Hood by Howard Pile

Meet Ella – The Three Little Pigs

A Little House of Their Own

Assortment of Library books (mostly art of history based)

Audiobooks:

Famous Kings of the Medieval World

Mr Galliano’s Circus

Who did what

1st Book Club session via zoom on The Wizard of Oz (Scholastic Edition)

Who was Joan of Arc?

Home economics:

◦ Vegetable gardening (seedlings, weeding, mulching, watering, harvesting & pruning herbs)

◦ New Puppy (lots of care, training and responsibility)

◦ Home chores (fold laundry, floors, dishes)

◦ Cooking / food prep- Soups, snacks & breakfasts

Art:

Drawing (Castle for Medieval journal)

Music practice: Keyboard, Learnjng songs & Classical Guitar

New second-hand Music books (practice keyboard songs reading music).

LOTE

Auslan lesson online

Auslan song practice

French book

Latin book

Outings:

Bush walking

Park visits

Footy ground bike laps

Rail trail rides

Library visits

Curriculum:

The Good & the Beautiful

Math, Language Arts, Science

Finished: Miss 5 completed prep Language Arts book

Games:

Monopoly

Foxed

Lego

Movies:

Fairytale a True Story

Princess of Thieves

Heidi

Finally, for my own reading: 

I’ve had a few great books on the go; including: 

The Underground History of American Education

Dumbing Us Down

Homeschool Bravely

Hildegard of Bingen

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

The Imitation of Christ

Mystical Christianity