August Wrap Up

August is an exciting time seeing the return of the sunshine in our part of the world!

Our Home education life has been quite full again this month. So we certainly have the challenge of refining our choices around events, come Spring!

Here’s our top pics from the month & a wrap up of all resources used and activities we took part in.

Listen to this month’s Podcast Episode 40!

Excursions:

Our Local Homeschooling Collective ~ Dindi Wild + Free Co gathered in the woods for a fun day out learning all about Fire Starting & Safety in the wilderness.

This was a lot of fun for all of us. The children got to play games, climb trees and start a fire together as a team, cook and share a bbq.

It was lovely to see the team work! We must say it was one of this month’s highlights, along with our weekly homeschool get togethers with friends!

We also had a Wildschooling Waterfalls adventure with our Wild + Free Co on Snake safety ~ which was a blast!

Another event we had was an Award winning Author talk with Vikki Conley at our town hall as well… with the local schools for a read aloud and some puppet play!

Some other outings included:

Going to the Pop up Youth space at the Library

STEAM Club at the Library

Lego club at the Library

Park play

Wetlands, footy ground & rail trail walks with Puppy

For Online learning:

Our girls attended 2 X National Science week Virtual excursions (Ocean trivia & Species survival)

For reading…

Miss 6 Finished reading:

Peter & Jane 8c

Apple Family

& 9 a Peter & Jane reader

&

Starting re reading Amelia Jane Again (chapter book ~ page for page shared reading)

Read aloud: Hour of Olympics (Magic Tree House series book)

Miss 10 read:

2 X Ella at Eden series books, & is

Currently reading:

Diary of Anne Frank

& Jack & Jill

We also Watched short Documentaries on:

Urban Agroecology Urban Homestead documentary

Saint Bernadette, 

Saint Mary MacKillop

Saint Clare

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Saint There’s of Lisiux 

For entertainment, we

Watched:

Nanny MacPhee &

Brady Bunch (little one with fever) 

Mama reads / read alouds: 

I Read: The Good Life Permaculture library book

Read: Maker Wild – Outdoor Projects library book

Saint Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine 

Completed lessons reading in the Catechism (including videos)

Reading Currently:

Dialogue of St Catherine of Sienna

Home ec:

Help cooking & cleaning 

Music:

Guitar & Keyboard

Auslan songs: sing a rainbow @ you are my sunshine 

Weekly Singing (Hymns & other songs from play list).