Homeschool

I have finished my 3rd week of homeschooling Mary and we are having so much fun. I got some wonderful ideas for teaching at the monthly meeting for all the Christian Homeschoolers in the area. The idea of unit study really caught my attention. The concept is that you pick a subject or book and pull all your writing, reading, vocabulary, math, art and social study lessons from it. It makes learning very fun and interesting!  Mary wanted to study the American Indians since she is part Cherokee Indian.  Rich's great grandma was Cherokee and raised on a reservation in Oklahoma.  He belongs to the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkasas and Missouri.  We have been studying were the Indians came from, some of their folk stories, tribal dances, clothing and houses.  We plan on making a trip to our local museum and learning all about the Indians in this area.  We also will be making trips to the library to get informational and story books about the Indians.  Here is a short video of what she has learned so far.

 

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Here is the link to the video: http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=118468144471ee774f58b26&skin_id=601&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

We did art today.  She painted an Indian headdress.  Her inspiration came from the picture above and that daddy belongs to the Western Cherokee Nation.  She says he is the big cheif :)

She also colored a map today that showed where the Cherokee originally lived before they were sent to reservations and the two states that the tribe that daddy belongs is in.