Mommy22alyns Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Make paper when we study China Make a volcano Float an egg in salt water :willy_nilly: What have you gotten sick of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Making ziggurats out of sugar cubes. Stained glass windows out of wax paper and crayons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Make paper when we study China Why do you make paper when studying China? Other things you could try are growing silkworms, abacus, cooking Chinese food, using chopsticks, watch dragonboat races or lion dance if you are near a Chinese community, model the Great Wall of China in Minecraft or with Legos. I am sick of Chinese New Year. I feel like we've explored Chinese culture in Australia a million times. Of course, we're supposed to do it AGAIN for 6th grade. I just can't. Today is actually the 3rd day of Chinese New Year (AU timezone). Why do you have to explore Chinese culture so many times? Once in social studies is really enough for K-12 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 We have also eaten Chinese food with chopsticks and a couple of other things. Making paper was in SOTW 1, and then in MFW ECC, and it's back in SOTW 2... NO MORE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaConquest Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Am I terrible homeschooler for not having done a single activity from SOTW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItoLina Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Am I terrible homeschooler for not having done a single activity from SOTW?If you are than I am too, lol.We are 2/3 of the way through SOTW1 and we haven't done anything but read the book and do the map work. Science and art provide enough messes for me for the week. Oh well, my kids haven't complained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hkpiano Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 If you are than I am too, lol. We are 2/3 of the way through SOTW1 and we haven't done anything but read the book and do the map work. Science and art provide enough messes for me for the week. Oh well, my kids haven't complained. We've only done a handful of the activities, and I've been feeling guilty. We do always do the map work and read some of the recommended books... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Not only do I not do many activities for history and Spanish, I don't do all the demonstrations in science. Looks particularly bad since I only have one kid--I'm not even doing it all once. I am so glad that DS and I are on the same page when it comes to the value of crafts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgazer Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 My son despises crafts, so we skipped every.single. last. one. of them in SOTW. He loves to read and do the map work, so we do that. You can keep the crafts - I'd rather have an ice pick jabbed through my temple. We do the cooking, however, which is a hit here. Am I terrible homeschooler for not having done a single activity from SOTW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyGF Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Thanks for reminding me about Silk Worms! I hope to raise them this year. Raising silk worms, making a huge hexagonal patterned bee hive with my friend Jamie, and getting yelled at for crying when someone else got hurt - the three things I remember from Kindergarten. :-) Emily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Am I terrible homeschooler for not having done a single activity from SOTW?Yeah, I don't do anything, either. My kids aren't really crafty, and the effort of doing the activities never seems to equal the educational gain, or even the enjoyment, so we just don't do it. I think the only thing they ever really liked was when we burned down London out on the patio when we did SOTW book 2. But that was easy enough. Color the picture. Throw down a match. London, up in flames. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 We've done 1-2 activities in SOTW, and that's it. My kids are very crafty, and I can be too, but I tend to start things and not finish them. Or not feel like cleaning up after, or not feel like getting everything out in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 We pick & choose activities to do from the SOTW AG. My kids generally love them. I do them with great interest the first time and sometimes subsequent times, if they are picked the next time through the 4 yr rotation with the next group of kids. However, when my kids ask to do something again, not related to a history lesson but just for fun, am I a bad mom for saying they can do it on their own but leave me out of it? That salt/gold running activity thing is great fun for the kids, but rather boring for me. They've asked for it a couple times, but won't do it on their own (timer, two bowls - one with candy, one with pennies, not hard to do). Making peanut butter chocolate kiss blossom cookies for "factory work" = yummy but too much work to set up when it isn't for school. It is so much easier to just make them on my own or with only one kid helping than when everyone wants their own job. :smash: :scared: Yeah, I feel guilty about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Indeed Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Yeah, I don't do anything, either. My kids aren't really crafty, and the effort of doing the activities never seems to equal the educational gain, or even the enjoyment, so we just don't do it. I think the only thing they ever really liked was when we burned down London out on the patio when we did SOTW book 2. But that was easy enough. Color the picture. Throw down a match. London, up in flames. Our favorite was the Guy Foxx (not sure I am spelling his name right, but too lazy to get up and look) where we memorized the poem, made the doll and burned it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 My teens love to revisit some of those activities on their own! They love it. And I get a kick out of watching them shoot off baking soda rockets in our cul-de-sac. Actually I put ds in charge of doing a lot of those projects once it came time for dd to do them. Win-win. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Am I terrible homeschooler for not having done a single activity from SOTW? If you are, then I'm a terrible homeschool mom too! I hate projects! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSinNS Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I hate to say, I've never done a single project from SOTW or any other history book, nor do I intend to. I HATED those things in school, and lived in fear of projects being sent home when the kids were in school. Poor souls always had the most pathetic posters, etc. So when I brought them home, I declared our homeschool a diorama-free homeschool! I so love being in charge ;-}! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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