1/6/2011 update #1

Here are the kids doing their oral presentation on some of the animals in Australia. They did about ten minutes each, but we only filmed their favorite animal.

They drew the continent, read about each animal learning about their habitats, characteristics, eating habits, breeding habits and other interesting facts (four animals each), put sticks representing the animals' different habitat ranges, wrote a page for each animal, drew the animal, and then did the presentation. They had a lot of fun with this project and will be choosing another continent to do more animals soon.

For some reason Will's presentation wouldn't download to attach.

A new pet in the house

We can turn just about anything into a homeschool project.
The kids were given a dwarf hamster from their great grandma last weekend. They've really enjoyed taking care of him, learning about him, and yeah.... writing about him. Luckily they didn't need much prodding to make a giant book about their new hamster Cuddles. They even put in an index. Way more fun then writing about something boring!