Living Without School: This morning's activities....

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

This morning's activities....

Chocolate Maths - graphing Smarties. Practical statistics?

Solving a crime - maths from the DVD/TV series Numbers, using the free online curriculum from Texas Instruments. Thomas and Gerry finding the circumcentre.

The tomatosphere project - planting our seeds, setting up prediction statements and observation journals.

Oh, and getting ready for our Board of Studies visit this afternoon. A representative from the Board of Studies visited to discuss our programme and to complete the state's homeschool registration ( homeschool legalities).

We had an interesting visit - the BOS guy just left. Lots of chatting and talking about science fiction, Stargate, Latin, the Church, politics...you name it.

And we have our registration for the next two years.

5 comments:

Cindy said...: You are motivating me! sounds fun!; 2:26 am
Ladybug Mommy Maria said...: Very cool!; 4:36 am
Leonie said...: Cindy - this was the chocolate maths from the unit study - of course, the kids ate the Smarties after ( and passed them onto the BOS visitor, too). And we are enjoying the Numbers DVD, too.

Maria, have you and Cindy started the tomatosphere project yet?; 8:33 am
Anonymous said...: Hi Leonie - I tried posting yesterday, but blogger was being snooty ;-) What a busy learning environment - I loved seeing all the dc's projects :-) My dd saw your blog a while back and said a chocolate study is definitely on her planning list! Phew - I'm glad you're just starting the TS project - I was set to go a few weeks ago and then the dog ate the peat pots and I totally dropped it :-(

We watched the Num3ers about baseball last night - pretty interesting! I haven't done any of the math yet, though. Maybe I'll just do it for me....; 4:59 am
Leonie said...: The chocolate study has been fun!

And so far we have only done the one Maths activity from Numbers - but iwas interesting, no need to ask someone to do it, they were motivated after seeing the episode.; 8:32 am

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