Math Challenge: Dr. Mike's Pizza Cutting Puzzle
Language Challenge: Tongue Twisters!! Learn and try some new ones, then have the dc try to make up at least one of their own. If you don't know any new ones, or need some inspiration, here's a link.
Art Challenge: Summer Sunsets - Take watercolor paper and have the dc "wash" the entire paper with stripes of wet-on-wet shades of yellow, red, orange, pink, green, purple - the colors of a sunset. While the paper dries, have them draw a house, trees, cityscape, etc. on black construction paper with a pencil. Cut out the scene using the OUTSIDE edges of the drawings only - to create a silhoutte effect. After the paper is dry, glue your foreground scene to the colorful sunset background.
Cooking Challenge: Smoothies - Buy a large container of vanilla or plain yogurt. Add frozen berries, frozen peach slices, frozen banana bits, frozen watermelon or cantaloupe, or any fresh or frozen fruit of your choice. Whirl it all up in the blender until smooth. Blend in some fruit juice if its too thick. Add a little peanut butter or chocolate syrup, if you like. Be creative. Try new flavors!
Make some fun!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Fun School Friday #1
Fun School Friday #1
Art Challenge - Become a shoe fashion designer and design the latest in trendy footwear. It must be colorful, creative, AND wearable. Use art paper, colored pencils, markers, glitter, feathers, whatever. After the shoe has been created, write or narrate a description of what it is, who would wear it and where it would be worn. ABCTeach has a shoe shape book for teaching counting by 2's. The last page of the .pdf file has a few blank shoes on it, for those with younger children who may want a pattern for this activity.
Language Challenge - Chart stories Use dice to determine which squares on each chart to use. For older children, you can specify a page, word or paragraph limit or a time limit. For younger children, they may prefer to draw out their story, or add illustrations to a story you write as they dictate.
Math Challenge - You have $3 to spend at the bead shop. Purple beads cost 25 cents each, blue ones cost 10 cents each, and pink ones cost 5 cents each. Using all three colors of beads, you must create a necklace with a repeating pattern. Can you create a necklace that has mostly blue beads, begins and ends with a pink bead, and uses up all of your bead budget? Show the math problems, and write or draw a description of your finished necklace.
Science Challenge - Got this idea from the Think! blog
Materials:
2 12-inch rulers
3 sheets 8 1/2 x 11 copy/printer paper
5 pennies
2 pieces of tape, each 3 inches long
Directions: Create a free standing tower using ALL of the materials. Set a time limit of 5 or 10 minutes. (NOTE: We don't have enough rulers, so we'll use chopsticks instead.)
Geography Challenge - Print off or make up an alphabet puzzle page. (To make one, simply write each letter of the alphabet down the left-hand side of the paper, one letter per line.) Give child an atlas. Find one place - country, city, county, state, province, lake, mountain, park, river, etc. - that starts with each letter of the alphabet. You can customize this to match your geography studies by only using a map of the location you're focusing on, or by specifying place names have to be rivers, cities, etc.
Make some fun next Friday!
Art Challenge - Become a shoe fashion designer and design the latest in trendy footwear. It must be colorful, creative, AND wearable. Use art paper, colored pencils, markers, glitter, feathers, whatever. After the shoe has been created, write or narrate a description of what it is, who would wear it and where it would be worn. ABCTeach has a shoe shape book for teaching counting by 2's. The last page of the .pdf file has a few blank shoes on it, for those with younger children who may want a pattern for this activity.
Language Challenge - Chart stories Use dice to determine which squares on each chart to use. For older children, you can specify a page, word or paragraph limit or a time limit. For younger children, they may prefer to draw out their story, or add illustrations to a story you write as they dictate.
Math Challenge - You have $3 to spend at the bead shop. Purple beads cost 25 cents each, blue ones cost 10 cents each, and pink ones cost 5 cents each. Using all three colors of beads, you must create a necklace with a repeating pattern. Can you create a necklace that has mostly blue beads, begins and ends with a pink bead, and uses up all of your bead budget? Show the math problems, and write or draw a description of your finished necklace.
Science Challenge - Got this idea from the Think! blog
Materials:
2 12-inch rulers
3 sheets 8 1/2 x 11 copy/printer paper
5 pennies
2 pieces of tape, each 3 inches long
Directions: Create a free standing tower using ALL of the materials. Set a time limit of 5 or 10 minutes. (NOTE: We don't have enough rulers, so we'll use chopsticks instead.)
Geography Challenge - Print off or make up an alphabet puzzle page. (To make one, simply write each letter of the alphabet down the left-hand side of the paper, one letter per line.) Give child an atlas. Find one place - country, city, county, state, province, lake, mountain, park, river, etc. - that starts with each letter of the alphabet. You can customize this to match your geography studies by only using a map of the location you're focusing on, or by specifying place names have to be rivers, cities, etc.
Make some fun next Friday!
Hey Howdy Hello!!
Welcome to Fun School Fridays!!
In an effort to make our homeschooling fresh, fun and less prone to boredom and burnout, a few years ago I decided to put away the books, and ease off the hard-core readin', writin, and 'rithmetic once a week. Fun School Fridays was the result! Every Friday, my dc and I perticipate in fun, usually creative, learning. This blog was created at the request of some FSF fans who wanted a more permanent place for my ideas.
If your homeschool needs a boost, or if you're just a parent tired of hearing "I'm bored" or "Mom, what can we do?" then Fun School Friday is the place to find fun, creative ideas to add some spark to your week or that rainy weekend afternoon.
I take my FSF adventures with my ds Mr. T, and my dd Miss K. Mr. T is currently 8yo and just starting 3rd grade. Miss K is 10 and starting 5th grade. If your dc are younger or older, feel free to modify our FSF ideas to suit their needs, abilities, and your situation.
FSF activities take many forms. Some are for outside, outdoors learning. Some are geared to the kitchen table. Others are best completed on the floor. Some are messy. Some involve cooking. There's art, science, math and language activities, too. You never know where we'll land on a Fun School Friday.
Not all of my ideas are original. I glean resources from websites, books and other homeschoolers. If I know it/have it written down, I'll post a link or citation to the original source. Keep in mind, though, that I don't always have the original source cited in my Mama's Book of Ideas. If you see something that you know is yours, or that you know where it came from and want to let me know, drop me a line, or add a comment to the relevant post.
I plan to post our plans one week ahead, so watch every Friday for next week's activities!
Come along and make some fun!!
In an effort to make our homeschooling fresh, fun and less prone to boredom and burnout, a few years ago I decided to put away the books, and ease off the hard-core readin', writin, and 'rithmetic once a week. Fun School Fridays was the result! Every Friday, my dc and I perticipate in fun, usually creative, learning. This blog was created at the request of some FSF fans who wanted a more permanent place for my ideas.
If your homeschool needs a boost, or if you're just a parent tired of hearing "I'm bored" or "Mom, what can we do?" then Fun School Friday is the place to find fun, creative ideas to add some spark to your week or that rainy weekend afternoon.
I take my FSF adventures with my ds Mr. T, and my dd Miss K. Mr. T is currently 8yo and just starting 3rd grade. Miss K is 10 and starting 5th grade. If your dc are younger or older, feel free to modify our FSF ideas to suit their needs, abilities, and your situation.
FSF activities take many forms. Some are for outside, outdoors learning. Some are geared to the kitchen table. Others are best completed on the floor. Some are messy. Some involve cooking. There's art, science, math and language activities, too. You never know where we'll land on a Fun School Friday.
Not all of my ideas are original. I glean resources from websites, books and other homeschoolers. If I know it/have it written down, I'll post a link or citation to the original source. Keep in mind, though, that I don't always have the original source cited in my Mama's Book of Ideas. If you see something that you know is yours, or that you know where it came from and want to let me know, drop me a line, or add a comment to the relevant post.
I plan to post our plans one week ahead, so watch every Friday for next week's activities!
Come along and make some fun!!
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