Can you believe it’s the first day in February? Each month I think we can’t have more fun than we did last month – and almost every month I’m wrong!
Now there definitely were some not so fun parts of this month for my family. Both kids caught pink eye, my husband had a car accident (with the car being in the shop for almost a month), and I came down with another sinus infection.
But, we were able to do a lot of new things at home, as well as go on some really fun day trips. I love the flexibility and excitement that comes from living this unschooling lifestyle!
Here’s some of what we were up to this month and the resources we used:
Books
Christmas in Camelot (A Magic Treehouse book)
Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve (A Magic Tree house book)
Merlin and the making of the King
Sir Lancelot and the ice castle
Mother Mother I feel Sick, Call for the Doctor Quick Quick Quick
The Secret Life of Math: Discover how (and why) numbers have survived from the cave dwellers to us! This is a really great book with lots of hands-on activities. We just got started on the first part of this book this month.
Sand and Snow
The Man behind the Mask
Frostbite
Moja means one: A Swahili counting book
Science in Ancient Mesopotamia
The spider weaver: a legend of kente cloth
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Arthur and the Black Knight
King Arthur and the Nights of the Round Table (A Great Illustrated Classics Book)
The Village of Round and Square Houses
The Kids Nature Book/365 Days of Activities
DVDs
Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (we watched this after we read the same novel this month)
Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure
The Story of 1 * Everyone should watch this film. It’s a very funny, very informative story about the history of numbers. All ages will enjoy this. If you get Netflix you can watch it instantly. The host, Terry Jones has quite a few other history films, too, you can watch through Netflix.
All 3 of the Lord of the Rings movies
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension
Happily N’Ever After: 2 Snow White
King Arthur and the Nights of Justice (this is an animated series)
Ironman: Armored Adventures (an animated series)
Merlin and the War of the Dragons
Iditarod: The Last Great Race (a 6 episode program from Discovery)
River Monsters (an Animal Planet series)
CDs
King Arthur and his Knights by Jim Weiss
Games
Ramses Return (a Lego game)
An Animal Tracks Matching Game (from The Young Scientists Club Animal Tracks Kit)
Kits
The Young Scientists Club Animal Tracks
4DVision Great White Shark Anatomy Model
Outside Activities
Swimming Lessons
Open Gymnastics at Flying High Gymnastics
Long Grove Confectionary Tour (yea! Free chocolate!)
Shedd Aquarium (Oceanarium show, Wild Reef Exhibit, Animal Habitats Learning Lab and Polar Play Zone)
Snow Days Chicago at Navy Pier (international snow sculpting competition, dog sled races)
Moving my Sister to another house
Sledding & Building a Snowman
Other Activities:
Lots of Angry Birds, PBS.Kids.org, Google Maps (Alexa looks up a country or city in an atlas and then looks it up here), reading Beatrix Potter stories out loud and acting them out (first I act out a story while Alexa reads one, then the kids act out another story together while I read one out loud), making snow ice cream, feeding the birds, hand feeding our pet squirrel, drawing, writing words, lots of pretend play, painting, dictating stories they made up while I type them out.
Can you share one your family’s favorite resource or activity from January?