She did it!

I don't have a picture. Our public pool frowns on taking pictures when the pool is busy. Zoe jumped off of the diving board without any flotation devise today!!! We were so excited! She didn't even look scared. What a brave girl!! I'm so proud of her!

Book Sharing Monday

With Unschooling I think it's good that we have books that incorporate some important subjects. My kids love reading so when they don't want to do lessons we can learn math through this collection of books that we have. I learned of them through a local homeschool forum and knew from the start that they were perfect for our family. I purchased the whole first level right away. For Christmas the kids got the second level (or most of them) from their Grandma. These books are great and have activities you can do at the end re-enforcing the concepts.

The name of the series is "Math Start" and they are written by "Stuart Murphy". Here is his website: http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/.

This book is a favourite for us. It is called "Bug Dance by Stuart J. Murphy". It is about a centipede who is in gym class learning how to dance. He messes up and the other bugs in the class share comments about him dancing. The Caterpillar Coach keeps going over the steps until they get it. The dance sounds fun and there are activities at the end that re-enforce directions. They can make their own dance, draw a map to the park, and play Simon Says saying the directions in the movements.  They also have a short list of other books that share the same math concept.

Homeschool Your Child For Free

Homeschool Your Child For Free by LauraMaery Gold and Joan M. Zielinski is a great book for finding resources to homeschool free or inexpensively. I borrowed this book from our library. It was a miracle they had it since they usually don't have many books I want on the subject of homeschooling. I have checked out many internet links in this book and I'm impressed. We will be using some of these websites in our homeschooling journey. I will likely be borrowing this book again soon.