Texas Wildlife

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It is coming to the end of May. Besides finishing up the worksheet, we attend classes in local science museum along with other homeschoolers.

Building helicopter

I like to buy constructive toys for my boys. Ethan is quick temper person and I would like to train him to be more patience. Building this helicopter of course took a lot of effort out of him. At first, he did not want to do it because it seemed hard to construct. I then encouraged him to do it together with me. Finally, a helicopter is built... .

Observing dirt

Earth Day is a good time to show the boys how to appreciate the earth. From one of the program in PBS channel, I got an idea for the science project. It is easy to do and we just do it from our backyard. That is digging out the dirt and observing it.

Field trip to Houston Natural Science Museum

The museums in Houston always offering good educational program. Thanks to one of the mom from a homeschool group who organizes different kinds of field trip to the museum. This time we joined the other families for this field trip learning about Paleontology. The boys got the chance to see all kinds of fossils and the dino's exhibition.

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A visit to Houston Audobon

Exploring nature is one part of our homeschool curriculum. The Houston Audobon is a great place to explore during spring time.

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Spring Break

This week is the school spring break. I let the boys have a short one week off. They still have some worksheet to do but not as much as regular week.

We went to the Houston Children Museum yesterday. That is a cool fun place for the children. They sure had fun there.

Basically, Ethan did all of his first grade worksheets for past few months. Now, I am giving him some test to see how far he learned so far.

Week 28

Learning about graph:
We record the type of weather for February. Now, is the time to do the graph about it. Ethan has to figure out what kinds of weather occurs last month and how many time per month. Then, he drew a graph out of it.

This is a good learning tool for little kids. Math is everywhere.






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Exploring nature is another way to educate the kids how to appreciate the things surrounding them.

This week, we have two field trip. One is the Houston Arboretum center and another is Sugarland Natural Science Museum. The first one is just by our own and the museum trip is with one of the Homeschool group that we joined recently.

We check out a book from the library --A very hungry caterpillar in Chinese version. After reading the book, the boys made a simple craft of caterpillar and butterfly. Ethan had to write the caterpillar in chinese and he drew quite a cute caterpillar too.