2012: A Year in Learning

Here's what we did in 2012 in our little Home School.


Classes Taken:
JiuJitsu
Physical Education
Swimming
Theater Arts
Science
Chess Club
Religious Education at Church
Tumbling
Baseball
Gymnastics
Violin and Piano Lessons

Workshops Taken:
Science and Inquiry
Paper Architecture
Chemistry
Zoology: Bees
Physics
Lego Engineering

Camps:
Nature Center Camp
Church Camp
Interfaith Camp
"Play in Spanish" Camp
Video Special Effects Camp

Curriculum Used:
Math U See
Five in a Row
Story of the World
Story Book Art
Beginning Geography
Handwriting Without Tears
Language Lessons for the Very Young
Explode the Code
Sonrisas Spanish School
Exploration Education Physics
Rosetta Stone Spanish
Real Science Odyssey: Earth and Space
Art Lab for Kids
Writing Strands
History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations
Hooked on Spanish

Some of the Books We Used:
Young People's History of US
Before Columbus: 1491

Highlights of the Literature We Read:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Origami Yoda
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Penny from Heaven
The Mad Scientists Club
Anne of Green Gables
Stuart Little
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Cheshire Cheese Cat: a Dicken's of a Tale
Wind in the Willows

Kits and Programs Used:
Big Bag of Science
Typing
Reader Rabbit

Unit Studies Initiated by Me
Women's History
Columbus
Maurice Sendak
Tibet
Charles Dickens

Child-Led Interests Followed:
Origami
Chinchilla Care
Bats
Scribblenauts
Volcanoes
Dinosaurs
Evolution
Writing a short story about zombies
World War I
Minecraft

Performances Attended
ScrapArtsMusic
The Phantom Tollbooth (local Family Theater)
The Mystical Arts of Tibet
Nathalie MacMaster, Celtic Fiddle
Go, Dog, Go (local Family Theater)
The Imperial Acrobats of China
Le Ballet Jazz de Montreal
The Wind in the Willows (local Family Theater)

Projects
performing in Lorax -themed Earth Day Worship Service at Church
Built a chicken-coop
performing in Holiday Variety Show at church
demonstrating in support of marriage equality
doing a food drive and delivering it to the Food Bank
making Halloween costumes

Free-Form Learning
Boardgames
Nature Study
Written Correspondence (notes to Grandparents and so forth)
Goat and Chicken Care
Spanish through bilingual books and DVD's
Gardening
Geography
Cooking and Baking
Sewing and Knitting

FieldTrips
Homeschooler Days at the Great Wolf Lodge
The Zoo
Many Nature Hikes
Camping at the Ocean
Mt. St. Helens
King Tut Exhibit
State Homeschool Convention
Washington History Museum
Chihuly Glass Museum
Art Museum
BeachCombing for Rocks
Mushroom Farm Tour
Salmon creek tour
Pumpkin Patch
"Creative Quest" at Michael's store
Children's Museum
Mazatlan, Mexico
Christmas tree farm

Social
Homeschool Play Group
Game Nights at Church
lots of playdates with friends
Summer playgroup