Mohr Adventures in World Schooling

The world right now is a confusing and scary place.  Our kids have had their schedules completely changed and they can't even depend on home to be a normal place as many parents have had to turn to working from home, declaring certain areas or times to be work zones.  They may suddenly have to have video classes and are may be hearing new words like pandemic.  For those interested in teaching about germs, we have tested two different products. Magic School Bus The World of Germs I grew up with the Magic School Bus, both the show and the books.  Its been fun sharing the Magic School Bus with my kids.  They have many of the books, from bees to the waterworks and we own the complete original series.  The Magic School Bus also has a number of science kits and they are some of my kids favorite kits.  We keep the cards or booklet to repeat the experiments as we like.  My kids loved using the kits to study flight, weather and space.  We have the ...

Objective:   My daughter requested a tour of the ancient world, starting in Greece.  While exploring the ancient world, we wanted to examine some myths, and learn about some of their contributions to science, math and the arts.  I create daily worksheets dealing with the days topic and a daily chore.  My daughter gets five or six questions while my son gets three or four.  I include questions about the activity of the day and if there is room, either math (simple equations or word problems) or language arts questions (like rhyme, syllables, synonyms). Spelling List and Sentence of the Week for K/1st grader : Language Arts lessons include some simple questions about the spelling list, like finding the nouns, making rhymes or counting syllables.  We read and write our sentence of the week every weekday. Greece, stars, triangle, volume, hope, fear, olive, boat, space, horse Athena is wise. Hermes is fast. Ares is mad. Zeus is strong. Iris loves rainbo...