how to add hands-on activities

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  • October 11, 2016 at 12:17 pm
    Grace
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    Hello everyone,

    I have been using My father’s world for a few years now.  I am currently using K and 2nd (Adventures).  My kids are enjoying the books and really enjoy the hands on activities.  However, I do not enjoy having to follow a schedule and it can create stress for me.  I also am adding things like hymns, habits, daily Bible copywork to the curriculum and sometimes feel the need to complete an assignment that I really don’t want to do (I know that is my own issue, I could just skip it) but because of all of this I am considering just doing my own planning.  I did follow SCM for a year, but my kids missed the hands-on activities that My father’s world has.  I am not creative and wouldn’t create those activities.  Does anyone have any ideas of how to add more hands-on activities to SCM?  Or has anyone used my father’s world in a more cm way?

    October 11, 2016 at 12:59 pm
    Claire
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    I have no experience with MFW but I did do a lot of hands on things and am kind of missing them now myself.  My kids have gotten older and I guess I thought it was too immature or we didn’t have time for anything hands on.  I’m not sure I’m right about that so here are some ideas I’ve explored from time to time and hope to revisit.

    Foldables!

    Here is just one site with suggestions but note her name and you can find lots of resources free online – http://www.csun.edu/~krowlands/Content/Academic_Resources/Foldables/Basic%20Foldables.pdf

    Science Tools!

    We did tons of these in elementary years and they were awesome, informative and fun – http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/science-projects

    I’m sure you’ll get more/better stuff but these are two that I know we used with success.

     

     

     

     

    October 11, 2016 at 3:20 pm
    HollyS
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    There are plenty of ways to add in more activities.  If you click on the Links & Tips tab on the history guide in the bookstore, it will give you several ideas of history activities.  My DC are good with 1-2 history activities each year…otherwise we get overwhelmed.

    For science, you can easily add in some experiments.  This year we are doing a Thames & Kosmos Physics Workshop kit, and since it’s not scheduled in to our regular science, I don’t feel pressured to get to it each week.  Snap Circuits are  great for younger ones!  Nature study is another easy way to add in some activities.  Put out a bird feeder (or make one), create a garden (container garden, windowsill herb garden, vegetable garden, fairy garden, etc.), go for a hike or go fishing.  There are an unlimited number of fun activities you can use to enjoy science & nature!

    Handicrafts are another more active subject.  My DC love paper sloyd, watercolors, clay sculpting, computer programming, photography, etc.  When you aren’t working through tons of activities from your lesson plans, you have more time to let them choose activities or learn new skills as a family.

    Personally, I find these types of activities less contrived than activities typically scheduled in homeschool curriculum.   To me they seem more “real world” than what I often come across in curriculum.  I’d much rather my DC learn to crochet than make a lapbook or build models of the pyramids.

    We don’t do endless activities and I’m not a great planner either.  However, I do start the year with a few ideas of things I’d like to get to.  We don’t get to all of them, but the ones we get to tend to be very memorable!

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