Anatomy & Physiology Visuals

So, not everything can be learned in a lap or Combo book. *gasp* Yup I said it...er...wrote it...lol... To help my boys get a better understanding of our subject matter (since we don't use traditional school books) I like to find little video clips or animations on the internet. Since I'm waaaay frugal I prefer them to be free. :-D

Here are some cool anatomy & physiology animations/clips:
http://www.visiblebody.com this is a really cool animation site that allows the student to travel within the body to check out how systems actually work!

You Tube Vids:
Your Circulatory System
Respiration
The Digestive System
The Muscular System
The Nervous System1 / Nervous System 2
The Glucose Song (Nutrition)
The Food Groups Song (fun nutrition)
Cookie Monster's Healthy Food Rap (fun nutrition)
Timon & Pumba Healthy Food Adver (very short but fun)
The New Food Pyramid
Bill Nye The Food Web Song
Skeleton Macarena (great for learning the actual names of the bones)
Bill Nye - Just Wash Your Hands (germs)
Bill Nye on Germs
Bill Nye on Skin
Bill Nye "It's Called Genetics" Song
Bill Nye on Genetics (I just love this show!)

More Human Body Resources

http://www.squidoo.com/humanbodylapbook#module7860626

http://www.dole.com/SuperKids/Educators/LessonsPlans/tabid/745/Default.aspx

http://www.lung.ca/children/pdfs/buddies_book_bw.pdf (a 22 page coloring book on the respiratory system!)

http://www.captain5aday.org/index.html

Dance Mania!

The Wellness center in our neighboring town had a free dance day today. So I took the kids. X-man was a little tired so didn't join in until it was almost over, but (of course) DJ was all over that!!

Mad Hatter Day

Tuesday this past week was Mad Hatter Day, like in Alice in Wonderland. So the kids and I celebrated with a tea party outside wearing hats!

Qua es nos? - Where are we?

Since we're learning Latin this year, I thought it only fair that the kids learn a little about where the language origionated and was used the most. So we're going to be learning about Rome and Greece. We're also learning about their Myths and Deities. Here's some of the plans I have for learning about these fascinating places...

Travel For Kids: Rome
Travel For Kids: Greece
National Geographic Kids: Italy

Books:
Around The World in 80 Tales
If I Were a Kid in Ancient Rome
The Best Book of Ancient Rome

Lapbooking like:
Homeschool Share
Jimmies Ancient Greece
Digging up Ancient Civilizations
Sugar Plumbs Lapbooks

And We'll Listen to Ancient Roman Music like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzy5DYhkUAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV0oA3YUiw8

And we'll watch the BBC's :
Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
As well as the student documentary - Rome: A Look at an Ancient Society

Awww, Good Bye Summer

I was just cleaning up my Facebook pages and was reminded that my boys learned to do much on their own this past summer. They no longer use training wheels on their bikes. They learned to ride scooters and skateboards, and They Learned To Swim!!! Awww they grow so fast!

Death Warmed Over!

Ug. I've been sick with this flu for going on 2 weeks now. Each week is a little different- last week it was upper respiratory (sniffles) this week it's all about the cough apparently. Because I've been so sick, it's difficult to keep on top of the kids' education.....that's why they made workbooks IMO. We don't normally use many workbooks, but I found a few at the dollar store last week, on math and language arts and we've been all about them! So the kids have done reading, spelling and math. We've fallen behind on Science and History. Latin the kids do on their own, so no worries there.

Another friend found this reading website as well: Literactive it's a bit like time4learning, but it's FREE (my favorite word!)

This week:

DJ:

• Geography - hemispheres
• US History/Geography: Connecticut lapbook. Colonization of America
• Economics: Save, Spend, Donate
• Art: Making Halloween costumes
• Music: Piano lessons
• LA Arts: Paragraph writing
• Speling: next list as usual
• Math: Multiplication (5 & 9)
• Notable Person in History: Pasteur
• Science: Anatomy & Physiology

X-man:

• Geography - hemispheres
• US History/Geography: Connecticut lapbook. Colonization of America
• Economics: Save, Spend, Donate
• Art: Making Halloween costumes
• Music: Piano lessons
• LA Arts: Word Families
• Speling: next list as usual
• Math: Addition (sum to 50)
• Notable Person in History: Pasteur
• Science: Anatomy