Drawing a beetle with colored pencils from ArtyFactory.com
(beetle by Zoo at right)
My New Insect from Let's Talk About Insects (interactive)
Extreme Weather Condidtions in Durham Region
14 years ago
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Welcome to our virtual home school! Heavy on nature and literature and light on all the boring stuff...
I play ROBLOX! as YouTubes at this friendly creative hangout I found
This is our homeschooling world
Zoo is a ten-year-old boy in Toronto, who is fully bilingual (French), has a gifted identification, and fatigues more quickly than his peers (hence homeschooling as the only happy option at this time). My posts are not lesson plans specifically, but do contain ideas on how to tackle a unit and links to excellent resources. We place high value on incidental and inquiry-based learning and try hard to harness their power through our blog. Emphasis on skill development (not knowledge acquisition) including research, software tools, and cooking 101. Children's literature is a cornerstone: we listen to talking books, read outloud together, and read silently. Emphasis on grammatical analysis (through diagramming) and vocabulary development (through Greek and Latin morphemes). We follow Ontario Curriculum guidelines with our own materials and enrichment. We tend to spend time at either the most basic foundational or at enriched levels of study and less on the middle ground and on repetition. Emphasis on how to organize knowledge through classification systems and graphic organizers and on how to use these in support of knowledge development. Nature studies keep us cheerful and surprised.
My Shelfari Bookshelf
Everyday links
Math links
Language Arts Links
History links
Science links
en Francais
What Zoo is working on
- Diagramming
- Analogies
- Prefixes including Greek & Latin ones
- Jump Math
Skills Zoo is working on
- helping o ut
- Parsing (breaking words in morphemes)
- Constructing & using a blog
What Zoo's reading
What we're listening to
- The Subtile Knife
What we're watching
What Zoo is creating
- Black Hawk helicopter
Places to learn
Questions Zoo is asking
- Why did God create disease?
Our Blog List
Zoo is thinking about...
- Lego again
- Building cages for amphibians & reptiles
Annod is thinking about...
- Incidental learning
Blog Archive
Labels
- 2-dimensional shapes
- 3-d shapes
- ADHD
- adrenalin
- affix
- airplane
- Amber Spyglass
- anarchy
- angles
- animal
- animal ark series
- animals
- animaux
- antennae
- ants
- arachnid
- architecture
- aristocracy
- art
- arthropod
- arthropod identification
- arthropods in our backyard
- atom
- automobiles
- bande dessine
- Battuta
- bauer marion dane
- beagle
- beetles
- biology-classification-arthropods-lepidoptera
- bird identification
- bird identification by shape
- bird identification by sound
- bird watching
- birds
- birds in danger
- birds in our backkyard
- birdwatching
- black hawk
- Black Hawk Down
- Boreal forest
- bound
- brain teasers
- bridge collapse
- bridges
- Bud Not Buddy
- bugs
- Bunnicula
- by shape
- by sound
- canada
- Canadian children's literature
- Canadian geography
- Carolinean forest
- castle
- Charles Schulz
- Charlie Brown
- chemistry
- children's literature
- City Creator
- class
- classification
- Clements Andrew
- coleoptera
- compass
- computer programming
- constitutional
- construction
- creative writing
- cricket in times square
- cube
- Curtis Christopher Paul
- Da Vinci
- dahl raold
- denmark
- derivatives
- Deslaurier
- diagramming
- DiCamillo Kate
- dictatorship
- dictionary
- discipline of structural enginnering
- discipline-art-practice
- discipline-biology-classicification-Kingdom Animalia-phylum arthropod-general
- discipline-biology-classification
- discipline-biology-classification-kingdom animalia-phylum arthropods
- discipline-biology-classification-kingdom animalia-phylum chordata-class aves
- discipline-biology-classification-phylum arthropod-class insecta
- discipline-biology-classification-phylum arthropod-class insecta order coleoptera
- discipline-biology-classification-phylum arthropod-class insecta order homoptera
- discipline-biology-classification-phylum arthropod-class insecta order lepidoptera
- discipline-chemistry-general
- discipline-geography-general
- discipline-literature
- discipline-mathematics-fractions
- discipline-science-inquiry
- discipline-science-physics-inquiry
- dog
- door in the wall
- drawing
- drawing birds
- dreams
- EB White
- electricity
- endangered species
- engineering
- engineering-structural
- errors
- evaporation experiment
- expo 1967
- family tree
- forbidden phoenix
- foret
- fractions
- francais
- free
- French grammar
- Frindle
- gears
- gender differences
- geneology
- geodesic dome
- geography
- geometry
- Golden Compass
- goosebumps "r.l. stine" "imaginary friend"
- government
- Governor General's Award
- grammaire francais
- grammar
- graph
- graphic organizers
- Greece
- Greek mythology
- Greek numerical prefixes
- guns
- hairy woodpecker
- hatching
- helicopter
- hemiptera
- His Dark Materials
- history
- hiver
- homeschool 2.0
- homeschooling
- hound at the hospital
- how to
- human body
- hummingbird
- Ice road truckers
- imagine if
- IMAX
- in our backyard
- inquiry
- insect
- insect identification
- insects
- insects-drawing
- interpretation
- Jack Gantos
- james and the giant peach
- Joey Pigza
- johann strauss
- king arthur
- knex
- knights
- Lac Creux
- lac st jean
- latin
- lego
- legs
- lepidoptera
- lesson plan
- light
- light pollution
- logic
- lynx
- magnification
- Marguerite de Angeli
- Mark Bowden
- Mecca
- medieval
- medieval arts and crafts
- microscope
- middle ages
- minerals
- missing teen
- Model T Ford
- mogadishu
- monarchy
- montreal
- morpheme
- morphology
- moths
- moths in our backyard
- multiplication
- myheritage
- myths
- National Geographic
- newberry
- news
- Noel Michel
- northwest territories
- novel
- oligarchy
- on my honor
- ontario
- Ontario curriculum
- ornithology
- ornithopter
- oven bird
- overdrive books
- parts of speech
- Peanuts
- periodic table
- petit spirou
- Philip Pullman
- phylum
- physics
- pic a bois
- pic chevelu
- Pien
- pilgrimage
- Pippisch
- poemhunter
- poetry
- polygon "polygon playground" whitevoid "interactive lounge object"
- polygons
- polyhedron
- prefix
- provinces
- puppy
- puzzles
- pyramid
- quebec
- quebec history
- Read-Aloud Handbook
- reading aloud together
- reading ideas
- reading roles
- reading silently
- reproduction
- republic
- Roblox
- rocks
- rodents
- root
- round table
- sand in eyes
- scat
- Schulz
- Science Centre
- science experiment
- scratch
- shiloh
- sid fleischman
- Somalia
- sound
- spelling
- spider
- spiderlings
- spirou
- structures
- subject-art
- subject-english-grammar
- subject-French-grammar
- subject-geography-general
- subject-language arts
- subject-math-fractions
- subject-science
- subject-science-biology-inquiry
- subject-science-inquiry
- submachine guns
- subnivean
- Subtle Knife
- suffix
- sugar
- symbolism
- symfacer
- symmetry
- Tale of Despereaux
- talking book
- tamiya
- tank
- taxaonomy
- tent caterpillar
- theatre
- theocracy
- tic
- timeline lego
- timelines
- TNT
- Toronto
- totalitarian
- trace
- tracks
- training
- Trouve
- true bugs
- trumpet of the swan
- US
- venn
- virtual school
- vocabulary
- vocabulary from classical roots
- volt
- waltz
- war
- war-thoughts on
- water
- weapons
- whipping boy
- wings
- winter
- wonders of the world
- woodpecker
- world geography
- Worldly Wise
- WWII
- yoyo
- Zack's 4th Place Learning
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