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ghts this year we are using the colonial williamsburg electronic field trips which we bought through the homeschool buyer s co op the first show was today though they are recorded and you can watch them anytime throughout the school year i highly recommend them we started out by reviewing the articles of confederation and the federalist vs anti federalist compromise while creating the constitution we started with this video about the making of the american constitution you can also watch the video on this ted ed site it also has multiple choice questions about the video and a dig deeper section next we watched this short video titled federalists vs anti federalists a compromise then we did all of the activities that were included in the cw eft the two major components were summarizing the 10 amendments and then reading about cases and documents and determining to which amendment they corresponded tomorrow we will actually watch the presentation as we spent two hours doing these videos and activities i found two more videos i d like to use a 3 minute guide to the bill of rights which is also from ted ed and therefore also has multiple choice questions and a dig deeper section and the bill of rights hand game us history review by keith hughes i have watched several of his videos and really enjoy them this particular one is to help you remember the first 10 amendments that appear most often on a particular test and mr hughes uses hand signals to help you remember what each of them mean as i ve been teaching alex again this year i m just amazed at all of the available resources a lot of teachers now flip their classrooms and you can find some wonderful videos to explain difficult concepts posted by dana leeds at 3 33 pm 2 comments labels government history tuesday september 03 2013 learning through movies nelson mandella apartheid we were at a restaurant last night and saw on the news that nelson mandella had been released from the hospital my husband started explaining to alex who he was and then told her he knew of a great movie that would teacher her a lot about him south africa and apartheid she knows 3 sisters triplets from south africa so this would seem more real to her the movie is by espn and it s a 30 for 30 film called the 16th man it s the story of how mandella used the sport of rugby to unite his country after becoming president it s an amazing story my link is to youtube but it is also available on netflix posted by dana leeds at 2 09 pm 3 comments labels history sunday august 18 2013 injured dove volunteering with baby squirrels we found this white winged dove in our pool earlier this week we were hoping he had just fallen in and gotten his wings wet and would be fine after he dried off we didn t see him again until the next afternoon when he was walking around the yard again we ended up on watching him for 3 days but he just couldn t fly my daughter wanted me to call a wildlife rehab place but i didn t think they would take a dove i finally called and they took him when we got there one of the volunteers said they thought his shoulder was messed up and he d probably hit the window when we got home i noticed a mark on our sliding glass doors where he definitely hit the window we have a case number and can check to see how our bird is doing in a week or so the rehab center also housed other animals that are permanent residents for whatever reasons they are used for educational purposes there were a couple of squirrels two opossums some snakes reptiles and owl and probably a few other animals it was nice and clean and i think alex i will start volunteering there they have two seasons for baby volunteers september october are for baby squirrels while march through august are for baby birds this week there is a volunteer orientation to become a baby squirrel feeder alex is too young to volunteer on her own but old enough to volunteer if i accompany her so we re going to give it a try it s a commitment three 4 hour shifts per month for the two months we re excited posted by dana leeds at 7 16 pm 2 comments labels nature saturday august 17 2013 we re back yes we have returned to homeschooling we homeschooled alex from kindergarten or from birth through 5th grade during 6th 7th grade she attended a private school but now she s in 8th grade we will be homeschooling again how do i feel about it excited nervous tired our first science experiment of the year i m excited because i love homeschooling love learning love teaching my daughter also we love the flexibility of homeschooling we plan on traveling a lot though i haven t defined that yet i m nervous because this is middle school and almost high school i feel like i could really mess things up but i know we can do this do it well i m tired because we started school on thursday both days i was exhausted when it was over i m already working on some changes this morning so it won t be so hard history is not working and i m totally changing it over the next week or so i ll try to share what curriculum we re using i m so excited to be returning to this wonderful way of life and this wonderful community i ve missed you all posted by dana leeds at 6 41 am 5 comments labels thoughts on homeschooling saturday april 13 2013 busch gardens behind the scenes alex had two weeks off for spring break this year so we decided to spend a few days in the tampa area my husband flew up on saturday night to pick us up from our cruise sunday morning the detroit lions train in tampa during the spring so we went for a game that afternoon it was st patrick s day and when these guys were raking the dirt they started dancing to ymca the next day we headed to busch gardens i think we saw this cute little squirrel where we stopped to have breakfast they make a little feather animal for the cheetah to chase using feathers from the park at this point she was turning around what a stop and after playing she got to enjoy a drink but she s ever watchful alex and her dad rode a lot of rides and i rode a few too i love the speed setting on my camera it got both the cheetah shots and this fast moving roller coaster shot they are the 3rd from the back row another of their rides alex loves these rides that just keep dropping you though she found lots of roller coasters to love at busch gardens next it was time for our behind the scenes orangutan and tiger private tour what an incredible experience it was just the 3 of us with a guide for 1 5 hours going behind the scenes into the orangutan house with the orangutans we got to see how they train them with simple hand signals most of the training is so they will present various body parts for medical exams even a female orangutan is if i m remembering correctly 4 times stronger than a human so they really need their cooperation here i am giving the signal for the orangutan to put his ear to the glass we did these exercises with two orangutans and then got to feed them through the tube there under my elbow we just dropped in pieces of fruit and here is one of the trainers with their smartest orangutan he s having her present her belly where they can do things like use a stethoscope or an ultrasound she even did a cartwheel and a handstand at alex s command next we visited the tiger house this tiger was working on a retrieval command there was a large stick in the water and he was supposed to jump in and get it he preferred using his paws to try to get it to come to the side and this tiger needed its blood drawn the lady near the head was feeding meatballs to the tiger to keep him occupied the two ladies at the tail were trying to draw blood from the tail the safest place to draw from unfortunately they weren t able to get any blood at this time but they didn t want to tire the tiger so they would try again later and here i am using a bouy on a stick to show this tiger where to put her head this is also a training so they can observe various parts of the tiger s body for medical purposes and our last stop was to go out in public to feed the 3 tigers on display alex chose a white tiger and was inside the glass area she had a little tube she would drop the meatballs into just like we did with the orangutans my husband had a similar set up but me i was on a bridge and had to throw the meatballs over the moat and onto a little rocky ledge where my tiger was i m really not a good throw but i made it to the tiger every time there were about a dozen meatballs and on the next to last one the tiger tried to catch it in his mouth so i decided to aim for his mouth with the last meatball and we did it he caught it in his mouth when we got back to our hotel for the night we saw this cute little guy hanging out by the trash bin posted by dana leeds at 4 21 pm 0 comments labels animals vacation florida older posts home subscribe to posts atom dana alex in dc oct 2010 about me welcome to my blog i homeschooled our only daughter alex for 6 years from kindergarten through 5th 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waffenschmidt we started something fun for geography this week it s called where in the world is mrs waffenschmidt there are 36 lesso the polio crusade american experience with alex being sick today we ended up watching the polio crusade which i had recorded with our dvr it is another pbs american experience raccoon scat recipe i got the recipe for the fake raccoon scat we enjoyed at a recent nature event when we played who dung it see post i know fat horned caterpillar picture above is of our caterpillar the right side is his face and the left side has the horn i actually thought the horn w nat turner rebellion tomorrow we will study the nat turner rebellion using three online resources image from wikipedia we will read nat turner blog archive 2017 1 july 1 alex is a senior 2013 46 december 1 november 3 october 1 september 1 august 2 april 4 march 2 february 12 january 20 2012 90 december 12 october 1 july 8 june 6 may 16 april 19 march 13 february 7 january 8 2011 20 december 3 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