How Waldorf Approaches Science and Chemistry Specifically; Materials and Resources We Are Using for our Homeschool Chemistry Block Earth, Air, Fire, and Water – The four Ancient Greek elements. This is the lens that we are looking through as we work through our Chemistry Block this year. We’re working through our eighth year of homeschooling…
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Middle School Geography Block
Scaling up a Elementary Block to Fit a Middle School Geography Curriculum We recently did a block for geography that I used a lot of the books and activities that we did in elementary school. This was a short three-week block. For this post, I’m going to show you how I scaled the entire block…
pH Rainbows, Probability and Tricky Hydrogen
A Homeschool Science Lesson about pH, Concentration of the Hydronium Ion, and Logarithmic Scales. A pH lesson may be my very favorite lessons. It has all the best things – math, science, and rainbows. This lesson was a two day process, but I’ve been subtly leading us here for a while, on the math side…
Using Multiplication and Division Seminar Part I
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Preparing for High School
… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math.You can learn more about them at https://thebeautyofplay.com/membership/ . If you are interested, you can sign up for my newsletter HERE where I will…
Density Lab
Exploring Density’s Role in our Grade 6 Earth Science Study We’ve done this lab before in her Chemistry Block for G3, but you know how I feel about repeating things – it’s a great idea! Density plays such a big role in the formation of the Earth and of the Earth’s atmosphere. I felt we…
Convection in our Earth Science Studies
Exploring the Causes of Plate Tectonics, Currents, and Climate in our Grade Six Science. Convection is a strong theme in our Earth Science studies this year. We are seeing it in tectonic plate movement. We are also seeing it in the water and air currents. To make sure that we had a concrete understanding of…
Making Mushroom Spore Prints
We love to go mushroom hunting. Our mushroom hunts are for spore prints. We do NOT eat our mushrooms. I wish I knew which ‘shrooms were edible and which were not, but alas… Goals! Spore prints are a favorite around here. I do not know how I made it all the way through my college…
Planning our Fifth-grade Freehand Geometry Block
I’m planning my daughter’s fifth grade year for next year, and I’ve gotten distracted by her free-hand geometry unit. Why do I say distracted? Well, that is currently scheduled as the last block of the year with 10, yes I said 10, previous block in front of it. But really, who can blame me?! Waldorf…
Homeschool Planning for my Daughter’s Year 4 Journey
We start homeschooling again in not quite two weeks. I finally settled down and finalized with a framework for our year will look like. I say framework, because in homeschooling things change, and it’s important to be adaptable. In the video below I go over the blocks we will be doing and why I scheduled…
Schooling at Home thru the Covid-19 Pandemic
Homeschooling is not school at home. It has a totally different look and feel to it. I think at a time like this we probably have enough stress, that to try to replicate school at home right now would be far too much. But I do have some ideas that can promote, encourage, and continue…
Using HABA Orchard for Math
The cooperative game of Orchard is used to teach more, less, by how much, and graphing.