We are a creative homeschooling family of 3. I have homeschooled my 2 boys from the start and we do lots of unit studies and get out into our beautiful part of the world as often as we can.
As the boys are getting older and we are getting busier I find I am posting less about our journey but will continue to update occasionally.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Rainforest Unit study planning stage

In this post I am going to store information for an upcoming unit study we will be doing, we are going to learn about rainforests- particularly Australian rainforests and flying foxes.

Rainforest Explorer contains a wealth of activities and resources about the Wet Tropics rainforests and their plants and animals. The library is packed with resources including rainforest videos, wildlife photos and activity sheets.

The many different activities are designed for use by both students and teachers. All activities are tailored to suit the Queensland school curriculum. There are also lots of great activities for after school or if your family plan to visit the rainforest.

You can browse through three different sections:

  • Preparatory to Year 3
  • Year 4 to Year 7
  • Year 8 to Year 9.
A Wonderful Squidoo Lens on Rainforests

Homeschool Share have a lovely unit on The Great Kapok Tree

Drawing lessons rainforest animals

Gondwana Rainforest types of Australia


Enchanted learning
Rainforest
Bats

Bats- creatures of the night

Loads of Bat links

Stellaluna resources
In search of Stellalunas family
Homeschool share unit



Visiting Homeschool Family

Beaches to explore
Gardens to visit
Paths to follow
Rainforests to discover
Adventures to have
Friendships to build
lots of fun
beautiful weather
time to just be together
We have loved having our homeschool friends come to stay, and are looking forward to the next visit.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Sugar Cane Fire

We had great timing last night on our way home and passed a sugar cane field as the farmer was burning it.
The power of the fire was awesome
the roar of soundthe heat