Roasted Rooster Red

Another interesting day in our homeschool…

We have lost many a chicken to different circumstances, this time we were about to loose our Roster Red. About a week ago he dislocated one of his wings, we did some research and decided to give a go at trying to bandage him up. Unfortunately he lost all his spirits and became utterly depressed 😦 so we decided to butcher him.

Never having butchered a chicken, rooster or any other animal for that matter (ok maybe a frog when I was a kid), we found ourselves delving into the YouTube archives for guidance. I was not prepared for the emotional charge I felt when life vanished from that animal, I cried like a baby.

As far as it come to homeschooling we had prepared the children for this event. They opted to not participate in the actual butchering… But both were involved in feathering and preparing the rooster for roasting. My husband scooped out the intestines and organs for a study on what kept this rooster alive.

Our daughter surprised me with her active interest in the feathering, her enjoyment in the quality of meet and interest in raising chicken for meet production. Go figure that a six year old can be so inclined to such reasoning. I on the other hand did cook our rooster but definitely was challenged by eating him, which was also the case with out son.

MammaRuu Homeschool Week 1

We are now done with the first week and enjoying our well deserved days off 🙂

Our Kindergarten curriculum for the past week:

Our story of the week from our Five in a Row curriculum was The Story about Ping, which is about a duck in China. Through Ping’s journey we got to know many aspects of the Chinese culture among which we learnt about discernment in our Bible studies. Ping took us on a road trip through the geography of China, we sailed on the Yangtze river with our water paints and 67 ducks (if I remember correctly) which also included some math of counting, we ate rice cakes and rice with chopsticks and studied buoyancy. Our science studies also included learning how salt and sugar are soluble in water, where as oil does not dissolve.

Math simply consisted of revisiting the numbers that the children were already familiar with. More or less review.

English and writing was also a week of review and for me figuring out where the children are at with their alphabets. Also I have been reading about how to implement the Charlotte Mason method of learning how to read into our studies. I feel a bit out of my water with teaching English, it not being my mother tongue and all, but I will do my best and see where God takes us from here 🙂 I have also been using the narration technique with the children, which seems to work amazingly well when you I do it in an atmosphere where the children are not thinking of narrating the stories back to me, but rather just doing it.

We went on several nature walks, learnt about some of the local trees including the Hemlock, Paper Birch and Oak. We also learnt about the Monarch and Tiger Swallowtail butterflies. To our amazement we also found a Maypop, it has an incredible flour that just sweeps you into the world of Dr. Seuss, and the fruit is apart of the passionfruit family! And it was on the walk near our house 🙂

The week also included arts and crafts, reading lots of books and many many laughs 🙂 Best quote of the day was from Freja at the dinner table tonight, after a field trip to a local organic garden:

“I am so happy!”

That is worth everything, it makes my heart smile!!!! Thank you God, thank you for answering our prayers in a way unimaginable to us!!!!