If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area & are a homeschooling family of color, consider joining Bay Area Multicultural Homeschool Educators (BAM-HE):

This group exists to provide support and resources to families of color who homeschool in the Bay Area. The vision for this group is that families of color can post multicultural-rich information, resources, curricula, links, field trips, learning opportunities, park/play days and other things of interest.

The group is open to anyone who homeschools a child of color; to help support your efforts in finding quality multicultural resources to enhance and reinforce teaching from your ethnic background or helping to find resources to teach about a cultural background with which you may be unfamiliar.

The group is not meant to be exclusive, however, many families of color will attest to finding it difficult to find others of “like background” for cultural support in homeschooling.

Click to join BAM-HE

I am teaching a knitting camp this week & my son is tagging along for the ride.  He worked on his scarf for his grandmother today.  Here’s a picture of the progress.

My son has repeatedly asked to do more sewing, and today we sorted through my fabric box & he chose fabric for a basic pillow. He stuffed it and I handstitched the closure. Here is the finished project. He is over the moon with delight! He’s up in his room now “testing it out”!
Additionally, we did some writing worksheets. A primer of sorts to diagramming. All around good work.

Stumbled across a great program today called How It’s Made.
During one of the shorts, it mentioned photosynthesis, so we took the opportunity to extend our learning by mining a gem from this site.

I’m an avid knitter. For my son’s birthday earlier this week, I knitted him a light sweater. I had to sew in a zipper. My son already knits, having learned in Kindergarten. Today he expressed interest in sewing. He made two fairly straight lines and sewed a “pocket”. He did a great job!