The HerdKeeper

Josiah (11) total left brain. This looks identical to the one he was shown. Ben, age 12 (learning delayed) When snapping the picture of his cell. He hollared "wait, I think it blinked" Then of course he laughted hysterically. Ben is definitely right brained. Melaina is 9 and is left brained. While her brain cell was not detailed her explanation sure was. On our journey I have learned so much about my children. One of my favorite things about Konos is observing my children. By nature I like to jump in and take over and I like things done just so. Left brained I guess. But by sitting back and observing and letting my kids do the work they learn so much more and I learn about them. What they think, how they tick, there sense of humor. The three brain cells my kids made were a true reflection of their personalities. They each took their time and were serious about their project. The younger kids (1st, K and preK) did not participate in this. They were busy making ta...

I am not one of those hands on type of people. Konos is a stretch for me. I like to read. I knew going in that my kids would need to see and touch and do to get this human body unit down. I was not looking forward to it. We had a lot of fun discussing who was right brain and who was left brain. It was truly fascinating to me as I noticed that those who are left brained actually tend to hang together and those that are right brain hang together. Is that wild or what? We dug into the nervous system and did all kinds of hands on experiments that helped them nail down the nervous system. It was so great. The kids were playing hide and seek tag on Sunday night in the dark. (We can do that, we homeschool and do not have to catch the school bus at dark o'clock). My son Josiah was so excited to come in and tell me his nervous system is alive and well and that he experienced the autonomic reaction of fight or flight. Another fascinating thing happened, I handed out play dough to ...

The human body is not going as well as the bridges unit. It was easier for me to do the hands on with bridges, it was not touching slimy things. Could use some prayer there that I would just buck up and DO IT. We are self employed so finances are an issue with getting supplies as well. With that being said my kids drew in their bones and if I do so say so myself they did a great job. They are not going to be artists anytime soon but for kids who whined and complained that they couldn't do it. They DID IT. They are tossing around words like "hey, you stepped on my phalanges". We started work on the muscles yesterday and my kids were quite grossed out by the concept we were eating muscle. We have a roast to put in the oven this morning and we are all going to wash our hands and poke at it a little to see the grain. Then we are going to look at pictures I have of muscle cells. Not sure everyone will want to eat the roast beef tonight. We seem to be c...