When we first moved to Atlanta in March of 2010, we were the only family homeschooling in our church.  In September, five other families started homeschooling.   This past fall, we started something new to kind-of liven things up a bit.  Friday’s became our “Presentation” day.  Each person would take a turn picking a subject for a Friday, and everyone would research the same subject, and then practice speaking and presenting in front of other people.  They could also use pictures and video to add to their presentations.   So it made our Friday’s so much more fun, not to mention we would all bring food to share and visit after the kids were done presenting.

Some topics covered were:

Volcano’s
Piranhas
Koala’s
Sucker’s
Chocolate
Wombat’s
Penguin’s
Pearl Harbor
Balloon’s
Peter Pan-James M. Barrie
Licorice
Jellyfish
Shark’s
Giraffe’s
Monkey’s

Sometimes one of us would put in some extra effort making and trying what we researched…such as trying all different flavors of licorice(a mom drove an hour round trip to go get them!).  Or homemade sucker’s(that I’m sure took some time).  We of course tried different kinds of chocolate.  And just to be clear if any animal lover’s are out there, we did not try any animals that we researched.  So don’t worry, no animal testing was done!