This week:
Math
Everyone did three or four lessons in their various Rightstart levels. I have been debating switching out of Rightstart for next year, because it is so very teacher intensive, and Christopher doesn't seem to do as well with it as Grace has. I played a game of Corners with James.
Language Arts/Latin
James did four pages of Spelling Workout A. Grace and Christopher did a page of Latin. Grace wrote a short paper about maple sugaring and Christopher wrote a paper about ocean sunfish. Grace also made a page for her nature journal, inspired by some of the telescope viewing we did this week. Christopher wrote a review of a Lego set to post on Barnes and Noble. Incidentally, I have found that being able to print out
custom writing paper is a huge incentive to get my kids writing.
Reading
We read a couple more chapters of The Wind in the Willows. This book is proving more and more difficult to get through, but I'm trying to hang in there. The boys get especially antsy when I am not reading about Toad! At bedtime, I have been reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
with Grace, Frightful's Mountain
with Christopher, and The People of Sparks with James.
Science
We spent some time with our telescope, looking at Mars and the craters of the moon. We boiled more sap to make maple syrup-boy is it a good year for sap! Our buckets are always overflowing. We ate the syrup on our pancakes (the best part). We took a trip to a flower show where we learned to identify some new flowers. Christopher spent some time reading Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide
History
Not much going on here this week I'm afraid! Last Friday though, we spent all day at a living history museum. We watched a blacksmith, visited an old time store, saw how maple trees used to be tapped, explored historic houses, and came home with a kit to make punched tin ornaments. The kids also took part in an old-fashioned donut making workshop. Rose enjoyed looking at all the farm animals, but she tired of the rest
of it pretty quickly!
Art
Grace made herself an eye pillow this week on the sewing machine. She has started sewing a fabric case for her camera. She also made tissue paper flowers, which she plans to feature in our homeschool newsletter. Both James and Christopher spent time coloring pictures of fish they printed off the Internet.
Etc.
It was a good week!
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