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And the Week Flies By…
I have some major updating to do about our school week. Before I know it Wednesday has arrived and I haven’t posted anything about what we’ve been doing. Monday we started new events in History (The Mycenaean Culture) and Linguistics (the words relieve, believe, conceive, either, field, thief, grief, wieners, neither, seize, conceived, shield, belief, being …
Carnival
Whew! This morning has been crazy! We started off by completing another math lesson and reviewing for the Latin quiz tomorrow. Then I had to get 3 kids dressed, fed and ready to go for the End of Summer Carnival one of the moms from the ECHO group put together. I wish I had any …
My Little Artists
Today was fairly successful. While we weren’t finished by lunch, Blazer was more interested in our subjects as so we spent a little more time on each. Math was spent still working through Singapore. He is doing well with one lesson a day. We also finished the book How to Think Like a Scientist by …
Month Review
Happy Friday and last day of April. I am looking at the calendar we use for school hanging on the wall and am more than a little embarrassed to confess that while it says it April, all the days still line up with March. I am now officially two months behind. I am hoping to …
Week in Review
This week has flown by and I’ve been too tired most days to update the blog…so I’ll try and get it all in today! Sunday Blazer officially turned 6. When I asked him how it felt he said “Fine, but my voice hasn’t changed yet!” This was a great concern to him and I explained to …
Art
We’ve been working through ARTistic Pursuits and having fun learning how to create art using a variety of mediums. However, Blazer keeps coming back to one scene. He is always wanting to paint, oil pastel, model clay or draw a camping scene. So, here is his latest creation. I wish it came out better, but my …
Hammurabi
We’ve finally gotten to 1700 BC in history, which means we get to cover the Code of Hammurabi. This code is the oldest written record of laws predated only by the Epic of Gilgamesh. We’ve been having fun reading his biography and learning about cuneiform. So, today we had to get out the clay and make …
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Grocery Bag
We’ve been learning about Joseph this week and as a project made a Technicolor grocery bag. Racer was not going to sit idly by while Blazer painted, so they both made one.
Butter Fail
I don’t know what I did wrong, but the butter was an utter disaster. We shook and shook the whipping cream. We refrigerated it for an hour. But when it came time to strain it and run water over it until the butter hardened, it all went down the drain So we will try again …
It’s been awhile
I will try to get better about posting more often! We had our weekly ECHO (homeschool group) meetup today. We were supposed to decorate pumpkins, but my husband misunderstood my shopping list item “small pumpkin” and brought home 2 10 lb pumpkins. I really didn’t want to carry 20 lbs of pumpkin into the library …
