Homeschool Week: 5

This morning was chilly and none of us were motivated to leave the house, so we decided to skip the co-op today. Low and behold, I find out later that there IS no co-op today because they have scheduled a field trip. Good thing we didnt go! Though that will teach me to look closer at the schedule and not just assume.

Instead of co-op we decided to do ART this morning (after our spelling test)!

Today the focus was on the "shapes" of objects. They had to cut out the shapes (without drawing) of the objects they wanted in their scene. Both boys chose wild animals as their object.


Sean has a red panda, here, carrying hay back to his "home"


Ryan has a Rhino (of course) and a tiger, they're getting attacked by an Indian who is across the river there shooting arrows.


Elizabeth did some art too. She used scissors for the first time! She did a great job and was so proud of herself!!



This week in school:

HISTORY: We studied the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact.
Here's a sample of the notebooking pages the boys work on. We discuss together what we learned after each lesson and write up a short narrative.




On Thursday we watched an episode of Drive Thru History that visited and talked about the places the Pilgrims came from and of course Plymouth, Mass.


We're still reading Almost Home for our read a loud book. Which is about their trip across in the Mayflower. It was really neat seeing all of the people we are reading about in the book show up on our History pages. And seeing their names signed under the Mayflower Compact.


Science: We are continuing our study on the Animal Kingdom and mammals. This week we talked about the different Primates and Aquatic Mammals. The boys loved learning that not all Primates are "monkeys" and how to tell the difference.


Bible: We finished up learning about David while he was hiding from King Saul. Our Hymn for this week is Leaning on Everlasting Arms

Language: Sean finished up his creative writing unit last week and is back to grammar (he's thrilled, not really). He is reviewing Capitalization rules. Ryan has finished up his week on sentence types and capitalization. He did great on his test!

Math: Sean has been working on Greatest Common Multiples and Least Common Factors. He does much better on those than I ever did in school - I always hated that! Ryan is learning the mechanics of division and still working on memorizing his 2, 3, 4, and 5's in multiplication.


Reading:
Sean is reading Om-Kas-Toe, he should be finishing that up on Monday.


Ryan has finally finished Viking Adventures! There were a LOT of chapters in this book, but they werent too long. It just took a lot of days to finish. Ryan said that he enjoyed the book though.



We had a pretty good week!!

PS here's a quick Chloe picture for you! I couldnt resist... I think she wants to play piano. :)



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