Week 10

This week was pretty uneventful for school.  We just continued on with the usual.  We did, however, have some family Halloween fun on Wednesday because that was the evening everyone was home! We had pizza and the boys carved pumpkins.  Lily was the only one that dressed up this year because her work had a Halloween dance party for the kids!

 

Week 9

 

This week was a busy one for Nathan.  He had a chemistry test, a grammar quiz and a math test.  In geography, he made a constellation paper as we learned about early geographers learning through the stars.  We also started our new read aloud, which is The Graveyard Book. 

Week 8

The only pictures I got this week were from our Friday outing for dinner and Halloween drinks.  We did have a full week of school, though.  We finished our read aloud and Nathan gave it 3 out of 5 stars. Nathan had a writing assignment about a pet and he wrote about Teddy so that was this week's writing work--sloppy copy, revisions and a final draft.  

 

Week 7

This week, we experimented with making parallel and perpendicular lines for maps. In chemistry, we started learning orbital notation.  We are also getting so close to discovering the murderer in our read aloud!  It's a pretty busy time in school right now but that's a good thing!!

 

Week 6

In writing, Nathan felt inside bags and used adjectives to describe what he felt.  No weak words allowed!  

In chemistry, we started the Do-Wopp board which shows the placement of electrons in whatever element we're looking at.

For geography, Nathan made a clay to use the stamps we had made weeks ago and then baked the clay tablet.

Attempting math with Teddy's help.

It was a full week of active learning and we ended the week with school picture day!  It's hard to believe it's already been 6 weeks!!

 

Week 5

This week of school was only 3 days so Nathan got a nice break!  Brian and I took off for a fall trip to visit my nephew and his wife at their home.  It was a  really fun time together!  Back to school on Monday!

 

Week 4

We were back at our studies this week but we also had our supervising teacher visit on Monday and a half day Friday.  We worked on our first map project and then made homemade stamps from dough that we are currently drying.  We'll be using them to make some cuneiform writing prints soon.  Nathan is also working on his first writing assignment, starting off with a paragraph about an object.  He chose a snowball--yay!!  We are winter fans. :)