Week 32

School this week...

Lily had a number of chapters to read this week so I told her to decide how many to do each day. She got through them all. I came in to get the work she was done with and the cat was laying on it so I had to wait.  :)

Art fun!  We made salt paintings for Easter.  Hunter and Samuel made Easter eggs, Lily a cross and Nathan made a butterfly.

Nathan and Black Spot thinking...he's checking our b/d sign to help him figure out if this is a b or d on the card.  He started reading compound words this week.

Lily typing up her report on a whale's body.  

Read aloud time!  We are reading Greek myths and it doesn't keep everyone's attention.  Nathan was lulled to sleep this day and the cat joined him!

Nathan matching birds in reading:

A little fire experiment.  We were seeing what was flammable and what was not.  Everyone got a turn putting two things in the fire.  

Twins matching!  :)

We had Friday off for Good Friday and we'll have Monday off to recover from Easter, plus Samuel has a dentist appointment.  Back to regular schedule on Tuesday!

Week 31

Hunter trying to do his cursive but the cat is sitting right on top of his book!  

School table mess!  Nathan has been using tally sticks in math so he decided to spell his name.

 Watercolor painting in art this week:

Nathan started a class at the homeschool building all by himself!  He did great!!  We celebrated with lunch together.

The twins started an art class together and this is a sample of their projects from the 1st class.

Hunter's picture of Little Bear eating Goldilocks:

Lily's picture of Red Riding Hood, with her pistol (as in the story they were read):

Week 30

We had a full week of school and not a lot of pictures to show for it!  

Lily working on her writing assignment:

The kids' art projects this week:

Nathan and I read a book about storms so we had some fun activities about rain and clouds this week.

Week 29

A busy week this week!  Nathan and I played some math games for an assessment.  Samuel also had a math assessment.  He is so close to being done with his math book for the year.  

Lily started a new book for her independent reading.

We worked on self-portraits for art.  Samuel was very resistant to this project!

We made candy sushi:

Lily and I went to see Beauty and the Beast.  2 cousins joined her but my picture with all 3 girls didn't turn out!

We had prize day!  We enjoyed pizza:

And prizes!

Samuel got an explosive lab kit so we tried out the volcano as soon as we could:

Finally, Nathan had his Pinewood Derby and he was determined to get a trophy!

He didn't win a trophy (5th place!) but Hunter gave him one of his so he was pretty happy.  Two of his cousins also made him homemade trophies!!  :)  

Week 28

We did not take any pictures of school this week!  We did do school even though area schools were on spring break but the kids got Friday off because of a cousin sleepover!

We did get some snow pictures:

Week 27

This week, Nathan and I read Madeline and opened our box on France.  This was our last country box and they were a lot of fun!

We attempted to build the Eiffel Tower out of cookies and frosting!

The big kids worked on a mapping project...tracing the U.S. and adding some Native American mounds.  This was for our ancient history so it was around 700 B.C.  

I'm forgetting pictures but we've kept busy!  This week is not spring break for us, like most other schools.  We are going to enjoy a slower schedule and still get work done!

Week 26

Nathan working on reading and rhyming.  He's doing really well and his attitude hasn't been as bad about reading lately.

For art this week, we made Mardi Gras masks:

 I tried to get a picture of Samuel with his fractions and measuring cups but he hid.  Ugh!