WEEK IN REVIEW - WEEK 4

We finished up our first month of school this week! We certainly had a very full week.


In science we are still learning about the skeletal system.

Did you know that if you measure your arms straight out, it will be very close in size to your height? Amazing.

And did you know that I am completely in love with Boo's hair like this? She is such a good student.

She tries sooo hard to make her letters perfectly.

While Banana tries hard to teach her stuffed bunny how to write. He's coming along nicely. However, Banana is still dilligently working on her spelling...

Love, love, love the bear ears in her hair

We are continuing to work on all of our memorization pieces - Boo loves the singing best of all.

And this week we began our studies of famous composers and artists. This week we studied about Monet and impressionism. We also listened to Beethoven Lives Upstairs - the girls really enjoy it.

We tried our hand at making our very own "Monet's".







While they painted, I read to them some stories about Monet's life through living books.

We experimented with tube tracks - always fun!

We worked dilligently on spelling...sigh... anyone know of a really good spelling program for those who are "spellingly challenged"???

Boo worked on spelling out words by looking at some flash cards and then using her set of Magnet Letters to spell them out on the board.

We even dressed up like a Medieval Princess!

The highlight of the week for Banana was making a quill ink pen using a real turkey feather and ink as part of our history studies. It was a very interesting process to transform the feather into a pen. We were so surprised when it actually worked!!



Banana enjoyed writing all of her grandparents letters, and then properly addressing the envelopes for the mail.


I think we killed a few trees with all the paper the girls used up - this activity went on all afternoon and into the night until I finally had to put a stop to it. One Mommy can only tolerate so much black ink in the kitchen. You can be sure these feathers will be coming out again soon!

Boo was determined to write in cursive - I guess a quill pen just begs to be used in cursive.

No - she didn't write the word "Jesus" - she asked me to do that, but she did write her name in cursive there at the top!

And I received a wonderful love letter.

We also created our own mossaics just like those in Byzantine era. Well, maybe not JUST like them, but we did our best! Plaster of Paris in the kitchen is also a lesson in patience and self-control. But the smiles on their faces make it all worth while.

Of course - we did SOOO much more than just what you see here, but most of it is not as exciting to look at. Lots of reading, dictation, narration, copywork, co-op classes, workbooks, critical thinking, and much more! If only we had a few more hours in the day. Hope you had a great week too!