This week has been really unorganized for us...*L*  Sometimes it just seems that no matter ho much you plan, you just don't get everything done...

We continued with "Handwrting without Tears"...DS really loves doing cursive with this program... He absolutely hated the ABeka cursive... We quit it half way through the year last year...

DD worked on counting to 30 and writing her numbers to 20... She can write all her ABC's on command now and knows her vowels...(YEAH!!!)

We started working some more with plants and started some seeds.. (Marigolds, gourds, Impatiens)...

We did some more with our "worm" habitat...We now have some egg shells breaking down for them to eat...

We started history this week with another go-around with "Story of the World"...This time it's going so much better as DD is older and understands more of it.. We also made a cardboard loom and worked with some yarn  and pretended we were early farmers using the wool from our newly tamed sheep / goats... They loved doing this... We also did some more "cave" paintings using finger paint this time...DD was fascianted with the story of the young Nomad girl... DS thought it was cook they ddn't have to take a bath...*L*

We talked the "Fertile Crescent" and where it was located and found it on the globe and the map...DD kept referring to the fact that it really wasn't shaped like a moon... (that's a 5yo for ya'...*L*)  Even thought it is similar in shape, I thought...

I used Abraham in our teaching this week as he too was nomadic and we talked about the struggles early man had compared to out comfortable life today...

We are still working on 3 digit addition and subtraction...I think in a couple of weeks we may begin on the multiplication tables with DS....

I need to order our butterfly house and the larvae... I also need to get our tadpoles ordered... I am hoping to get to these for May.... I am ordering them from Earths Birthday Project... They donate percentages to conservation  / habitat growth.... They also have butterfly and rainforest lesson plans online...

Well, that was pretty much it for us in a nutshell this week... Hope you had a great week!!

Happy Learning!!!