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I'm going to give you the Cliff's Notes version this week, as I'm getting ready to fly off to Oklahoma on Monday and have WAY too much to do still.. We continued along the same course in Bible, French, language arts, and math. The girls were working on geometry concepts in Singapore tMath his week.. looks like they've found their favorite math topic! Just like Mom.. geometry was the only thing I looked forward to in our huge, dry math textbooks. We read more chapters in Understood Betsy, Little Pilgrim's Progress, and delighted in the first section of "The Pygmies" from Tanglewood Tales. In science, we read about dinosaurs after the creation, learned about other members of the marmot family, and did experiments to explore tides, floating/sinking, and how sand is created for our oceans study. Geography time was focused on learning about Canada (YAY!) and working in our North America lapbooks. We also (tried to) learn the differences in different bodies of water such as strait, channel, sound, bay, and gulf. Samuel pointed out that "It's just like Mexican food.. there's lots of names for the same things." Hee hee..! History brought us finally to the invasions of the Huns and Visigoths, and the Fall of Rome. The kids loved finding words or inventions that were handed down to us from the Romans. US History took us through the flip-flopping adventure of how New Amsterdam became New York in This Country of Ours. This was our last week of having Bach as our feature composer, and we've enjoying listening to Mr. Bach Comes to Call from Classical Kids. We also looked at Portrait of Margaret van Eyck by Jan van Eyck ("Why did they want all the women to look like devils, Mom?") and did some enjoyable drawings with oil pastels. There you have it! Have a wonderful week, everyone!
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