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The best part of our week was Kayleigh feeling better. That allowed me time for things like schooling and folding Mt. Laundrey.
Bible
Elisha and the Widow
Naaman is healed of leprosy
Young King Josiah
Daniel
Math
We reviewed money. It took Kenzie all of 20 minutes to finish the week's work. So we rounded out the week using Singapore Math. She worked on adding 3 3-digit numbers which freaked her out at first. But after a few examples she declared it "fun!"
Science
We took a bit of a science break. At least from the book work. We used this week to catch up on some science experiments.
We did some experiments with water.
Float and Sink
The force of water
How shape effects the ability of objects to float
How a submarine works
Kayleigh ate grass
History
We completed week 9 this week. Mackenzie is LOVING knights and castles. It goes without saying that she loved Time Traveller. Some of the extras we did...
She learned how to draw a castle and wrote a little blurb about what she thought it would be like to live in a castle. (We got this from the Draw...Then Write book from Evan-Moor.)
The girl who hates to write insisted that it would take longer to write if she wrote 3 seperate sentences instead of one long one. "Three is more than one mom." Whatever you say...ROFL
She made a castle hinge book with a diamond poem about castles inside it. We got the book form from www.teacherfilebox.com, which is ran by Evan-Moor. I LOVE that site. The poem idea came from a unit study.
She also made a medieval coin purse that I found in the SOTW activity guide. I should have taken a picture of her wearing it. She actually uses it. LOL
FYI: Thieves cutting the strings on these purses is where the phrase "cutting the purse strings" comes from. I'm confident that you were dying to know that little tidbit. LOL
Language Arts
We finished Strawberry Girl and started The Minstrel in the Tower. We'll be done with that one in no time. Only 2 more chapters to go and we just started on Wednesday.
We ditched our 1st Sonlight book. The Last Little Cat had to go. We both totally hated it.
It was a surprise that we didn't like this one because we loved The Wheel on the School by the same author. It's the first book that my voracious reader has ever not liked. Even if something seems slow, she'll generally read along further to see if it picks up. Not this time.
Mackenzie said, "If this lady continues to repeat every sentence 5 times I might pull my hair out. I understood it was a world full of closed doors the first 30 times she said it." I had to agree. I also noticed she has my ability of exaggerated sarcasm when annoyed. Uh-oh! LOL
Extras
Soccer is still going well. They played the "best team" in the league this week. (I say best team tongue in cheek because technically this is an instructional league so we don't keep score. But since all the children know how to count they all know the score. ROFL) Last time we were creamed. This time they tied those mighty Lemon Drops. The little Lemon Drops were stunned. They've always creamed everyone.
We're still doing our art lessons and I thought I'd share this one. Kenzie's clown was soooo cute!
Kayleigh's Doings
Making a huge mess but not actually eating any food
Defying Mommy's orders and trying to crawl
Fieldtrip to the Farm
Notice the hair flying about. That's not the wind. That's Farmer Tom's Wild Ride. His hayrides are no joke. Woo-hoo!
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