I've decided to pop back on this blog and use it again for keeping records of our homeschool activity.  We ventured out and tried a charter school this past year (didn't like it!) and so we weren't really Soaring Arrow Academy for a whole year!  I missed being us :)

Literature:
Last week we read the Lamb's version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and then went and watched a free Shakespeare in the Park performance of the same play.  I forgot that I had ordered a movie version of the play from Netflix, so we proceeded to watch that as well (with just a bit of fast-forwarding from mom).  By the third run-through of the story the boys were fully understanding it and able to bask in the humor of the awkward situations.

History:
We are studying the American Revolution this summer.  I'm anxious to get finish Truthquest's American History for Young Students I, and then go through II and III over the next year.  This month we've read Chapters 51-55 of This Country of Ours, alongside Sleds on Boston Common, Paul Revere's Ride (Longfellow's poem with delightful illustrations), General George Washington, Story of the Liberty Bell, and various commentary from the TQ guide.

The boys added Paul Revere, George Washington, and Daniel Boone to their timelines.

For independent reading on the American Revolution, C has read The Value of Foresight:  The Story of Thomas Jefferson,   .  Micah has read George Washington and the General's Dog, Paul Revere's Ride (again!).   Daniel has had the following books read to him:  George Washington and the General's Dog.

My dad sent us a link to a book called The Young Trailers.  The book is set in Kentucky during the time of the Revolutionary War.  We started reading a couple chapters a week.  The boys find it very interesting as we just studied Daniel Boone last month, so we've had a taste of Kentuck.

Geography:
We are headed to Yellowstone this summer, so Hubby decided the boys should have an introduction to the Rocky Mountain States.  We read about these states in the Young People's Atlas of the United States (16,17).  We also covered Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in our Trail Guide to U.S. Geography (mapping important items on each state map, learning to find information on maps and in the atlas and through Google.  C did special research projects on Idaho's --- and Wyoming's --- and M researched Idaho's --- and Wyoming's ----.)  I downloaded the student eBook (Primary level for all 3 boys) and am loving how much easier it makes this geography program to go through.