Well, this week in our studies, using FIAR, we did Mirette on the High Wire.  It was not my favorite book when we started out, although the illustrations are fantastic.  But, I came to like it a little better and my littles like it pretty well, now, too. 

Here's what we did:

Lang. Arts:  learned about compound words and did the worksheet here. Our spelling list for this week:  afraid, wire, high, fear, line, years, circus, salute. Vocabulary that we (inadvertantly) learned:  omelette, salute, boardinghouse (compound word).

Geography:  used the story disk to locate France and refresh ourselves on some things we already studied about France.

Social Studies:  Arts/Talents/Abilities - discussed special interests and how practice is also necessary to become proficient at things.  Dd mentioned that she would like to learn to sew.  Also, Occupations:  we read "Things People Do" (Usborne). 

Character/Bible:  We use "Leading Little Ones to God", but the character trait for this that we focused on was encouragement.  I believe it is soo important to be encouragement for one another.

Art:  We made posters announcing an event.

Science:  PE:  we pretended to walk a wire (using string), casting our eyes straight ahead, and keeping one foot directly in front of the other:)  It was cute watching all of them line up to do it.:)  

We also investigated copper (metal).  We found pics of things that are copper, and mentioned oxidation.  Polishing a penny helped demonstrate that.  Also, mentioning that the Statue of Liberty is made of copper and was given to our country from......FRANCE!!!! neat!!

Extra credit:  We served omelettes and crepes one night for dinner and french toast for breakfast one day!

To top it all off, we lapbooked it all!!!  It turned out to be a great week of FIAR for us. 

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