Today  we start a new week of school.  IT seems like the last two weeks we didn't get much done.  The 1st week we spent cleaning and painting the dining room because we had company coming for the weekend. Now hopefully we can get back to work. This week  we are studying Canada, The French and Indian wars, simple machines, and all the other normal subjects.  The kids are making big notebooks.  They each have a "world" notebook, a "Native American" notebook, a "States" notebook and  a small "Simple Machines"  notebook. They make a new lapbook/notebook for each science unit we cover.  Then they each have a notebook for all the history/grammar/spelling stuff. 

   They have been adding to the big notebooks for a few years, and will continue to add things as we study each country, etc. in the next few years.We really love using Learning adventures.  This history based curriculum is really neat. 

      We finally put our timeline up on the wall!  It is fun for the kids to make all the little icons to put on it.  It really helps in discussions to point to the timelime and see in time where we are.

    Gotta go......