Unit 23: Preparing

Yikes! I've been so busy this week that I totally forgot about posting. This was a busy week for us, so we decided to have a half week of school. We're getting a new baby cousin (nephew for me!) We took a couple days off of school to prepare a baby shower and do some shopping.

History: In history we learned about the fall of the Roman Empire and started learning about Barbarians!We learned about the Germanic tribes and Vikings. We read about Attila the Hun.

Sis researched Viking Brooches. We looked at pictures of them and learned facts like what they were used for. Women wore two brooches, while the men only wore one.

Sis' project was to make a Viking brooch out of cardboard and aluminum foil. We didn't really want to do the project because we just made a "denarius" out of aluminum foil a few weeks ago and it sounded like the same project.  I found a website for kids on how to make a clay viking brooch, so we did that instead. Sis used air-dry clay to form and design her brooch. It dried overnight and then she painted it gold on day two. Here is a link to the website with instructions...http://timetravellerkids.co.uk/news/make-a-viking-brooch/

We're still enjoying our viking chapter books. I ordered the next two and surprised Sis with them. We're already on book two. I love that Bree, the main character is a Christian! She doesn't understand why God would let her be kidnapped by vikings when she's prayed for protection for her family. She's learning to trust Jesus and let him use her even in unfortunate circumstances. These books are so suspenseful...loving them. 

Language & Math: Sis still does vocabulary every week. Her words to look up and write in her notebook this week were: "pomp, unity, and era." She got 100% on this week's spelling test. In English we are currently diagramming sentences with predicate adjectives. In math Sis took a big 3 page unit test over everything we've learned so far this year...she did pretty well.

Science: We're learning about the heart in science right now. This week Sis started making a model showing the different parts of the heart as we learned about them. The left and right atrium and ventricles were made out of cardboard. The right painted blue and left painted red. We will finish it next week and I'll post pics.


I will post Boo's school work next week since we had such a short week and I didn't take many pictures.

On a kind of sad note we were suppose to take a homeschool art class this week, but ended up being so busy that I forgot to register! Hopefully next month we will be able to go to that. This school year is passing by so quickly to me. I had so many things planned that we haven't got to and it's already March! There's a field trip to a nearby factory that I really wanted to take.  Right now though we have a new baby coming in our family, two vacations to plan for this year, a new puppy (who is taking much more of my time than I anticipated,) holidays and birthdays coming up (Sis turns 10 next month!) and just so much going on! Hopefully we can fit in our school trip and art class somewhere.  Dad definitely gets brownie points this week though for coming home with flowers saying, "sorry you're having such a stressful week."