Week 2

This week we're finally starting to get back into the swing of things and back to a routine. We still have not started any math, Sis' spelling, or Boo's Language for the year. I'm slowly adding new subjects one at a time. I'm a little concerned because without those subjects, we're already having full school days. A typical school day for us begins around 10 am and ends around 3pm including lunch and breaks. I might have to do some adjusting in order to fit it all in, since math will prob take a good part of our mornings.

History: Sis and I started reading a good book together this week to go along with her history studies. It's called the Golden Bull. It's a story about two young kids in ancient Mesopotamia and the Biblical city of Ur. So far it's been really exciting and keeps us wanting to read more. One thing I have to say is that every school year we get all of these read-alouds. I usually take one look at the cover and think..ugh that looks long and boring, but we always end up loving these stories. They are always filled with history (real living books, no fluff) yet they are thrilling stories that keep our interest. I love that Heart of Dakota always picks excellent books for me to read to Sis that I would have never chosen for her on my own.

Here is some of Sis's written work this week in her history journal. Her journal includes copy work, a narration of text that she read, a timeline, bible verses, and this week she did a family tree of the 10 generations after Noah.























Boo learned about Christopher Columbus in US History this week. she made a picture of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria with construction paper. We read all about Columbus and added his picture to our timeline. Boo did some copy-work and colored a picture of a ship. We're working on neat handwriting and grammar (like capital letters and punctuation.)

 

 Boo and I also started her read aloud history books. We are reading stories from American Pioneers and Patriots.

Science: We are learning about light for the first day of Creation in our Science In the Beginning book. All 4 of us are doing science together this year. This week we learned that white light is actually made up of all the colors of the rainbow. When we see a rainbow in the sky we are actually seeing the colors of the white light from the sun being separated. For our experiment we looked at a flame from a candle through a CD, which has the ability to separate the colors. The reflection of the flame showed up in all the colors of the rainbow. It was actually really cool looking. Boo also learned the order of the colors of the rainbow.

Bible: Sis is studying the book of Genesis right now and learning memory verses. Boo began making her "Names of Jesus" poster. Each week we will be learning a different named used for Jesus in the Bible and adding it to our poster. This week we started by learning what the name Jesus means "The Lord Saves," and that the angel told Joseph that they were to name the baby Jesus.

Art/ Poetry: Our Robert Frost poem this week was called "The Pasture." The girl's painted a pasture spring with twigs sticking up.

Other than that Boo only missed one word on her first spelling test ever!! I'm so proud of her. Also, I didn't take a lot of pictures of Baby Bear but she had fun painting with us, watching the science experiment this week, and she learned the letter "B."