Week 15 of Homeschool: We sketched an optical illusion, applied math using pattern blocks, experimented with light and shadows, created a Day In Your Life Bayeux Tapestry, copied an E.E. Cummings Christmas poem, studied American composers, read 13 books from the Beatrix Potter box set, rehearsed and performed for the CHDA Winter Recital, went to the zoo, and made a milk rainbow!
Week 14 of Homeschool: We added ornaments to our Jesse Tree, studied DNA (Daddy got a kit), read a poem about Bethlehem’s Christmas Mouse (thanks for sharing your talents Linda Nelson!) & wrote our own Christmas poem, learned about the Norsemen, worked on vertical addition, read Charlotte’s Web & watched the classic cartoon, studied hemispheres, made Truth in the Tinsel ornaments, rehearsed for the CHDA winter dance recital and made an Ephesians 6 gingerbread man!
Week 13 of Homeschool: We wrote in our gratitude journal and made a Thankfulness Tree, listened to “Kling Glochen” and translated the lyrics, read My Father’s Dragon, practiced composite shapes, learned about Bach and made german rye bread like he would have eaten, started our Jesse Tree for Advent, saw A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Roseville Theatre Arts Academy, made Truth in the Tinsel ornaments, rehearsed dances for the upcoming CHDA Winter Recital, practiced our Circle of 5ths, and made Christmas cards and goodies to send to family and friends!
Week 12 of Homeschool: We cooked a Moorish meal, launched bottle rockets 50 feet in the air, inflated balloons with vinegar and baking soda, wrote out the melody to Field’s original song “Mossview Way,” did CC review and cut out leaves for our thankfulness tree while eating gingerbread men, performed an evaporation experiment, wrote Bach’s minuet in G from memory (pitch’s all correct – no help from Mom!), learned about chameleons and their sticky tongues, completed the entire Doctor Mozart music theory workbook, and saw a Supermoon!
Week 11 of Homeschool: We made a Family Tree and created a map of our family dynasty, recorded a bean pod growing on our bean plant, created a collage-style still life from our reading of Henri Matisse, experimented with items in water to see if they float, decorated our bottle rocket for next week’s science project, and started writing a story based on a picture!
