whoa, that is something! my entire life, history has been my least favorite subject to study. and with my major, i had to take a lot of upper level history courses...which were painful and dull.
but...i have found myself ENJOYING learning history these past 4 weeks with Classical Conversations (CC)! between the songs (that i cannot get out of my head, but aren't annoying...yet) and "The Story of the World" books, i am digging into this history stuff! and i am loving it when the books we check out from the library correlate so well with what we've memorized and expounds on it in a way that the girls and i perk up at. (e.g., King John dying by over-eating at a celebratory feast. [sorry if that's morbid, but it's so ironically painful.])
the pieces are falling into place...at least for medieval history, so far. and we're having fun making stuff that fits along with the time period. Ladybug asked me if we had any chain mail we could dress her Barbies in. :) sounds like a Honey project to me!
so, here are some fun things we've been up to recently:
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our FOOD CHAIN study was uber interesting to the girls,
as is anything involving animals, right?! |
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yesterday we performed a WATER CYCLE experiment.
the girls loved seeing the "cloud" condense inside the jar. |
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after our experiment, we made our own WATER CYCLE
in our science folder. |
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each week we've been learning how to skip count.
the girls visualize this on the board by circling the correct #s. |
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| another math lesson: learning to write & create numbers correctly |
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| love these geoboards - although, the curvy numbers are tricky! |
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we learned about abstract art at CC this week, so we've had
tons of fun making our own. i've even had some fun!
they say my abstract art looks like pigs... |
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almost finished product. i had the girls fill in the lines where the
tape was with their names - over and over and over again. |
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this week we worked on writing Ls. the girls love my sentences
and the subsequent drawings. art and handwriting together is more fun! |
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| ladybug's lion(s) |
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| sugarbee's lion and lollipop |
AND - last but not least, the most fun we had this week was learning about Richard the Lion-hearted and the crusades. we've been studying knights and armor, so we had to make our very own shields and the girls designed their own coats-of-arms. they picked their symbols (lion & dragon) and their colors according to the meanings behind them that i researched. it's been WAR at our house, but no casualties (yet).
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| ladybug the brave! |
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| sugarbee the fierce! |
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battle! we even acted out the 3rd crusade when
King Richard and Saladin fought.
the outcome may not have been historically accurate... |
on to more history (did i say that?!) and homeschool fun!
OH - and a big achievement this week: ladybug finished her 100 lessons of reading book! she was so excited (as am i). now, we're going to be reading more books together and begin All About Spelling.
