Week 4

Bon Jour...we had a very busy week!  It seems we did several projects this week, so I have lots of pictures. 

It was all about the letter E for Soccer Boy.   He is getting the hang of how we do things each day.  He knows when I pull out certain sheets what he is supposed to do without me telling him.  We colored by numbers, sorted elephants by size, did some elephant graphing, painted letter Ee's, did a letter E word hunt and finally put together an E for our alphabet tree (very cute).  We didn't have gray foam, so we have a purple elephant:) We are also continuing his daily reading from his children's Bible...he really likes these stories!

This week we headed off to France.  We learned a few French words, watched a video on truffles, learned about Claude Monet and even made one of his famous waterlily masterpieces.  We learned about the history of the Eiffel Tower and made our own 20 inch replica!  We also learned that soap was accidentally invented in France, thus becoming now well known for their lovely French soaps.  We decided to make our own version...we melted glycerin and soy milk soap, then added fragrances (lavender, of course, since it is from the French countrysides..pearberry and cucumber) and then the fun part...the kids added the soap coloring to form all kinds of unique colors.  They soooo enjoyed this project and were amazed with the finished product.  We now have 21 bars of colorful soap that smell great!  The kids have been using their soap each night! 

Artsy Girl started learning about the "Writing Process" in language arts and we will continue this next week as she drafts, proofs and publishes her very own story. She also did great on her weekly spelling test with short vowel words.  We are continuing subtracting in math with 3 digit numbers (she really does not like this...she puts this off until last :( )  She is continuing her daily bible lessons and also we are still learning about the different phylums of plants (there are many!) in science.