Week # 7

Privet!  We had a very fun and very busy week.  Along with our usual school activites, Artsy Girl began her American Heritage Girl meetings this week.  Since I am treasurer and helping to get this program started, I have stayed up many late nights.  It's ok though...it's for the girls to have fun and make lasting friendships!

Anyway, we took a detour this week for Soccer Boy from our Letter of the Week program (courtesy of Erica from Confessions of a Homeschooler).  We spent all week learning about camping and making our camping lapbook (courtesy of Jolanthe from Homeschool Creations).  He enjoyed this activity very much.  I really like making lapbooks, he seems to really learn by putting his book together.  He cut, matched, glued, learned beginning letter sounds and finally we made our own firepit out of a CD, sticks, rocks, and tissue paper.  We plan on having a mock campout in the living room tonight with homemade s'mores...yum!

It's off to Russia this week for Artsy Girl.  We headed straight to the largest country in the world.  We watched clips of the Nutcracker and learned all about Peter Tchaikovsky.  We watched a video on Siberia.  We learned all about some of the animals from Russia and she did a book report on endangered monk seals.  We studied about Peter Faberge and the history of the famous Faberge Eggs.  She even made her own replica.  We learned about Communism and Democracy.  We spent some time learning about Russian art by the famous Kandinsky and she made her own version of his abstract painting, "Squares with Concentric Circles".  We continued our Math and spent all week learning about nouns in English.  We began a unit on Rainbows in Science with several hands-on projects.  She really enjoyed this...doesn't every little girl like rainbows:)  She finished her study of Daniel in Bible and really enjoyed reading about him in the lions den.  I think that about covers it.  Oh, we also made homemade pretzels that were supposed to be made last week with our study of Germany (just ran out of time).  They were yummy, the kids loved making them!  We're off next week, as I will be out of town.  We will resume shortly as we head off to Italy (my favorite!).