Weeks 12 &13

I am combining these last two weeks together, since Artsy Girl has been sick with bronchitis.  She has had a rough time, so we have been doing lots of reading.  Sometimes I think that just by reading to your children, they learn an abundance about our world and history.  I have really taken to the principles of Charlotte Mason and her beliefs that literature and nature are the foundations of education.  So we have read and read and read some more this week.  We finished reading a couple of books about the Revolutionary War.  She finished her Magic Treehouse Book detailing Jack and Annie's adventures with George Washington during the war.

Soccer Boy finished up his study of the letter "O".  My Father's World had us exploring the oceans and even an octopus.  We cut pictures out of all my stacks of magazines (I knew they would come in handy) of anything that had to do the ocean.  On Tuesday, we made an ocean poster with all our finds.  To help him with the sight words we have been reading, I decided to make him a little "ring" of words.  Really any excuse to use my laminator...makes me smile!  I will continue to add new words each week or two.  I plan on him using these in the car or when Artsy Girl is in karate and we have some downtime.

We are off next week and off the the Smoky Mountains to enjoy some of God's beautiful color He paints over the mountains!  Happy Fall!!