A large family, homeschooling, adoption, special needs, whatever strikes my fancy, sort of blog.

A large family, homeschooling, adoption, special needs, whatever strikes my fancy, sort of blog.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Our Homeschool Week


Has another week gone by already?  I don't feel like I've gotten a week's worth of stuff done!  Maybe it's all the Christmas prep I'm trying to get done.



We read about the amazing mosaics of the Byzantine Empire, and finished the box of mosaics that we started earlier in the year.


Jack's was appropriate, because we were recently reading about a scary sea serpent in our Pirates book.


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The ever popular pop beads were requested again this week.  I need to rotate in some of the lesser asked for items, because I think she forgets about them.


The pop beads were also used as a decoration for our felt tree.


Still plugging away at our lovely grammar program.  This week we learned reasons to start a new paragraph.


In our current art program, Drawing Unto Him, we learned about shading.  In one exercise, we practiced several different ways to shade (dots, cross hatch, blending, etc).


On another day, we worked on getting to know our pencils a little bit more, and tried out light, normal, and high pressure lines & squiggles.


This was our last week of co op, boo hoo!  The boys made pastel Christmas trees in art.  We'll miss getting together with our friends every week!


Only one more week of school for Luke, Hannah, Sam, and Brianna.  Which means only one more regular week of school for us, too.  We'll continue to do fun things, but we'll skip the "boring stuff."

This week we hit the year 610 and study the beginnings of Islam.  In science, we'll be hitting germs, and it just so happens that I have a Magic School Bus science kit all about germs, so we'll get that out and see what we can discover.

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6 comments:

  1. It looks like you had a fun week. I noticed your son was wearing a rectangle sticker around his mouth. My sons are goofy like that, too! I like the new design of your blog.

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    1. Goofy is a great word for it, lol. :D

      Thanks! I figure with the red, we're set for Christmas through Valentine's Day. By then I'll be thinking "spring" and want to change it.

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  2. The mosiacs look like fun! I love how the sea serpent turned out. My daughter loves the pop beads. I wish we had a co op here. Looks like you had a fun week!

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    1. I'm bummed our co op is over. But Katie and Hannah are doing a homeschool art class in January and February, so I'll still get to hang out with some of our friends for a few more weeks.

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  3. What a nice week...love the mosaics!

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    1. Thank you! I'm so enjoying having more art and crafts in our homeschool. :)

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