Week In Review

Just dropping off a few pictures of our homeschooling days.  It is hard for me to have very many pictures because I have a certain 3 year old who freaks out if he sees my phone and I don't give it to him to play games on.  :)

We finished up our studies of Ancient Egypt.  We did a lot of fun stuff, but the only thing I managed to photograph was using sugar cubes to build pyramids.

We also built the Nile river in a container and flooded it periodically to see if we could get grass to grow (we could not, but with my black thumb, this is no surprise).  We talked about canopic jars, made scented oils, and went and looked at the mummies at the musuem.  A good little unit!  

I started doing Matthew's reading lessons a little differently.  He gets bogged down with work on paper, so we've been doing reading on various other surfaces.  After I got tired of using the whiteboard, I decided to draw on our glass table with paper taped underneath.  Worked really well, and he was thrilled to be able to write on a generally forbidden surface!   

We are working on memorizing some basic math facts in our math lessons, so we have been playing lots of games to get in a bunch of practice.  Here's a mama-created game where the dice says +1, +2, etc. so that the kids have to add to the number they're on and get to the end.  With some fun additional rules (you get sent to the start again if someone lands on the space you're occupying), this game lasted quite a while and kept their attention.  And even the littlest one joined in.  

All in all a good week.  This week we're moving on to study Jewish people (time of King David-ish), hopefully we'll get a good handle on those math facts, and we'll make some good progress with our reading.