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| Snapshot Summary, October 17-23 |
We just finished reading Little House in the Big Woods. Even though we haven't reached this period in our history studies yet, I thought I better get started early since we intend to leisurely read the whole Little House series. We will be doing an activity or two when we finish each book.
For finishing The Little House in the Big Woods, we made "thimble" pictures...
on "frosty windows."
I intended to make Molasses candy, but we need snow or at least shaved ice for it, and since our ice shaver is packed, we will have to wait for snow for this.
We completed a page in our postcard-geography album for New Mexico.
To celebrate our learning about this state we enjoyed a Mexican influenced dinner.
Alex worked on physical geography of the Eastern states in geography, read about the pilgrims, worked on his physical science lapbook and wrote about lateral lines on fish in zoology.
Alex worked on physical geography of the Eastern states in geography, read about the pilgrims, worked on his physical science lapbook and wrote about lateral lines on fish in zoology.
We enjoyed Indian Corn Rice Krispie Treats...
and cupcakes for our poetry teatime. We read Poe's The Raven and, later for the older kids the parody, Ravin's of a Piute Poet Poe.
On Tuesday night, Sam and Katie went square dancing. Since they have graduated from the square dancing lessons, they can now come back and be "angels" to help the new students learn.
On Thursday, they went bowling with friends.
I stayed home with Alex as the bowling alley is too noisy for his comfort. He has some sensory sensitivities. This gave me more one-on-one school time with him.
On Saturday Katie and Sam went with a bunch of other teens to a corn maze and on Sunday we went to the Pumpkin Patch. (see below).
Quentin drew a spider for his nature study journal. He worked on addition and subtraction. We also learned about the British in India and completed a map for it. Sam worked on pronouns in Latin, sentence practice in Greek and some map work in geography. He read about George Washington's childhood and about Daniel Boone. He worked on solution statements and solution sets in algebra and simple apprehension in logic, which leads to...
Our Favorite Resource This Week
Traditional Logic (grades 7 and up) is the beginning book of a course in classical syllogism. It goes into the theory of knowledge, logical statements, how propositions can be opposed, how they can be equivalent and the rules for the validity of syllogisms. It is Christian based and uses some Christian statements as examples for how to logical support the arguments. It is excellent for giving the student a way of organizing thoughts in a logical manner which helps when later writing essays.
What we are Reading This Week
We are on to the second book in the Little House series.
Sam is reading Flatland, which is a novel that combines philosophy, geometry and satire (of the class distinctions of Victorian England.)
Weekend Snapshots
Minature Golf
Teen Flashlight Corn Maze
Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
It was interesting that they each picked out a different kind of pumpkin.
Lots of fruits and vegetables to look at...and even apple cider slushies.
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| Quentin's sketch of Josh and the Big Wall. |
Quentin and James have been fun drawing scenes from Veggies Tales from the drawing tutorials at the end of the CD's. I was pleasantly surprised how well they did.
Since Steven is able to drive (although he still has to use crutches to walk), we have been getting out of the house more and seeing friends.On Tuesday night, Sam and Katie went square dancing. Since they have graduated from the square dancing lessons, they can now come back and be "angels" to help the new students learn.
On Saturday Katie and Sam went with a bunch of other teens to a corn maze and on Sunday we went to the Pumpkin Patch. (see below).
Our Favorite Resource This Week
What we are Reading This Week
Weekend Snapshots
Don't forget to take time to smell the flowers.
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| The White Hart |
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