September 19-25What did we do this week?
This week was a pretty quiet one for us. Sam went with some friends to
Cherry Crest Adventure Farm.
Quentin's (age 10) map from History Odessey
History: Medieval History: The Barbarian Migrations, pt 1
We are reading
Favorite Norse Myths. We have also read
The Gods of the Teutons,
Nibelungs and
Alaric the Visigoth from
Famous Men of the Middle Ages (Heritage History.) They completed notebook pages on the Visigoths.
World Geography and Culture (World Food Cafe): Mali, West Africa
For our country study of Mali, we made West African Beans and Okra and Sweet Potatoes in a Cayenne, Ginger and Peanut Sauce.
We finished up our study of Hawaii by taking another virtual trip and completed a page in our Squished Penny Geography Album.
Co-op: Art (Drawing) and Leadership/Team-building
We made One-Point Perspective drawings (using
this tutorial from
Hodgepodge) in Art class...
In Team-building, they had to decide as a group 12 things you would take with you off the plane if you crashed near a deserted island. They also did trust-building activities, like the one in the photograph above.
English (The Logic of English)
Phonograms: er, or, ea, sh syllables Spelling Rule:
A E O U usually say their names at the end of a syllable. Grammar: Irregular Plurals, Non-count Nouns
Math (Learn Math Fast)
Borrowing in Subtraction Problems
Reducing Fractions
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