Weekly Wrap-up ~ Big and Loud

We are one week away from our Spring Break, not that I am counting the days or anything (8 days, if you are wondering).

I can always tell when we are getting close because we tend to start just a tad bit later in the day and do just a tad bit less than I have planned. In other words, we are just sick of school and ready for the beach.

But we did put in a full week of learning this week despite our desire to just throw our books in the air and start our break early. No. We can't do that. We have to persevere.

We did current events. We did spelling. We did grammar. We did math. We read out of our personal books. We read out loud from McGuffey's. We did copywork. We read a chapter out of The Silver Chair each day. We read about 20 pages from the Diary of a Young Girl each day.

We learned about tidal bulges by watching Explain It: How do the tides work? and Tides and the Moon. We did this little demonstration about them.

Did you know that the highest point on earth is not Mount Everest? It's actually Mount Chimborazo. Read about it.

We learned about the ear canal and how sound waves pass to the brain. Scholastic has a nice little worksheet called Inside the Ear and we watched Ear Anatomy 3D. Then we did a little demonstration. Demonstrations are always a great way to wrap-up learning.

And we watched a video about Auschwitz. Again, difficult stuff to watch, but necessary in our studies on the Holocaust. We have finished up that part of WWII by reading about the liberation from WWII for Kids and are now going to spend a week on the Pacific Theater to prepare for our upcoming trip to the National WWII Museum. I think we tend to associate WWII with Pearl Harbor and then the Holocaust and forget that the war continued after that in the Pacific.

Brynne had Girls on the Run class and Eli had speech therapy. We skipped our enrichment class this week because of a visit with family we had scheduled.

One more week. One more week. We can do it!

2015-2016 Hours Logged - 803 1/4 hours out of 1,000 required hours (250 1/5 hours outside home)
Plus 83 Summer Hours

ABCya

Eli's reading resource teacher shared a website with me yesterday that I would like to pass along. It's called ABCya . There are separate educational sections with fantastic games for ages kindergarten through 5th grade. I browsed the 2nd grade level, and it includes age-appropriate games about Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Geometry, Patterns, Mouse Manipulation, Art and Holiday games. There are lots and lots of fun and creative games for children to play. They are fun, but oh, so educational. Eli's favorite, in his short time playing it, was Create a Car . A lot of the games also have Apps available for purchase (99 cents for most of them) for the iPad and iPhone. I have been looking for another free website for games similar to Starfall , for some time. I think I have found it. I can feel confident having Eli and Brynne play these games.

A Thomas Jefferson Education "This Week in History" ~ Schoolhouse Review

Talk about a GOLD MINE! A Thomas Jefferson Education's This Week in History by Rachel DeMille is her "labor of love" ... and I absolutely LOVE it! " This Week in History is a daily resource that brings your home school or classroom to life." For just $9.99 per month, you can log onto TJEd.com and click the "This Week in History" link to obtain many, many, many resources tied to specific events that occurred in the upcoming week in history. Or even better, you can receive the summaries and links to ALL resources right in your email Inbox each week! It doesn't get any easier than that! What does this really look like in real life? Each week, I receive an email from Rachel DeMille that sets out each date of the coming week. Under the date, there are listed anywhere from one to several events that occurred in history on that date. THEN there are ALL kinds of things to do related to that event, such as books to read, websites to visit, ac

Cells ~ It's What's for Dinner

Dawson made edible cells on Friday. He made an animal cell pizza ... and a plant cell chocolate chip cookie ... He reviewed what he's learned about cells the past two weeks, and I had dinner made by someone else. Win, win!! I am linking up at Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.

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