Journey to Excellence

This week was kind of a blur .. just trudging along trying to get done what we need to get done. Brynne did finish her alphabet study and she was thrilled! Each week she did a tracer page, made a mini-book, did a word search for her letter-of-the-week, and read four books about the letter. She completed "Z" this week. We finished up our Princess study and concentrated on 1 Peter 2:9 and Psalm 45:13, the fact that she is a common girl chosen by God to be His princess. We read the scriptures and she copied them. We also correlated the importance of taking our role as princess seriously, just like the new Princess Catherine has to take her role as princess seriously. Here is my favorite princess. Speaking of favorites, here is a picture of Dawson's favorite homeschool lunch: garden vegetable Ritz crackers, sliced mozzarella cheese and pepperonis. With studying the Italian Renaissance , we continued to discuss the artists of that time, and read more of I, Juan d...

Today we took a 'school away from home day' and went to Philbrook Museum in Tulsa. We love this museum. Not only is it beautiful, but it has great works of art. It's one of Dawson's favorite places to go. He is studying the Italian Renaissance, so we made sure to stop by the Italian painting and portrait wing. Beautiful art! We spent the most of our time in the gardens though. Breathless! We also purchased our family zoo passes for the year, while we were out, and had lunch at iconic Hideaway Pizza. Yum!!! It was such a great day!

Two more weeks! Two more weeks! I can't believe we only have two more weeks! A full school year has gone by. Unbelieveable! Although we definitely feel as though we are winding down, there are still some things to get accomplished in the next two weeks. This past week was a good one. Brynne ~ 1st Grade Brynne spent her week learning about The Royal Family . She has really enjoyed this little mini-unit. We started our week having tea time . We broke out the china and sat on our back patio for a "spot of tea". She even convinced Dawson to join us, something he thought he would "never do". We took a picture walk through some books about Queen Elizabeth and Prince William. Then we made a picture family tree so that she could see the lineage and try to understand how one becomes King or Queen in England. The visual was very helpful to her! For fun we also did a family tree of our family and pretended that her grandma was the Queen. She saw that ...