We finished up week 13! I am mostly going to post highlights since I have not yet re-done my weekly report form that disappeared last week somewhere in cyberspace.
Miranda-7th grade:
I have mentioned that Miranda has not been enjoying the business math she has been learning. Over the weekend, I made a new binder for her and titled it "Boutique Math." I took the same problems from her book and re-worded them so they would relate to one of her favorite activities: shopping! In the first portion of her book was the "Shopping" section. She figured out sales, percents, and savings. In the second portion was the "Selling" section. She named her new boutique and had to figure cost of items, overhead, profit and loss. She really enjoyed this waaay more than her usual math. I made sketches of dresses and jewelry items to add some colorful graphics.
She continued on in all of her language arts.
We began our first week of Mystery of History Volume 3. Our first three lessons were: The War of Roses; Cosimo de Medici, and Ferdinand V and Isabella I.. We are so loving this volume so far!
Last Friday to wrap up her volume 2, she served us a Middle Ages Dinner.
We had to do this the easy way because we had errands and one child had an eye appointment but she really wanted to do this. Be encouraged that this can be pulled off even if the timing isn't perfect! :)
For our meal we had chicken quarters (we called it pheasant). We cooked those in the slow-cooker for 4 hours then popped them in the oven for 20 minutes to brown. Also, a dish of cabbage and onions, brown bread (I purchased this and they hated it-I had to eat most of it) and blocks of cheese. For wassail we did a simple apple juice warmed up with cinnamon and apple pie spices. We turned off the lights, lit candles and enjoyed trying to eat everything with our fingers (we wimped out and wound up using forks). It was a lot of fun and it is nice that theme dinners can be kept simple and still be enjoyed. Our plans to dress up went out the window because by the time we arrived home the kids were too hungry to care what they had on!
Levi and Maya-4th and 2nd grade
They both covered all of their main courses and Levi wrote another report: this time the subject was tiger sharks. This is a big accomplishment for him and he is enjoying it. We finished their 1st quarter of Mystery of History Volume 1 with these lessons: The Trojan Horse, Naomi and Ruth , and Gideon. For a review I made them a timeline game which they enjoyed. You can read more about it here if you would like: History Timeline Game.
We also got a brief start on our Weather Unit study by studying the different layers of the atmosphere. They started on this layered poster and will add to it. They are memorizing the different layers.
We had a good week and are very much looking forward to next week. We'll school for three days then enjoy our Thanksgiving.
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