Week In Review, Sep. 15-19

Sorry it's a bit late, but here's what we accomplished last week in our homeschool.

AMMON-attended his Lego, Science, PE, Painting/Drawing and Ceramics classes at the coop. (See previous two posts about these classes.) He finished two more weeks worth of math (lessons 8 and 9) and two grammar lessons. And he read a few books. We started reading Norton Juster's The Phantom Toolbooth together (Mom's reading it outloud to us boys).

BEN-attended his Lego, Toy-Making, PE, Ceramics and Hands-On Math classes at the coop. He completed week 3 in math and also read on his own.

DANIEL-attending his Lego, Toy-Making and Ceramics classes at the coop. He also started working on his ABC book. He has a page for each letter of the alphabet and he picks pictures out of magazines that begin with the letter and pastes them into his book. So far he is filling the letter pages in at random while working on the sounds each letter makes.

ELIZABETH-more painting. She also worked on her shapes and colors with Mom and went to story time at the coop.

GRACE-worked on figuring out how to crawl some more. That's all she ever does, except eat our homework when we leave it on the floor.

TOGETHER-we learned about when Christianity came to England and learned about the monasteries there. We made our own illuminations (the brightly colored pictures the monks made in the books they copied). When Mom gets the camera working again we'll try to take pictures of these cool things. We also learned about Giraffes for science. Did you know that a giraffe NEVER takes a bath for its whole life? Mom said "Ewww!" but Ben said "Giraffes are so lucky!"