Week in Review, Sep. 8-12

We had another good week. Here's what we accomplished:

TOGETHER: History was about the Celts, the first known people in England. Did you know they used to paint themselves blue before battle? Weird. We read a chapter out of our history book and made our own Celtic double-edged war axes out of cardboard, foil and twine (they were COOL). We also read an old Celtic tale, Finn MacCoul. For science we learned about buffalo, both the Asian and African versions and our own American bison.

Ammon: Week 6 and 7 in math, cursive writing, grammar lessons 3 and 4 (plus lesson 2 in writing letters), reading and spelling.

Ben: Week 2 in math, grammar lessons 3-5, reading and spelling (another 100%!), and he wrote and illustrated a story about blue people who like hot dogs, standing on their heads and the color yellow.

Daniel: Practiced writing the alphabet, dictated and illustrated a story about blue people who had lava that came out of their feet, and read books with Mom.

Elizabeth: Also wrote and illustrated a story about blue lava people. Read books with Mom, too.

Grace: Worked on her hands and knees (i.e. she's learning to crawl)!