Our Week

We had a nice week. Monday, we attended our usual piano and karate lessons then I registered my youngest twin son for drum lessons. On Tuesday, we had guitar lessons. Wednesday was Bible study and Thursday was ballet and tap day. In between all of the lessons, we made a grocery store trip and a few other errands but we had a nice week of learning. I have to mention that my oldest son attended his college classes this week and has been doing really well also. I'm proud of him and I'm really proud of my gang pitching in around the house. My younger sons are really growing up and have been helping with dinner and laundry. It's been great not having to stand over them while in the kitchen. Now I can just supervise from afar and assist them with a few recipe calculations as needed. We are shopping for new flooring so that has been a wonderful math lesson for them also. We also learned...

.. about the life of scientist and philosopher, Aristotle, in science.
We learned about observation and sketched the details of both sides of a nickel.In following her interest, my preschooler learned about Tigers.
In art, my gang learned how to draw the "eye" from a side profile as the Ancient Egyptians created in their wall murals. We also created hieroglyphic codes and traded them amongst each other to decipher. My preschooler created some fancy watercolors...a rainbow and a little girl.
In math, we are moving along in Teaching Textbooks.
My preschooler completed some math games and some fun with letters on the computer.We are reading literature books based on Ancient Egypt and some other books of their choice.

My preschooler has been learning letters at her own pace. We have read lots of books this week. She devours books and loves to pretend to read if I'm not reading to her. She is also dressing herself. I wish they could stay babies forever!
In grammar and writing, we learned about compound predicates and subjects and complex sentence structure. We started another lesson in Simply Spelling but will complete it next week.

In Bible and history, we reviewed the flood, Noah and his descendants, Tower of Babel, Sumerians and Chaldeans then created a note-booking page to narrate the events. Last month, we were off a few weeks due to several family events (sickies and surgeries) so we reviewed old topics to make fresh in prep for the upcoming new.
We didn't listen to any composers this week nor did we complete a new vocabulary card but overall, it was a wonderful week.