School Week 18

Our last week of school! This week will be doing a Winter lapbook & Study, very similar to the Fall one we did a few months ago. There are three weeks worth of stuff here. We'll be doing week one this week, in January we'll start the year doing week 2 & 3.

We'll be reading an assortment of winter books, and like I said before there is a lot of material here... I have a few Xmas arts & crafts for the kids and X5 will be working on a Xmas lapbook!

Have a wonderful Holiday Season!! See you next year!

1st Week of Advent

This past weekend we celebrated the first week of Advent at our house. The kids got a couple of gifts, because it's so much more fun to get gifts throughout December instead of only on the 25th.
Here's pictures of the kids and their gifts!






After we ate and opened presents the kids went outside to play in the snow! They got all bundled up but the weather was not that cold...around 38 degrees.



Here is one last picture of A7 sitting on her new desk, now she gets to draw, read and write in her own desk!! She loves it, that is my old desk lamp. Nice to know it still works! I've been looking for a desk for her for a while now, her room is very small and the desk needed to be just the right dimensions. Luckily I found this one online at Walmart.com. Very inexpensive... great timing. Technically this is not a Xmas gift but it came on Friday so we made her wait one day to open it!!

School Week 16 & 17

This post is really late but I've been too busy to blog about anything..okay on Week 16 we rowed the book Tree of Cranes. We loved this book, it is set in Japan and gave us a look at how Christmas is celebrated there. Wonderful story!

Geography & Culture: Japan
Science: common cold
Language arts: copy work, Japanese writing, Japanese legends
Art: origami

Who knew KFC was so popular in Japan this time of year!!!!


Week 17! Christmas in the Big Woods. I found a lapbook for this book which is the only reason we are rowing it. It's a very simple book but the kids get to see how Christmas was celebrate long ago. I love the Little House series, it's a wonderful introduction to the chapter books, which we'll be reading next semester!

There are all sorts of lessons in this lapbook!
Geography: Wisconsin
Science: what is your house made out of?
Language arts: copy work
and many more....

Next week is our last week of school for the year. The kids are all caught up in math and handwriting! Next semester we are starting some new things and it was important to get everything else done that way we can start the new stuff right away!

A7 will be starting MUS Beta! as well as Spelling! X5 will continue doing the code primers and will be starting book C sometime in the coming semester!