Week In Photos ~ Weeks 20, 21, & 22

Well, I found more photos from week 22!

I am adding them here, at the beginning of this previous post.

Pajama Day!

 We love Mrs. Heather- she is our expert on plants and animals at co-op

 Connection to the winter Olympics at co-op with a little craft below

Emma's

 Sarah Cate's

Loving this "not so freezing cold" weather for recess!

Piano lessons every Tuesday!

A snack and time to chat outside while we wait for dance to start

Math games are always a big hit!

 6th grade science ~ sometimes we like to read behind the sofa

Fresh flowers at the student's desks brighten the last winter days

When Mrs. Dana brought donuts, it was a great treat!

 MOSH field trip for the Roman Exhibit

(See our post on this for more photos, coming soon!)

Co-op: Even dads come in to teach. Here is a dad teaching 

about identifying animals by the tracks they make.

 Nature journals are the perfect place to sketch animal tracks

We are studying paintings by Peter Bruegel (also, Brueghel) the Elder

for our ACP class, as well as studying poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 We love time at the park!

 We came home after co-op and there were 10-15 (or more!)

large birds circling around near our house and near our neighborhood.

I went to get the better camera with a long lens and they were gone.

We have seen quite a few hawks in the past, but this was strange to see 

so many all at once in the same area.

 Weekend visit to our favorite CAG family's house

for ice cream, archery, shooting, and running around!

Thanks for checking in with us!

Week 8 Overview

Well, we are moving right along and getting closer to the end of the first 9 weeks. What? The end of the first 9 weeks already? That's right. We just finished week 8. All of our students have grown so much in just 8 weeks. Here are some things we are studying this week:

Language Arts, Bible, & History:

• We are finishing up our second Ramona chapter book titles Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
• We have finished reading enough different books that we punched all the holes in our reading challenge bookmark! We will celebrate with a special showing of Charlie Brown Halloween next Friday.
• We are up to verse 14 in Psalm 139 for fluency and memorization.
• Finally moving out of the ancient world and into the classical world by jumping into Greek life. Our timeline covers 500 BC to AD 500 for the next several weeks.
• Course is our word winner for vocabulary lesson 4.
• We learned more about the Ten Commandments and the Holy Tent (Exodus & Leviticus)

Math:

• We have moved on from addition fact fluency to multiplication fluency. We are busy memorizing how to skip count by 6s and 9s this week.
• Single digit multiplication and the division facts that go with these expressions.

Science:

• Reptiles and Amphibians: how they move, defend themselves, sound, eat, work together with other animals, and all about their poison

Co-op:

• How to play 9-square in the air in PE
• Our 3rd graders finished their last "backyard ballistics" class by making double barrel rubber band guns from a handful of office supplies
• We had our 2nd week with the baby chicks...they grew so fast!
• It was our last week to study the artist Winslow Homer in ACP and we continued our study of Emily Dickinson

It's the weekend, so everyone enjoy yours! Mrs. Coleman will be celebrating her 43rd birthday! It's going to be a great weekend. :)

Week in Photos ~ Week 2

Mrs. Dix was a treat on Tuesday with our first piano lessons for the year!

 We finished school a little early on Thursday, so we ventured out to the library.

I think we can all guess whose stack is whose.

Back to co-op pool party ~ so glad the weather cooperated. It was a beautiful day!

And, of course, Monday's solar eclipse was an interesting site.