Homeschool Highlights Week 6

We had a full schedule this week and accomplished a lot in all of our subjects.   In Bible we continued with the Plan A James memory work.  So far, so good!  We are actually keeping up and have memorized through verse 15.  The Teacher's Manual had a neat suggestion to spur the kids on.  We bought a weekly pill box from Walgreen's and filled each day with 3 Skittles -- one for each of the 3 times they review the verses.  It has helped us to keep on top of things.

Our History topics included the founding of the New Amsterdam/New York Colony, tobacco in Virginia and the slave trade, and Angola.  We played 9 pins, a game similar to bowling and a favorite during the colonial era.  We also made butter.

Jacob's Notebooking Page

Shaking up the cream for a LONG time!

We started our new read aloud, Amos Fortune Free Man, but the kids do not want to hear any more of it.  They are very sensitive, and the horrors of slavery just make them upset!  It looks like a great book, though, so I am going to read it myself and give them a synopsis.

Birds were the topic for Science and we learned a great deal.  

Our soda bottle bird feeder.

Building edible nests.

Eating the nests!

Dissecting owl pellets was both fascinating and.....

.....horrifying!

This came with the kit we ordered.

A few of the bones we found.

 

Grace's Notebooking Pages

Our Music appreciation studies included a thrilling recital by Spanish pianist, Daniel del Pino.  He played an entire program of HUGE works, one after the other, with ease.  He was an inspiration to the kids as they practice for their upcoming recital.

Daniel del Pino

Practice, practice, and more practice!

 For Art we concluded our 6-week study of Pieter Breugel.  We did picture studies of a few of his works and the kids have started to put together an album of all of the works we study.

That's our week in a nutshell!  To view other Homeschool Highlights in My Father's World go to Discover Their Gifts.