Our Weekly Wrap Up

We have had another great week filled with math, history, science, poetry, grammar,geography playing outside in between the rain showers, and chess club.

Jacob started his new Life of Fred book , and he loves it as much as the first one. Ashlynn is doing really well with her Saxon math. She had a test on Thursday and didn't miss a single problem. She had a really tough time learning long division in January. I am so grateful that she is doing well now.

I love studying history with Jacob and Ashlynn. This week we learned about the start of communism in China. It was very fascinating to read about.

We started a new poetry book, Poetry For Young People William Butler Yeats, for us to read together. Jacob also read the poem The Leprechaun by William Allingham on his own. He loved it so much that he did a drawing of a leprechaun based on the poet's description.

 

 

I decided to plan 2 field trips for us this month. In 2 weeks we are going to our local newspaper to see the printing process, and to have a look around the different departments. In three weeks we are going to a youth symphony concert.

I gave Jacob and Ashlynn a school assignment for the weekend. They have to pick 1 thing that each of them would like to learn about. In April we are going to do 2 week long unit studies on the subjects they choose. Ashlynn picked the stock market right away. I can hardly wait for the fun activities that we will do that week!

If you pray, please pray for the people in Chile who were effected by the earthquake their this morning, and for the safety of the people in Hawaii who are under a tsunami advisory.