Week 5 in Review

Well we are into week 5 of our new year, we are in the midst of our Ancient Egypt study and also talking about Moses this week. It is very interesting to talk about Ancient Egypt and Moses at the same time. We are focusing our studies this week in the pyramids and the preparation for the after life that the Egyptians took.

The kids are working on a salt dough map of the Nile delta region. Notice the Queen is having way to much fun while the chef is totally disgusted by the whole thing. I think the wacky prince is thinking up how to smear this all over the queen (SIGH) but he knows better and tries later when there is no proof of his crime


Here is a close up of the map, it is still in its drying phase. We are expert salt dough mappers now! Let's hope I don't get the urge to do this again this year, we are still cleaning up the table boy it was a mess

See enjoying this way too much!!!


OUR CORE WORK

This is the chef math, he is trying to finish up the Delta book so we can move onto Saxon, my kids really need the spiral method in math if not they will total forget everything. Chef had a good week this week, he finished up another CQLA essay and is excited about our co-op starting again.


This is Wacky Prince's essay he is doing really well in his writing, and who said this boy was dysgraphic? Yep the advantage of homeschooling is we waited until he was developmental ready and boy his writing is wonderful. The prince has moved onto Saxon and is doing really well with spiral method. MUS was so boring for him because he just hated studying the same thing almost all year. He also got very frustrated with the MUS videos, especially when a new concept was taught and Demme showed three different ways to solve a type of problem one right after another. It was very annoying and ended up confusing him most times so we had to say good bye to MUS, it was great for a season!


The Queen to be is really doing well last week we had to give the poor girl a meet the "principal"(instead of a meet the maker) speech. She improved her attitude and has had a great week. This is her Bible for one day this week, it is from Bible Explorer series. This is a great series and real dives into the Word, it especially great for kids who have gone to church their whole life and needs an indepth study. The queen is enjoy the calm before the storm, we register for co-op on the 23rd and she will have pre-homework for co-op and that is when she will get busy. She is taking 3 credit classes this year and boy will she have homework. But she will survive-she knows this because I tell her all the time!