This has been a very busy and long week in our little world. We are finishing up all of our fall sports and hopefully will be settling down into a home bound season after next week.
We finally finished our fire unit and followed it up with a trip to the station. I will show those in another post. We embarked on high school lapbooking this last week. Honestly they are turning out wonderfully and the boys are learning from them. I will share those when they are completely finished. Nick is doing the Civil War and Aaron is doing the Westward Expansion. Both really big lapbooks with tons of information.
Hali has been working on her di Vinci Lapbook. She is having to draw, color or learn technique in every unit and there are MANY units. Here she is drawing the Louvre where the Mona Lisa is kept. She is using a post card I picked up while I was there for inspiration.
These are some other items she is using for inspiration. We dug through some of my old photos and pulled out a few of our Missions Team standing in front of the Louvre. All the kids that it was cool, so we spent an hour or so looking through all of my photos. They were amazed at the wealth in some of the palace's.
We don't really celebrate Halloween here. Since we have been doing a unit study on animal that have "night eyes" we decided to make our own spiders. They do most of their work at night and sleep during the day. Here are Abby's.
Isn't it so cute?
We are studying Bats, Owls and Koala's now for science.
Aaron is trying to figure out this simple craft.
And then Nick gets in on the action of making holes for the legs.
We had a coloring contest.
Can you guess who's was who's? Hint: Nick gave his to his girlfriend.
We HAD to make some pumpkins since that is what we have been studying. Abby's is the top one and Hali's is the bottom. They used primary shapes to make their characteristics
I love having Abby make this big books. She had read this book a while ago and since the pc's were just laying around we decided to put them to use. We plan to give these to the little girl down the block who just started homeschooling.
The last of our fire unit.
"How my family prepares for winter" ... Abby's answers were "firewood, food, clothes and lanterns". Can you tell my children have had too many midwest ice storms?
A few Autumn worksheets.
Abby has fallen for this game. On Sunday of this last week I was downstairs for several hours preparing for the school week while the kids watched transformers with dad. Abby came down after the move and when she saw all the awesome new stuff in her workboxes she yells "Oh! How cool is all this stuff"... She sat down and did workbox's 1-6 while I finished lesson plans and organizing for the week! I LOVE IT WHEN THEY WANT TO LEARN ON THEIR OWN!
Lastly, these little characters were the highlight of our week. Abby just adores these and they have made learning to read much more fun!
I am trying to put Abby's words in these but I am still off on alignment. Right now we are using the words that came with it.
That about rounds off the week for the new stuff that I took pictures of. Tomorrow we are going to be adding some pumpkin fun to our day and enjoying the apple crisp and apple crumble we made tonight!
