Weekly Review -- April 24-29, 2011

This week we took it easy. All three of the kids seemed to come down with some sort of cold that resulted in lots of stuffy/runny noses and horrible hacking coughs.  Because of this we just did some math, science and art.   

Everett...

completed 19-21 and quiz 2 in Teaching Textbooks 7. 

Annika...

completed lessons 18-21 in Teaching Textbooks Math 4. 


Lucas...
completed lessons 16-18 in McRuffy Color Math K.  


Science and History

No history again this week.  For science the older kids worked on group 17 of the periodic table. Their elements of focus were Fluorine and Chlorine.  For our first experiment (which I prepped last week) we observed an egg that we'd soaked half of in toothpaste for a week to see what happened to the calcium of it.  The egg didn't look too different, a little brighter white on that half.  Then we soaked the whole egg in vinegar for 10 hours and observed it again.  Well the side that hadn't been stuck in toothpaste for a week got very soft and squishy. The kids thought it was great fun.


Art and Music

I've decided that art needs to be more consistent here and music needs to actually become part of our schooling.  Music will start next week with 9 note recorder and a lapbook study on composers.  This week I finally started the Meet the Masters program that I've had for over a year.  We worked on the Preview unit, which is an overview of what we'll learn.  The kids then made portfolios to keep their finished artwork in.  They really enjoyed it and can't wait for the next lesson.