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Summer is here!! Here are our plans for this summer. First mommy had to set some ground rules. I think it is always good to start off right. We don't do summer camps. Here are our lofty plans for the warm days. 1. Vacation with family (our annual one) 2. Library Looting Time! We love to be able to READ for fun this summer!!! We use goodreads to track our reading. 3. Cooking I intend to teach the kids more cooking in the summer. One thing I really enjoyed doing this year was to have a child help me at dinner every day. It has been wonderful and I think they have learnt quite a bit of life skills. Big Sis' specialty is now Creme Brulee French Toast. They are SOOOO delicious. Crack about 4-5 eggs. Beat them with about a cup or more of milk and a tsp of vanilla. Melt 1/4 cup butter (or more) and pour into pan. Sprinkle brown sugar and then place bread on top. Pour egg mixture over the bread. Bake at 400 deg for about 10 mins...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks THE LAST WEEK!!! We finished another wonderful year!! And these were the report cards we gave to them. Bible/History We read about Alexander the Great And we revised all the bible memory work (aside from Is 40) Math/Science The kids will finish up 4B (Big Bro) and 2B (Big sis) during summer. After that they will do a few sums a day to resist rusting. =) Language Rod and Staff  Spelling Power for Big Bro Spelling by Sight and Structure for Big Sis (final test) These are our English from the Roots Up Cards. Our kids decided to draw on the cards to remind them about the words. I am very very impressed!! Here are the words we did this year with the Greek root biblos sauros photos graph tele metron tropos philia phobos syn thesis kinesis skopeo logos hydros geo hypnos astron chronos para techne demos polis pathos autos thermos zoon For the summer they will contin...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks Bible/History We read Nehemiah and were very impacted by the fact that Nehemiah had to work hard to rebuild the walls AS WELL as guard against the enemies at the same time! We also learnt about the Olympics and watched many videos on the past Olympic games. We read on the City of Athens and how the Greek lived. Math/Science We have stopped doing Science in the Beginning and will do some of the experiments for Day 6 (the human body ones) for next year. Since we came back from Singapore and the kids did their Math and English work in the morning (jet lag), they have been loving that idea, so when they woke at 6am, they would do their own Math and English work. I still have to look through them and maybe go through some corrections with them in the afternoon, but it sure made our school time MUCH shorter! I was very impressed with their determination and initiative. Language Rod and Staff  Spelling Power for Big Bro ...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks On some days, we relax like this. The gals who surely know how to enjoy life. Bible/History We read Esther, Big Bro's favorite book of the bible (yeah, beats me too). Math/Science I decided to let go of Archimedes. A little too much for our last weeks.Maybe we'll revisit this book the next around. But we did learn a little about streamlined bodies and talked a little about our airplane trip again. Language Rod and Staff  Spelling Power for Big Bro Spelling by Sight and Structure for Big Sis Foreign Language We started  康軒一 下  The kids have forgotten many words!!! We did a lot of revision this week. Art/Music We drew the Greek columns and we saw the Greek columns!! When we went to the Manhattan Library on Sunday. The library was SOOO beautiful. Have you ever wondered? Why did Queen Esther invite the king TWO times for the banquet? Where did the name "Marathon" come fr...

4th/2nd Grade Creation to the Greeks We came home from our two week's vacation to the other side of the earth. We entered into a week-long recuperation and the re-tuning of our circadian clocks. In laymen's terms, we fought jet lag. Though the first few days were dreadful, we fought it rather bravely. God was so gracious to us in giving us a better weather (compared to when we left) and mommy brought everyone out almost everyday. It is fun to go to a playground that was "OURS" since we were the only inhabitants there. =) Bible/History We read about Nebuchadnezzar's pride, the writing on the wall, the lions' den and the fall of the Babylonians to the Persians We also learnt how God used Cyrus as an instrument for the Jews to return to Israel even though he did not know God. We read some Aesop's Fables along with the K week of "fox" We found the fun lapbook pages  here . Math/Science We read the Arc...