MFW Exploration to 1850 WEEK 26: Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, Myriapods, mollusks, cnidarians

Bible

This week was revision week. We revised chapters 1-3 and the older kids did Boy Have I Got Problems for Chapter Three. Since we are memorizing from NLT, I realized that by letting them do "Boy" AFTER we are done with memorization is less confusing.

We have been spending a lot of time on this and I realized it was so worth it!

History

We learnt about the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark.

We researched on Thomas Jefferson.

It was fun doing the compass activity with the kids.

We continued on William Carey. And the kids were getting a bit worried for him. =)

Language

We continued with Spelling power and Rod and Staff.

Science

This week we learnt about

myriapods, mollusks, and cnidarians.

Big Sis took out her shell collection and we had a good look at them.

Art

We are using Artistic Pursuits K-3 (Book 2) this year.

For art, we did masking tape over watercolors. It was real fun!

Book Basket

Books we read for leisure

Big Bro

Big Sis

Lil Sis

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