Home-SU-Cool

  We are DONE!!!!!! Well, the next two weeks the girls are going to do English, Math, and perhaps read. Big Sis will finish up her Algebra I and Biology. So proud of all the work the girls have done this year. And I'm very pleased with how we used lapbooks this year as well. I think it really helps with keeping memories and retention. We finished the last big of mapwork this week and compiled our lapbooks. On the side note, our library reopened for to-go service and we are so so excited. Time to get REAL books!

 This is how we did SAT prep for the firstborn. He went through the whole book. But the information was really hard to stick! So he did the first practice test. Then we are going through the test together a few questions at a time. Next he will be using Khan Academy t o practice. He will do the diagnostic tests (there are 8) on the site and do 15 mins practice everyday. That will be about 10 questions. Maybe the next half year he will increase to 20-30 mins? He will review the strategies from the Princeton book regularly. Every two months he will do a full length practice test and go through the questions. He has a year and hopefully this will give him enough practice. 

 Week 33???? Wow! For history, we are learning about the North American Indigenous people. We went by regions. and did this lapbook component. So sad my printing came out bad. We finished up out Astronomy Lapbook! So proud of their work! We are going on a vacation next week and we'll come back to finish up the last week of official school, then they will do more English and Math (and Biology for Big Sis) for two more weeks before summer! Woo-hoo!! On a side note. This is so important. Mom's time with God. To take in nourishment. To rest. To talk to God. To listen. I am thankful for times of communing with my Savior.

 Wow! We're on the homestretch! After this week we will take a week's vacation and then we will be left with one week of history, and two easy weeks. This week we focused on the artists of the Renaissance. Beginning with Shakespeare. I made this globe theatre using the materials here  and I would not have been able to do this model without the instructions here . I put a toothpick as reference. This is a minute model! =) The girls found information about Shakespeare from here , wrote 4-5 interesting/important facts about him, and formulated these paragraphs. Then I asked them to do dress-up/openers. This is an IEW way of teaching structure and style in writing. I really like it. Then we searched up on his plays. We then learnt about Leonardo Da Vinci (and Michelangelo) through some reading and videos. This is about Da Vinci. Lastly we did a lapbook on the different events of the Renaissance. By the way, here is where I got the lapbook components. Science This is our last module