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  HISTORY This week we learnt about Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, and King Philip's War. The girls did a notebook page on Louis XIV. And we did a dictation paragraph on Frederick the Great for the notebook page. We also watched the video for the Middle Colonies. We started Amos Fortune as well. Chinese We are using stories from Little Fox Chinese. And I make games, worksheets, etc from the stories for them. SCIENCE For Science we learnt about leaves and classifying them. Baby Sis will do some notebook pages this week about them. Last week she made a notebook page on Plants Classification. We tried to do the leaf skeleton experiment. Didn't work. 9th GRADE Many people were not able to get this book, so we are thankful our library has it. Big Sis learnt about South America this week. And she made Brigadeiros . So delicious. 11th GRADE Big Bro at lunch: "Do you know I have to read a whole chapter on hanging??" er... ~Killing England, for American History Year 1. OTHER ...

  This was the windmill Lil Sis didn't finish last week for New Netherlands. I started a new notebook page for the girls. To put in the kings in charge during the time of each colony. They continued to do their colony pages. This is how I teach the history. Sometimes I read straight out of the books. Most of the time I summarize and I will use a powerpoint presentation with pictures for them. It makes more sense. We learnt about King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and the fire in London this week. Also we learnt about the Carolinas and Maryland colonies. Science We had our 2nd co-op. These were the notebook pages Baby Sis did for last week. When we went for a walk, we found a vascular plant. And Lil Sis made a crystal model for her Earth Science class (that she is independently doing) Bible For bible, I am using the materials from Bible Study Fellowship . Big Bro uses the adult, Big Sis and Lil Sis use the oldest kid and Baby Sis the younger kid. They are pretty good mater...

  History We learnt about the New Netherlands (New York Colony) this week and Baby Sis drew a windmill. Lil Sis was going to make a model and I'm waiting for her to be done. For Earth Science, Lil Sis learnt about rocks and we got this set of rock collection for observation. It was a fun unit! We also started our very first co-op for Botany. I cannot believe I didn't take ANY picture. We are almost done with "Almost Home"! 9th Grade Big Sis had quite a bit of stuff this week! She learnt about Canada. I love her drawing of Anne of Green Gables. Because of the 50 cities book, she borrowed this one and it's as pretty! She love all the map exercises! And she made an AMAZING dinner of maple pulled pork with home-made buns and maple coleslaw! Chemistry: Some fun experiments this week: microwave wavelength wavelength of different chemicals: Salt (normal), Cupric Sulphate (the green one) and Strontium Chloride (red one) 11th Grade Big Bro did another practice SAT test th...