Home-SU-Cool

We wrapped up the American Revolution Unit! It was a blast. I really liked using Homeschool in the Woods pack to teach this unit. This was the battle page. Though I don't think the girls will remember all the battles, this visual guide is interesting. This is the timeline they did. We played a review file folder game. I was so surprised at how much they remembered! LOVE the lapbooks done. We are going into the 19th Century next, all the way to 1850. One thing we will do is the states study. Lil Sis chose to do it on paper.   And Baby sis did it digitally. And they made an Amish casserole for PA. YUMMY 9th GRADE Big Sis made Shashuka for Middle East. Yum! And for Science we learnt about mammals.

HISTORY We are nearing the end of the American Revolution study.  This week we learnt about the women who helped in the war. These are fun things we made.  This was a really fun activity. Secret Messages.  And we learnt to make the star in ONE snip! 9th GRADE Big Sis is moving to Central Asia now, but she made the Ukraine Olivye Potato Salad that she didn't get to the week before. SCIENCE We have finished with Botany so now we are moving on the Zoology. First we played a skribbl.io game on animals. It was so fun for the girls. Things we do on zoom co-op. =) We learnt abotu the vertebrates and the girls made models of the backbone.  

  We went through many battles this week. I mean, historical revolutionary battles. Some of them we skimmed through, some of them we watched videos for them. And we talked about Valley Forge, watched a video, and wrote articles on them. I realized that my children are definitely more open to writing if they can type (and do edits) We researched on Baron Von Steuben and John Adams. For Science we finished up Botany with the co-op and will go on to Zoology next week. The girls are excited. Big Sis did some experiment on Chemistry and continued to learn more about Transcarucasia (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) She finished Family Romonov. PREPPER is offically a Pre-K'ler but he might move on quite quickly...yikes.

 This week we learnt about how the British evacuated Boston and independence was declared over America. This Liberty Bell lapbook component was fun! The girls wrote an article in the Daily Bugle. They researched about Thomas Jefferson They researched on Nathan Hale This was an interesting project too. For Science We learnt about stems 9th GRADE 11th GRADE Big Sis did an amazing job on the map quiz of Europe. Big Bro did a wonderful job on his tests too. It was a 100% day. PREPPER We continued to have fun with the Richard Scarry Busy Book Wee Bro was enamored with the 12 days of Christmas song (more like Elmo's version) He is also doing some kumon worksheets He loves numbers and dot to dot worksheets are so fun. In the morning when he wakes, Wee Bro LOVES to do this. =) After our Christmas break he will begin the thematic Pre-K materials I prepared for Baby Sis before. OTHER We made tangyuan for Winter Solstice. (Sticky Rice Balls) And we had Christmas, of course. A LOVELY Christmas...