Home Schooling Summary for this week

More fun with the cousins.  This week we had a very rainy day and did some "studies" on rain and what it is made out of as well as the water cycle.

Examining the rain drops that we caught outside

Experimenting with the properties of water

Another day we made "wind catchers" which turned out to be just right for playing outside on May Day.

Last week we made these "fossils", but it took awhile for our clay soil to dry out with all the rain that we had. Here are our archaeologists examining their fossils this week.

shell fossil

We also had a field trip for Joy School this week, which I forgot to bring my camera to. So bummed about that!  It was the "Transportation Day Fair" and they had all kinds of vehicles that the kids could climb in.  They had a digger, a fire truck, a moving truck, a limousine, a huge crane, motorcycles, a horse, and a school bus. A. was afraid to climb into some of them, but M. was happy to try them all out. 

Then one more field trip to round off our busy week - we went to a Horse Show!  I am considering taking some riding lessons at this farm and so we wanted to check it out. 

Baby S with his improvised "hat" - I didn't realize that the show would be outside

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading	Letter flash cards	Letter flash cards	X	X	Letter flash cards
Writing	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice
Math	Mazes	X	Connect the number dots	Mazes	X
Science	Rain/water experiments	X	Fossils 2 and wind	X	X
History/Geography	X	X	X	X	X