Flags & Heels & a New Pet!

Last week Jayden started flag football. He is soooo excited!!

According to him, Jayden plans on teaching me "techniques" to help me with my game. 

And this little girl's dreams finally came true! She is taking a ballet/tap class.

Unfortunately her class is upstairs, in a room that parents can only view through a camera (set up on a television screen). I heard nothing except the sound of metal tapping on the floor, and could not get any good pictures of her during dance. When I asked her what her favorite part was she said "Everything! Especially the heels on my tap shoes!"

One of our favorite parts of last week was adding this little guy, Max, to our family!

He was a little shy at first, but made he made himself quite comfortable within a few hours! 

Math, LA, & DIY

This week Jayden has been learning how to multiply with more than one digit on top and bottom.

For some reason he was so excited to learn it.

Cait has mastered her +0 facts, +1 facts, and doubles facts (up to 10 + 10). She also learned to identify ordinal position to twelfth and can determine elapsed time (by one hour).

We borrowed the audio book of The Mysterious Benedict Society to help us along on car rides. It is an extremely long book, so the audio book has helped us a lot!

This week we reviewed capital letters, question marks, and exclamation points.

We also went over compound words & pronouns.

And finally, we had co-op day. Our theme was "Games". A few of us worked together to cut out interesting pictures from nature magazines. We then pasted them on card stock to make an "I Spy" game. 

Geography- Connecticut

We are working our way through the United States with Road Trip USA. The first region we are working on in is the Northeast region. Our first state is Connecticut. Jayden started us off by locating it on our wall map.

Then we moved on to our US Atlas. 

 

Caitlin used the coordinates on the grid to locate Hartford, CT.  

We read a few sections of this book about the lifestyle of people during Colonial Times, including food they ate (corn, beans, pumpkin, squash, porridge, etc), clothes they wore (handmade clothing), and what life was like for children. Children were meant to be silent and still. Girls went to school until they could read and write, while boys continued on to a higher education. By 11 boys that weren't from wealthy families often went to work instead of college.

Some other things we learned this week include:

State Bird: American Robin
State Fish: American Shad
State Flower: Mountain Laurel
State Insect: Praying Mantis
State Abbreviation: CT
State Capital: Hartford

Finally, after coloring in their Connecticut worksheet, the kids made a praying mantis craft. 

Moving on to Delaware next week!

Karate Stripes, Pool Party, & Tie Dye!

Last week brought new stripes on the kids' karate belts. Their Sensei believes they will be ready for a belt test at the end of the month!

A fellow homeschooling mama hosted a "Not Back to School" party with over 55 homeschooling members. We joined for a short while and the kids had a lot of fun.

Towards the end of the week our co-op class met up once again. The kids were super happy to see their friends from this class again.

The kids had a tattoo station and were all "inked" up for our project. 

The project for the week was tie dying tshirts!

 

Stay tuned for their finished product! ;)