History: Map Work

Each of our chapters in history includes a map. This map shows the many empires and peoples who ruled the Middle East.

Cooper glues down a different color circle to represent each empire.

Silly Putty, Planting, Vivaldi, and Maps

Caleb used his silly putty to cover letters.  

During our lunch break, Cooper and Caleb did some planting.

Another great find! We picked this book (and accompanying cd) up at the library.

We worked on directions in geography. 

School Post-holidays: A brief run down

We've been on a great schedule since the holidays, and school's going incredibly well. Here are a few shots from the past weeks:

A completed activity related to Doctor Desoto:

 Noah worked diligently:

 We're still working with color in art. This week's lesson focused on contrast:

 The British Isles in geography:

 Nick busted out the chalkboards for Greek:

 This is one of our new classroom additions. Subjects for the day are stuck to the piano (I hope to move them to an easel at some point) and removed after completion.

 Moving on to secondary colors in art:

 

Maps and More

Before starting our new lesson on geography, we did a quick review of last week's lesson on the solar system. With no prompts, Noah began singing our solar system song, "Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto...Nine planets revolve around the sun." As an aside, we did talk about Pluto now being considered a dwarf planet, but I didn't think it necessary to change the song.

Our new lesson focused on maps. After a bit of reading, the boys prepared to create a map of our garden. They viewed from above:

and then created a map, complete with a color-coded key:

  

Day 2: Lesson in Chaos Management

I decided to read to the little guys while Cooper finished a review activity. This allowed him some uninterrupted time to work and kept Noah and Caleb content - breakthrough for all of us.

We began studying the universe (think macro, not micro level) yesterday in geography. The boys correctly ordered the planets in our solar system and then worked on a coloring sheet.

Our science lesson today was on animal body parts. After reading and discussing from our textbook, Cooper read a related reader.