No.54: Our Farmhouse Schoolhouse in Photos (Week 14)

Another first at the house this week: in the middle of the night, Mark and I woke up to this crazy screaming sound.  Half asleep and disoriented, we couldn’t see anything through our window and were really creeped out.  A little research later and we think it was a fox!  (It sounds like this if you’re curious)  Always learning something new with this country life!

Notes and highlights:

+ We fit in a small review lesson on the solar system this week in M’s science.  He made a replica using a pre-painted solar system kit and practiced the planet’s order using a mnemonic: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos.  We also played a little planet trivia!

+ We are so excited for December and the change of pace.  We’re putting almost everything on hold (except for math, sorry kids) and diving deep into Advent.
+ Day 1: The kids each received a shiny new sketchbook.  The plan is that everyday, they will draw one of the illustrations in that day’s picture book as well as copy a part of the story (sentence or paragraph, depending on age).  Today’s book was Merry Christmas, Strega Nona and the little ones were especially into Strega Nona and Big Anthony.  We made puppets using this coloring page to reenact the story.  We also learned a little about Tomie dePaola and watched a few Youtube videos about him.  We especially loved this one and this one.

Current 1000 Books Project Total: 73/1000
Poetry Teatime Treat: cookie cake for J’s birthday