First Week Of Fall Peek At Our Week 3

       This was the first day of Fall so we celebrated with an apple bar! Apple cider and apples to dip and mini apple pies! I also made apple cider bread but before I got a pic of it the kids had it almost gone so apparently it was pretty good!

Peek At Our Week 3!!!

     Seems like between hurricanes and sick kids it has taken forever to get to week 3! Skyler has gotten to start using CTC math this week which she is truly enjoying and Fox finally got around to his Milestones In Science basket. He had a blast!! He took great joy in learning about lenses and how to start a fire with one using only the sun! He also enjoyed making a pinhole camera as well. 

A Peek At Our Week 3 2016-2017

Fox has finally finished the Roller Coaster book and model. He has made it clear he will not use paper building projects again.

No matter what we did it continued getting stuck right here. He was pretty bummed.

Skyler has big cat day on Wednesday and this week it was leopards. I love them myself so I had to read and watch the Big Cat Diaries with her!!

Damian starting using the Chem 101 DVD program this week to go along with his science. He is doing it not happily but doing it!

Fox is starting a Lego book about building and different types of machines. He really was pretty happy about it, of course he would be thrilled with alphabet blocks as long as they aren't made of paper at this point! It was a fairly calm week all in all. Damian didn't get to any of his cooking projects so those are saved for next week.

MAM Monday

Our Monday was fun fun!!! We have finally finished the See The Light Sunflowers project this week. I don't say that as in a finally finished OMGOSH so glad it is over kinda way either. It was a really cool lesson, the kids learned quite a bit and the finished product is all kinds of adorable!!!

I will state right here and now that I am totally in love with Damians project!! He did amazing. The two years he had spent in school I was under the impression he had art. I was informed lately that he didn't. Just another notch on why i will never trust schools again! We have always done some type of art here. Crafts, making stuff or something or another has always been done. The younger two had atelier art last year, but not Damian as he was in school so again very proud of his work!!!

Not quite sure what was going on with Fox but he decided that his shirt needed to be a cape during our math game today!!

We are still using the math quiz game show but I have switched out the cards to be all money from another game I own. On paper the kids can add, subtract, multiply and divide money, it is the real life skills I am looking to improve right now. The counting back change, figuring tax etc.

This week Skyler is the game winner!!!!


They also started working through Dyslexic games series c book 6 which is math art and logic. We are mostly concentrating on the math stuff for that.

We also worked on another project from our Homeschool In The Woods composers, this week it was a timeline.

We ended our Monday with two under the blanket!! Doesn't everyone end their days like this?????

Wordless Wednesday

Week 3 The Fun Week!!!!

This will be our fun week! We are doing the Amanda Bennet Download and Go Pizza Study,  and science. This week in our science it is all about the muscles. So onto Pizza Week and Italy!!

                                                Gotta add some math with pizza!!

They started off with their science by watching The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles. They still like these videos so if they are learning who cares? They even still snuggle up just like when they were so small.

Then onto Italy where we learn all about Italy and its people and pizza of course.

                                                        LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!

They learned a lot about the history of Pizza today and Naples, Italy.  They also studied Marco Polo and really enjoyed learning about ancient China. Before our lunch we had to break for some baby squirrel care.

Fox is really good about remembering to care for the little guy. For our lunch today Little Caesars Pizza of course!!

 

On Tuesday it was more Italy, pizza and muscles! We studied daVinci and Rome the kids like learning about Rome. They also drew like the Mona Lisa LOL! Drawing is not their strong points!

 

We also used an Italy drawing book and drew the country.

For lunch it was big bagel bites as Fox calls them.

By Wednesday I was kinda tired of pizza but that's OK they are having fun and learning so it is all good. We learned about the muscles in our faces and did some funny face workouts!

We also made candy pizza and they loved it! I am not a big candy person bu it was good and even my parents liked it.

Sugar cookie crust

Look at that Hershey Special Dark pudding! It was so yummy!

There's Fox breaking up some Hershey Bar topping.

Don't that look good? For actual food we had pizza balls

I think besides the rolling out biscuits she enjoyed eating the cheese most of all!.

 The amazing library lady gave Skyler an Italian music CD and she loves it. We are always listening to it. They also learned about Venice and Vivaldi she likes his music too! They also drew gondolas.

Come Thursday they studied yeast, mozzarella cheese, Pisa and Galileo. They liked learning about the Leaning Tower of Pisa and his experiments with gravity. It was pretty neat that Fox remembered learning about him last year when we did some physics activities.

What don't you have rats join you for school while your snuggled in your blanket wearing pj's? We also did a lot with fractions today.

For lunch we had some little frozen pizzas LOL! We were suppose to do an experiment with yeast but I was out so we will make that up tomorrow!


Sadly due to a tendon issue and an all day affair with a doctor office and a hospital school was cancelled on Friday. This is OK as we can make up on Sunday!!

Yep, mean mom! I did make it up on Sunday!

But we did have a make your own pizza lunch party and a fruit pizza for treat.

 

We even made a small Hawaiian pizza, Devlin and Fox would have none of that!

Strawberry fruit glaze for our pizza sauce it was good!

And here they are enjoying their lunches. They all just put cheese on their pizzas :(

After lunch we watched The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top about volcanoes. Of course we had to have our own and Fox had to have dinosaurs get lava spilled on them!

We then did the experiment about yeast and they had to use their new magnifier.

Well that was our week and it was great! Amanda Bennet really combined every subject around a pizza theme and I think my kids will remember it forever. We also read a ton of books that they really liked, some for fun and some for learning. All in all GREAT WEEK!!!! If you would like to see all the other pictures you can go here