Weeks 11 & 12

Some of our accomplishments this week:

Reading & Writing

• Finished Sign of the Beaver
• Started The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Evelyn read Meet George Washington, My America: Our Strange New Land
• Quinn read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 39 Clues # 7, Hardy Boys: The Secret Panel (again)
• Leah completed a couple of pages in Get Ready for the Code Book A
• Read several Thanksgiving themed books to Leah
• Evelyn did a few pages in Megawords

Math

• Quinn completed several lessons in 5b
• Evelyn did several review exercises in Singapore Intensive Practice 1b and completed two lessons in 2b
• Leah did some fun sorting exercises in Singapore Earlybird 1a and worked on her abacus games

History

• Read Chapter 10 in The Story of the US
• Placed several of our timeline figures in our timeline book
• Located and colored/added Brazil to our gian wall map as having been acquired by Portugal
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Art

Both Quinn and Evelyn did a few of the Mark Kistler Virtual Art Academoy lessons. Of course Evelyn always doodles half the day anyway



Evelyn's fish



Evelyn's Balloons

Quinn's "Alien Blob"

Finger painting

Field Trips

Our history studies coincided perfectly with Thanksgiving AND with our free passes to Plimouth Plantation. We took friends and had fun.

 

We also made a trip to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. We saw the planetarium show Ice Worlds. Quinn also practiced landing the space shuttle. He gets better every time we go.