The Final Stretch

...a weekly wrap-up

It has been quite a few weeks around here! I know the days are flying by with me hanging on tightly. After today, we have just two more days of school left.


History Studies: Space Exploration, 1950's-1990's, and Civil Rights

Using The Story of the World, Volume 4, chapters 35 and 36 as a spine book, we have studied Space Exploration, 1960's, and Civil Rights. Some other resources we used were:

• Kennedy Through the Lens, by Martin W. Sandler
• John F. Kennedy and the Stormy Sea, by Howard Goldsmith
• Who Was John F. Kennedy? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Childhood of Famous Americans: Rosa Parks, by Kathleen Kudlinski
• Rosa, by Nikki Giovanni
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Russell Freedman
• Heroes for Civil Rights, by David A. Adler
• Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America, by Kathi Appelt

Geography Studies:
Our youngest son is completing his trip around the world. Pictured above is an art project he did while studying Australia {4}. Next year, my oldest son will complete his own trip around the world. Though his will be more in depth as it will be taught on a high school level.


Spelling:
It is the end of year review for my daughter's spelling course. At the end of the year, we review any words she had difficulty mastering. I retest her on these words. If she is still having difficulty, then we implement a 'right brain' spelling technique I learned last year at a homeschool convention {2}.


New to Our Local Library and Us:

• America the Beautiful: Together We Stand, by Katharine Lee Bates
• Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women, by Kathleen Krull
• Barbed Wire Baseball, by Marissa Moss
• You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! by Jonah Winter and Terry Widener
• White House Kids: The Perks, Pleasures, Problems, and Pitfalls of the Presidents' Children, by Joe Rhatigan

What's Working/Not Working for Us:
Several activities are finishing this week, including...

• soccer {5a and 5b}
• science co-op {3 - my youngest son's model of a nerve cell - idea found here}
• AWANA

With the ending of these activities, the children are having more time to play and explore. One day, I found them all engaged in a two board Monopoly game {1}. For those of you curious, the two boards were a regular Monopoly board and a Littlest Pet Shop Monopoly board. The boys agreed to use the very feminine LPS Monopoly board if the Star Wars figures were the game pieces. To this, the girls agreed, and they all four happily played the game.


A Photo to Share:
Look what we found just beyond our dining room windows...

 

 

Find more weekly wrap-ups at:

Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers

Collage Friday at Homegrown Learners

Homeschool Mother's Journal at iHomeschool Network