'12/13 Week 38 Day 1

Last week of school. It is going to be a rather intense one because I did decide to combine two-three days and do two days' worth of assignments in one day (which is really not a lot if I leave all of my own additions out). Like today, in some subjects we covered two days' material and still got done in good time. No lallygagging though. :o)

Also, today we read last chapters of a couple of books (like Andrew's poetry book) that we have been reading bit by bit since August. It is kind of sad. 

And I totally take back any doubts I had about "Detectives in Togas". Andrew declared it his favorite book (just like all the others we have read). I am not going as deep into this book as we did with Mr. Popper's Penguins, but 'Detectives' is a good book to learn about the characters. We have seven boys as main characters, each with a different personality. As we read (and we will be reading the book for a while still), I would like to focus on discovering bits and pieces about the boys' characters. Andrew helped me make a chart ready for this study. He himself would loved to be one of the boys, I am sure of it - full of mischief like he is.

I photocopied the pictures of the characters from the book and Andrew helped me set up a chart for a character study.

Boys, be ready! Here we come.

Saara reviewing her knowledge in math.