13/14 Week 16 Day 1

After two weeks of tons of activities, visits with friends, good food, and festivities we are finally back to school work. Our first day was intense. We had to cover a lot of material and to make it more fun and colorful, we sat in front of the computer a good portion of the day (on and off) looking at videos or images. Like in Andrew's history class, we studied the Gothic architecture and looked at a lot of cathedrals and gargoyles and flying buttresses, etc. Of course, we could not by-pass "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Fits perfectly into the Gothic theme.

Calendars. A new thing we started this year - at the beginning of every school week, we 'synchronize' our calendars. We look at the week ahead and see what holidays or birthdays or events will take place in the coming week. We will have a choir practice coming up.

Bible. The anointing of David.

The soaking of David.

Geography. Coloring (naming the countries) the map.

Saara's Science. Lots of  'awws!' and 'yikes!' from both of them as they were watching a video about insects.