Today was our last day of school until 2013...tomorrow there is a School Assembly at HOPAC and Krypto is playing the violin, so we just decided to wrap things up today.
It has been an amazing semester, and as we prayed this morning together, and thanked the Lord for all the things we have learned over the semester I was so overwhelmed at the things the kids remembered, thanked God for, and thought were important too.
Krypto- He has really excelled in Math and Writing this semester. He has taken off with fractions and is 2/3rds of the way through Math-U-See's Epsilon book (equivalent to 5th grade, while he is 4th grade by age.) He went from barely being able to write a paragraph at the beginning of the semester, to writing a History paper and a 10 page short story in the past two months.
Gwangi- He loves Math as well and is almost done with Math-U-See's Beta (equivalent to 2nd grade and he is in 2nd grade), he has 4 more lessons to complete the book and in February will be starting the next book, Gamma! He learned how to write in cursive over this past semester and has such neat handwriting. He will actually copy out sentences in print and then convert them to cursive, for fun! His reading ability has gone off the charts as well. At the beginning of the year he had to read 1 chapter of a Magic Treehouse book each day. Now, he can read one of the books in a day and the other morning, I found him with Caleb's "Redwall" book, and he had read 3 chapters of it before breakfast, by choice.
Sissi- At the beginning of the year, she seemed to know her letters, now she is putting them together and sounding them out, reading things like "Go, Dog, Go" and street signs when we drive on the road and the words to praise music when we're at church. Her handwriting is really neat and she loves to do cutting and pasting and crafts almost every day.
Art, the kids love art. Here we are studying Renoir and working with pastels.
We're using Confessions of a Homeschooler's FREE Artist series. You can find it here - http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2012/09/worlds-greatest-artists-vol-2.html
I love this picture she did of a dolphin.
Working on our vocabulary words for Tapestry.
Building a fort for our "Oregon Trail" studies.
We studied the Human Body this semester with Answers in Genesis...this was our "wrap up" and review activity. I printed all the pieces from Confessions of a Homeschooler. You can see these items here - http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2012/08/life-size-human-anatomy-activity-3.html
Working a bit more on our Body Board.
The completed skeletal system and brain review.
Sissi, helping to put on some of the other parts of our body.
A review sheet that Gwangi and Sissi did for the Oregon Trail.
A game that Gwangi and Krypto made up. They love games, and if I had known I would have brought more, but they were so young when we left... But, it's a good thing, because it makes them use their creativity to come up with new ideas. They used Lego pieces and boards for this one.
We had dinner at a friends' house the other night, and after dinner played Sequence. Krypto loved it and since we don't own it and can't get it here, he made his own version...it's a bit of a smaller board, but it works and we've played it several times.
Working on our math.
More math.
Reviewing all our numbers and letters before we move on next semester.
Our Christmas Tree!
Diagramming sentences with prepositional phrases. Thanks "First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind" for all that I've learned, along with Krypto..this is half way through Level 4.
My middle guy, wanted to read one of his older brother's books, and he really enjoyed it!
Just a few of the books we've read these past two or three weeks.
Thank you Becky for the Gold Gum!
My Secret Sister gift...again...because I just can't get over how much she truly blessed me!
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