Week 3

          What a week!  It was short, but sweet and jam packed!

We took off Monday for Labor Day, and Friday we start our Homeschool Co-op for the year.

We began our week with a treasure hunt using a treasure map!

I got up in the morning and hid treasure for the kids to find, each in a different spot throughout our neighborhood.  I had made up some maps, and they each had one, except Luca and Gianna shared one.

So we set off to find the treasure...

Luca & Gianna finding their treasure

Sofia next...

Sofia finding her treasure

Bella was last and farthest away...

Bella finding her treasure

What WAS  the treasure??


BOOKS!!!

Usborne's Sticker Dolly Dressing Popstars, Usborne's Sticker Dolly Dressing Movie Stars, Usborne's Gulliver's Travels book and CD, and Babybug.

After that, it was a little hard to focus on schoolwork!  But, at least they learned how to read a map key, and follow a map. 

We are studying the USA this week and next, too, I believe.  So, we had a Native American art project from Global Arts.   The Sioux Indians would draw pictures of events past on circles of rawhide and tie them to strings hanging from sticks to make Coup Sticks. These were useful for storytelling.

Gigi was happy to just use her face as a canvas for stickers instead!

She just loves our native American song for the week from Wee Sing Around the World <---click here for a sample, it's #3.

We added to our Geography Cards slide show, just click on the tab above to view those. 

Also, we are learning about Christian Hero's in a book; Hero Tales. This week's hero: Dwight L. Moody.

We're studying the different types of forests and waiting on some books from the library for tree identification for the leaves we collected.

I am writing this on Thursday, and Co-op is tomorrow, YAY!  So I have nothing to report on that, yet.  We are all looking forward to the classes this year.  I do hope we can find a good dependable, affordable van so we don't have to borrow again this year.  Prayers, please!!!

 It was a fun week, but I am glad it's almost over!  Hope you all have a blessed weekend!