Seeking Simplicity

Thought I'd catch you up on what we've been up to for school lately.

A couple of weeks ago, we had Beyond Five in a Row Camp!  We read Homer Price and learned all kinds of things and did a few activities, too.  I simply took the manual and picked out the topics we were most interested in, gathered my materials and we started off on our adventure.

I have a pretty good collection of Reminisce magazines, so I was able to find a few articles about early radio, television, and telephones.  Since Thomas likes to listen to old radio shows, he heard a lot of names in the old stories that he recognized.  He spent the week writing a melodrama, which he, Abby, and Katie performed as a finale to our study.  Thomas and Abby made sandwich boards one day and proudly marched around the yard, he read Whatever Happened to Penny Candy (I thought it might be over his head, but he really enjoyed it and seemed to get the gist of it), we read "Rip Van Winkle", and made some pretty yummy donuts.

We've had our noses to the grindstone ever since the first of January and have made great progress, and this week we're being rewarded for our hard work with some interesting read alouds.  If you've never read The Great Turkey Walk, you should see if your library has it. It's a very entertaining book!

Next week, we're planning to do a bit of art and music appreciation, and then we're going to do a unit study on chocolate!  We're really looking forward to that!