Creation to the Greeks Weeks 5,6,7

well I haven't gotten around to blogging lately, but school is going great and keeps up busy.  We have actually completed week 8 too, but I didn't take any pictures.  The bad thing about not updating weekly is I don't always remember what we did and when we did it.

we began memorizing the 10 commandments and M has been adding them to her stone tablets on the wall, We are on the 3rd one I think

In reading  our genre is adventure and M has been reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.  She made a book mark one day with a character from the book on it and then for her completion project she made a Movie poster for the book and wrote a movie review.  We are using Heart of Dakota's Drawn Into the Heart of Reading and loving it so far.  M gets to choose her books.  She is now reading the Secret Garden for historical fiction.

finishing up on the whole study of pyramids, we made crystals that were pyramid shaped.

we studied early forms of writing, made our own Rosetta Stone and then our own Egyptian wall art.

we have been loving our science Zoology 3 and have included lap-booking with this which M seems to like.  We are ditching the history pockets, she didn't care for them that much and they were really an add on for us.  For Zoology we have experiments too, this was one on camouflage.

Getting ready for a new school year

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I like to plan as much for the new school year over the summer as I can, so I can just open and go - which is what I love about My Father's World.  Yesterday we went to the beach and I brought along my teachers manual to make a school supply list and get familiar with things.  I am going to take file folders for each country and week and fill them ahead of time with things needed for that week and any notes I have like supplies I will need to get that week or ideas from the message boards.  I love curriculum and so have had fun collecting things for the upcomming school year and making wish lists.  I have to be careful though because whatever I buy I feel like we really need to use it and somedays we just can't fit it all in.  After last year I figured we would just complete those things over the summer, but the only thing we have really stuck to is reading and our art Artistic Pursuits, Book One: An Introduction to the Visual Arts.  I have also been working like mad to get our classroom ready, it kinda became a dumping ground over the last couple of months.  I will post pictures when it's all set up for our year of travel(Exploring Countries & Cultures).