Week of August 2nd - 6th

We had a great first week to our new school year. We began each day reading in the Psalms and prayer. We will read through the entire book this year. We also did "Who Is God?" by Apologia two days. This is a Christian worldview curriculum designed for family use. It is great!

To celebrate our first day, we went out to IHOP for breakfast with my best friend, Jenny, and her kids. Then we went to the dollar theater to see "How To Train Your Dragons". David and Jenny's two youngest kids were going to be studying Vikings this week, so we figured it worked! We did some school work before and after our outing.

Hannah read about the life and work of Cameron Townsend, learned about early life in North America, worked on a digital bug collection, studied cells, did math and grammar, as well as started "The Fallacy Detective", a logic study. She also attended a free vocabulary class offered by a retired English teacher.

David did study Vikings, which he really enjoyed. He got to listen to a story about Vikings and do a craft with Jenny's kids. We did a 3D Map of the Vikings' exploration to North America.
He also started his BJU Bible curricula, did some geography, did math and grammar, as well as some story narration. He did some logic puzzles and did some drawing. David attended a music class offered by the above mentioned English teacher's wife. She is putting together a patriotic musical performance as a salute to our soldiers and veterans. He enjoyed it and will continue weekly.

Both kids have really taken an interest in drawing in the last couple of weeks. Here are some pictures.