USA

Thank you to everyone who encouraged me through the first 2 weeks of ECC. Week 3 we started the USA and it was sooooooo much smoother. I know this is partly due to it being a review of the geography we learned last year as part of Adventures but it was fun to see what they remembered. Ying remembered 48 of 50. Yang got the coasts but sorry mid- America. We'll work on that. Hulk began learning our home state and neighbors. We've also bee working on a mini-book called "Me on the Map", helping him learn his address and how street, city, state, country, etc all fit together.
We also started in on Hero Tales this week as part of Bible. Hero tales uses different famous Christians stories to teach character. We started by just reading but it was a bit flat  so it has morphed into a " Bible Notebook". I started by  printing out something to go with each trait. It was a pretty easy internet search, Then the kiddos added their touches. I find they listen better when their hands are moving. We will also be putting in our copy work for the memory verses.

Hulk is working his way through Right Start Reading. We get the most done in the 1 hour free period he has during co-op time. He remains much more focused there because the are NO computers or video games calling his name..lol

P.s.....

Here are three pintrest board I have started.....

General MFW ECC: ( or stuff I haven't seperated out yet or stuff that goes all year

http://www.pinterest.com/lettinghimlead/mfw-ecc-general/

Canda and USA - I have included the board I made for Adventures last year as it has lots of good USA material:

http://www.pinterest.com/lettinghimlead/mfw-ecc-usa-canada/

http://www.pinterest.com/lettinghimlead/mfw-adventures-in-us-history/