Reality strikes...lol

 So world.... I have drafts written about the last few weeks of CTG and first.. and at some point I might get them published, but its gonna be a while. We are done and we had fun but now its time for some real world learning through field trips and old fashioned house work. I realize as the year goes on each term I get less an less time to sit down and document what we've been doing.  So have patience with me ... I'll get to it..lol

Weeks 32-34- Ancient Greece- Photos only

1st grade nature exploration...

Hulk reads to the class

 Painted Greek pots.....



 Insert a Roman Feast.... Ying did an ancients class in  co-op and wanted to share her Roman feast... So a sneak preview of next year...lol

Hamanscatchen Cookies

 Fun with Lapbooks

We celebrated the end with a Greek Feast at one of our local Greek Restaurants... The Girls Shared the Heracles Platter...

Week 31-32- photos ONLY

Spring Break- Blue Springs State Park

Week 29-----

 So while its still March  here Spring has sprung! upper 70's for temps and flowers are blooming. Here are our find from our nature walk. Some rabbit fur and  wild pansies and violets.

 I am in charge of sets for Yang's musical. I got the start on things this week by painting our staging blocks in bright primaries.

Summarizing CTG weeks 25-28

So I got pictures for post for weeks 25-28 and then realized CTG really wasn't the focus of our weeks at all..lol..  We did a lot of biblical history with no real hands one. We notebooked about Solomon, Elijah, and Elisha. We spent a very brief time on the beginnings of the Hindu and Buddhist religions. It was blessedly light as Spring fever took over along with crunch time for drama. We switched switched from Writing Strands 3 to  The Institute for Excellence in Writing's Fables,Myths, and Fairy Tales.   I am so excited because the girls have not been fighting writing and are actually enjoying it. Yeah for a momma win.... ;)

 In first, Hulk has passed us in Biblical history moving on to the new testament. He's honestly getting pretty bored with the program. Its not much a challenge anymore so we are really focusing on summaries because I think he still needs to work on this skill in preparation for fully joining to  the girls next year for RTR. And he's working on reading fluency with different easy readers. He's still flying through his Singapore Math ;)

 So  Hulk has really enjoyed working through Khan Academy, but he's also frustrated. He doesn't like to stop and watch the tutorials and then he stuff wrong. He's not used to getting math wrong and it can cause so real meltdowns. ( while he no longer throws stuff, he still emotionally Hulks out..lol)

 The girls got the last 4 books of the Harry Potter Series for their birthday. Its been hard to tear them away and some other things have just gone on the back burner.

 Yang came home from Co-op today as "Rosie Riveter" .


Trying to encourage Hulk to move beyond stick figures with his drawing.



 We had a play date and lumch with some friends from our Old church. to break up the week.

 The girls are still enjoying IEW.

Week 23 A week for the Dramatic Arts

 So this week has been all about the drama... in the best way possible....lol. We started off with the touring production of "Elephant and Piggie : We are in a play". This was a field trip performace, so it was us and 2700  other k-2nd graders from local area schools. The production was very well done and the kids had a blast, especially Hulk. they girls were a bit old for the material but they found it interesting from a technical aspect, especially Yang who is my drama queen ( again in a good way!). Afterwards they talked about the production's use of costuming, and stetting  brought the books to life, but kept true to the original material making it easy for kids identify and connect with.

 Later that evening  Yang and I attended a production of " Bedside Manor" presented by the middle school age troupe of her theater group. It was a musical comedy set in a hospital with tons of zany staff, patients, and visitors. Yang loved it. I loved see how well this group does productions. Its our first year with this group and  so far we love it. Its and interesting balance of talented kids, Christ centered focus, and professionalism.  Anyone can join and every one get's a part, but the kids who seek this group out are committed and have a certain amount  natural flair..lol...It's definitly a step up from our church musicals of the past in terms of commitment but its been so worth it for Yang.

 Despite all the fun field trips we did get some other work done. Hulk is still working of taking his time to write, and this week using a pen seemed to motivate him.  He can do it when he wants, but most of the time he's still a 6 year old boy with more energy the patience.

 Grandma saved our Friday meltdown this week with  wall climbing sticky ninjas...lol. We were in  a bad place Friday morning until theses guys made and appearance. I can not thank her enough.

 On and Adult note: I checked this out to listen to myself last week and have really enjoyed it. They kids have listened to some of the lectures and also enjoyed it. I would not reccomend it for most kids, though. it is meant for college level classes and  adult topics are discussed freely. However  it has helped me greatly with pronucations for the Children's Homer.