Week 22- Saul's demise and David's Rise.

The best thing about this week has been starting the Children's Homer. The kids love this book since they are pretty obsessed with mythology. This is not an easy read...lol but its such a great stretch in style and structure. Even Hulk is enjoying it especially the battles! We are also reading an Imagination Station for Hulk. Not quite such a stretch for him ;).

 Our note booking has taken on comic book form lately. While maybe note producing traditionally written paragraphs they are definitely proving they are absorbing lots of details from our bible readings.


 Next week we are going on a field trip to see a play based on the Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. This is one of the first field trips we have ever done solely based on Hulk's interests. He's usually just gone a long with the "big" kids. In preparation he asked for all the books we could get from the library in the series. So, we got as many as we could..lol. Hulk loves to read these books and they have really helped him work on reading with inflection. The books are full of visual clues beyond basic punctuation that really work for him. He's also picked a great understanding of dialogue.

 Also in 1sty world this week we worked on the story of the 12 spies. Hulks is making a lot of progress in  his wiriting. He gives excellent recaps of the stories and we struggle to condense them done into  1-2 sentences that will fit in the bible notebook. We are also working on adding more details to our drawings.

Speaking of writing... Writing Strands produced some crazy sentences this week. The assignment was to use adjectives to make more detailed sentences. I think they got the point...lol

In Science this week we continued to watch our might fava bean plant grow. We also started on the started on the solar system. the kids loved the toliet paper roll model of the spacing of the planets.My mom came home int he middle and just starting laughing at the toliet paper rolling down the hall.
The kids also began some classes this week through the Skrafty. These are  fun classes using Minecraft. Ying's been Skyping with her friends while playing and they were building a bible study venue for kids to hang out and chat. They had a blast.