Have we really been homeschooling for ten weeks? Wow, time goes by quickly! I was gone the past two weeks of homeschool with my husband on a trip. In a perfect world, the kids would have kept up with homeschooling with their sitters, but alas, we do not live in a perfect world. So we’ve had some catching up to do. Not a big deal. The kids have had some difficulty getting back into a routine but we plowed ahead.

Art: Ethan continues to love going to his art class. It’s only once a week at a woman’s home nearby. He’s learned a lot so far. The amazing thing is, he accepts her correction and critique! I was concerned that he would have trouble with it but he accepts it and doesn’t get upset that he doesn’t get it perfect every time. That alone is worth the money:)

History: We are continuing to learn about the beginning of our country. We’ve been studying the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Boston Tea Party, etc. Our History Pockets: The American Revolution has been a wonderful aid to enhancing the curriculum. On Wednesday, we checked online to see what happened that day in history and learned that the Revolutionary War pretty much ended on October 19. We also made a map of Paul Revere’s ride using Interactive 3-D Maps: American History: Easy-to-Assemble 3-D Maps That Students Make and Manipulate to Learn Key Facts and Concepts-in a Kinesthetic Way!. Other fun activities this week: we made hasty pudding (like from the song Yankee Doodle) which is really a lot like grits and made ink out of blueberries to write with using with a feather. I was also able to teach Ethan what I had learned about French history during our trip away. I showed him a picture of a restaurant Ben Franklin frequented while he was in France during the early days of our nation.

Math: We are half way through our math curriculum! I’m hoping to order the second grade math program to begin in January. While he has breezed through the first grade math, I was hesitant to skip the first grade math altogether because I have learned the hard way that if you miss one thing in math, it messes you up for a long time.

Science: We did a few experiments using water and learning about why certain items can soak up water and others can’t. We also did a few experiments on evaporation.

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