I’m finding it difficult to write a weekly post on our progress in homeschooling. But every other week is better than nothing, right?

We are loving all that we’re learning in American History. I say “we” because I am learning too! In the past couple of weeks, we’ve learned more about George Washington. We did a 3D map of his crossing of the Deleware River and enjoyed many books on Washington’s life.

We’ve also studied more about the Revolutionary War. We did history pockets about the life of the soldiers and about famous battles during the war.

We made Johnny Cakes with apple butter. Yum! Apparently the cakes were a staple in the diet of the people during the 1700′s.

On Monday the 31st, we did a unit on Martin Luther, in honor of Reformation Day. We read a wonderful book that explained the reformation quite well. We also read a fictional story about Martin Luther’s son. We did a few activities including making a coat of arms, writing out the sola’s with homemade ink and a feather, listening to the song Luther wrote (Almighty Fortress is Our God) and discussing new vocabulary words associated with what we had learned.

We’ve also begun studying the states. We are learning the state birds and flowers of each state as well as some basic facts. I purchased a huge color in map of the U.S. that Ethan enjoys coloring (MindWare Color Chart: USA). And while studying Georgia, we made peach cobbler:)

We’ve started studying birds in science. I expect we’ll be making a bird feeder sometime soon. A great site I found on birds is enature.com. On the home page each day, they profile a bird of the day.

In music, we’ve been learning about the Nutcracker. Ethan read a story about it and we listened to the music. We enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate as we listened to the “Chocolate” dance and when we listened to the dance of the flutes, I got out my flute for Ethan to see.

Those are the highlights for the past couple of weeks. What have my fellow homeschooling friends been up to?