Year 1: Week 22

Sometimes you just have to call it a week.

This week, we got to travel and celebrate Christmas with family. We did a ton of school-related this-and-that, but we didn't do everything.

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Here is some of what we did...

*completed 2 chapters of Life of Fred: Liver

*read The Stag Looking into the Water

*practiced piano (Gemma was having a tough time with one song - Toymaker's Dance - but I sat her on my lap and bounced her while I sang the melody, and it started to make sense to her. Those pesky eighth notes.)

*read some poetry from Nature in Verse (not every day, but some, and some is better than none)

*did some Duolingo

*read some Bible passages, including "The Call of the First Disciples"

*listened to our Maestro Classics CD of The Nutcracker

*read about Coriolanus, Alexander the Great (and located Macedonia in our atlas), and sculptures like Venus de Milo & Winged Victory of Samothrace

*added Charles Dickens, Queen Victoria, and Tchaikovsky to timeline book

*read The Bremen Town Musicians

*went to dance class

*read two chapters of The World by the Fireside. The first was about sugarcane. We located Jamaica in the atlas and watched this YouTube video about how sugar goes from cane to the sugar we buy in the store...

...The second was "Where Does Cocoa Come From?" For Mother Culture, if you're interested in how cacao became a product of West Africa, check out this:

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treesandmarkets/inaforesta/history.htm

*read 3 pages of Lamb's As You Like It & watched the animated As You Like It

*Gemma independently read several books, including Betsy-Tacy and Tib, For Biddle's Sake, and Betsy-Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.

*decorated our Christmas tree

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*read about sea anemones and how plants store food

*spent a day playing with friends at Temescal Canyon

For Christmas, Gemma received the lighting kit I bought two years ago (40% off!). She received lots of wonderful presents, including lighting fixtures and a dollhouse family. So, I've spent eight hours over the past couple of days learning (by doing) how to wire her dollhouse. (What was I thinking?!) I have one room - of six 😳 - done.