Week 28

Our Commonwealth was terrific this week!  Ivy and Eli had an art class with Molly and then I taught a political class on the Golden Rule in Government.  I used the Tuttle Twins.  The kids designed flags to represent our Commonwealth and we worked on a school Motto.  Emmitt and Erik missed out on their classes and stayed home since neither was feeling very good.l

Emmitt and Erik came outside and helped me trim all of our fruit trees.  It was a nice warm day before the stormy snow and rain came!

 Eli had a couple of friends over and played basketball with them.  We all spent a lot of time outside riding around our wiggle cars outback and going to for walks.
 Emmitt, Erik and Zeke being cute!
 Erik is standing in front of our morning board.  This is what we use in our morning time.  It has our poem, scripture, and everything else we do in morning time.  I'm loving using our upstairs bonus room for school time.
 Here's a picture of the kids working on art.  We also worked on history, still studying Columbus.  They spent time coloring in their Columbus art notebooks as well and we are switching next week to a new poem as they all mostly have the Columbus one memorized.

Eli, Ivy and Emmitt did their Language Arts and Math as usual.  It was a great week!  We also went skiing up at Eagle Point and swimming on the same day!  I forgot to post pictures, but it was Eli's and Ivy's first time skiiing and they loved it!!

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