Week 5 in CTG

Another fabulous week of school. Monday, of course, was Labor Day, so we didn't do school then. But, that's okay, since Friday on the schedule is a feast day.

Bible has been working more on memorizing the Old Testament books. I love all the verses that they picked for us to read. Such encouraging verses.

History has been learning about Ancient Egypt. Our books didn't come in until Thursday, so now I have a bunch of books on Egypt when we're almost done. It was interesting to read about pyramids, why they built him, how we still don't know for sure how they built them, etc. Rabbit really likes it when the notebook pages are just coloring - one of them was this week. It was also very interesting to draw the map of the Middle East Today over our map of the Mediteranian area.

We're still in the Pyramids science book. One project this week was to build a step pyramid from sugar cubes. That was fun! Here is our final result:

We didn't do all the science activities, but one of the activities we're doing is to figure out how the mummification process prevents decay. So, we've got our sandwich bags set up and waiting for mold to start growing:

(Just an update on this experiment - we never got mold to grow on any of the bread. They were on the top of the fridge for several weeks.)

Rabbit enjoyed listening to Vivadi and creating a "Spring" picture this week:

In math, Rabbit decided she wanted to learn division, so we've switch back to Math-U-See's Delta. I know, probably not a good idea, but I figure if she wants to do it, then it will go easier. She finished lesson 1 in 3 days - including the quiz. She's also read some silly stories from the library about kids who have had trouble learning their math facts.

The rest of school is going well. We didn't get to Writing Strands or Spanish on our last day because of a doctor's appointment. Spanish I'm not worried about. We'll just move on to the next lesson. For Writing Strands, I may do a lesson on Friday, just to get all "caught up." It's been a lot of writing for Rabbit, so it has been a challenge, but I'm trying to encourage and help her as much as possible.

We're not going to build a booth for Sukkoth. We're probably going to set up Rabbit's pup-tent, and do the Sukkoth readings in the tent, and maybe enjoy a snack there. The kids love it when we set up the pup-tent. We did read the passages in the Teacher's Manual. It is neat how the emphasis is on celebrating, being joyful or having joy, and praising God.

One other thing. On days we start by 8:15, we usually finish by noon. On the days we don't, then we're doing 1 to 1.5 hours after lunch. More motivation to get started by 8:00!