ECC 2nd Edition: Week 7

I feel like we've really hit a rhythm now with the curriculum. Days are going fairly smoothly. Doing Spelling first really has helped get our days going.

I did feel that it was a bit disjointed to be reading about the Garifuna people, who live in Central America as we started studying Canada, but that was okay. Hero Tales was back again this week. It was interesting to learn about the founders of the Salvation Army. And we are having some lively discussion on the book of Matthew.

The geography lessons seemed pretty short this week. If we're suppose to play the geography game, I wait until after science so we don't go too long on it. We've pretty much got the North American countries down. 

In science we learned about food chains, food webs, and scavengers and decomposers - a nice change over deserts. 

I did let the kids do the soap carvings. They enjoyed getting out their multi-tools and using those. We used Ivory soap. It is very soft. I made them carve/shave their soap bars into bowls so we could collect the shavings for use later. A note of warning: some dogs might think Ivory soap is tasty - at least ours did. Poor Tigger. He had made a baby seal, but the dog bit off the head. She's a white fluffy dog, so we decided she was a polar bear eating the baby seal, LOL! The dog doesn't seem sick or anything, so we're guessing that the Ivory soap didn't hurt her. Tigger later went back and carved a bear - and did a pretty good job, too!