Weekly Wrap-Up

We just finished our last full week before holiday break. Next week will be kind of off-and-on as far as school goes since we have a lot of extra things going on.

Coloring a poster showcasing Midwestern prairie grasses and wildflowers

This was also Em's last week of homeschool ballet for the fall semester.

Em (in white) practicing for the homeschool ballet recital

What did El learn about this week? 
Area, perimeter, and volume
Æthelred the Unready v. Sweyn, King of Denmark, and why you should never pay the Dane-Geld
Leif Ericson
Compounds v. Mixtures
Rube Goldberg machines
2-point perspective drawing

Subject and Object Pronouns, Subject Complement, "Complement" v. "Compliment"
Fjords (and that "fjord" is maybe the best word ever)
Paraphrasing for a summary

What did Em learn about this week?

Subtraction with renaming

Inequalities

Possessive pronouns

Landforms

Life Cycles/ Metamorphoses of Frogs and Moths

"wound" v. "wound" (homographs)
cursive letters "i" and "t"

drawing adorable animals

 

Em also wanted to showcase the evolution of her drawing over the past few years

from meatball people (1) to neck-less people (2) to... 

squirrels (3).