Weekly update for the week of 3/29/10

Hard to believe we finished week 29 of Preparing this week. This year has gone so fast. This week in storytime we continued reading some stories from "Hero Tales". I think it has been good for N to read about those that made big sacrifices for Jesus. We haven't read many of this type of story before so after a few of them he has asked me if it was a true story. He loves seeing how God works things for His good, even things that seem bad at the time. At the end of the week started reading "The Wonderful Winter". He is already drawn in by the fact that Robert is running away to save the dog.

For Drawn Into the Heart of Reading he did a project based on "A Mouse called Wolf". He made a character puppet and then retold the book to my dh.


His Poetry assignment was reading "Keepsake Mill" by Robert Louis Stevenson and then he had to come up with something that also wouldn't change through the years. He came up with an outline about the creek by our house and orally told me a story about the things he has done with his dad at that creek at different times in his life and ended it with talking about how someday he will take his son to that same creek.

In History he learned about the Spice Route and made a chart of spices from India and mapped the route. He also learned about Michelangelo and the beginning of the Renaissance time period. He finished reading Pedro's Journal and started reading "William Shakespeare and the Globe". He knows his sister has read Shakespeare in high school, so he likes the fact he is studying something she also studied.

In Science he is reading "Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci?" He made a notebooking page about Da Vinci. Often for his notebook pages if he has written cursive I will let him type the other copy work that is needed for the page.


Next week we will take a spring break and hopefully enjoy some nice weather.