In history this week he learned about Napoleon and Simon Bolivar. He knew of Napoleon because one of his favorite movies is "Night of the Museum 2". His written narration this week was on Handel. We had studied him in our composer study so this was a pretty easy narration for him. In his independent history reading he is reading "Mozart the Wonder Boy" and is listening to a CD that goes along with this book. He touched his Momma's heart when we were listening to this and he asked me to dance with him. We danced a very clumsy waltz around the room.
His history project was making the French Revolution flag. He was proud of his work when he was done.
He continues to improve on his ability to research topics and needs less help with this now than he did before. He makes vocabulary cards each week and usually does very well with this. This week however he got a little lazy with his definitions and so all his sentences started with "Look there is a ...". We talked about putting forth his best effort and comparing those sentences to ones he had done earlier in the year and he agreed he could do better, so he redid them.
In science he finished up his book on Pasteur and microbes and is now reading "Albert Einstein". He did an experiment last week of putting plain bread, a piece of bread with plain water on it and a piece of bread with sugar water on it all in seperate bags and put them in a dark, warm place. We were supposed to then check them in a week. We pulled the bags out expecting to see mold and we saw nothing. Our best guess is the preservatives in the bread kept it from molding.
His poem this week was called "Historical Associations" and he was sad since it is the last new poem of the year. He wrote his own poem based on this poem and did a nice job with it.
In Math he was very excited to finish up the 400 level of CLE math and started the 500 level. We had done the 400 level this year since CLE was advanced compared to what he did in ps.
Math is definitely one of his strengths.
Co-op ended this week and then they had a homeschool expo. N was in a drama class so they performed some plays for the expo. He was Prince Charming in a short version of "Sleeping Beauty". I think he made a very handsome prince.
