Our Violinist!

Savannah has been asking since she was five to learn to play the violin. She has finally started lessons.  We are all so excited!  She has been to a couple lessons so far and has diligently practiced everyday.  I am so happy someone in our family is going to learn the violin.  I hope all the girls will want to do it.  If the lessons weren't so expensive I'd do it myself.  Maybe someday.....

Math - Learning About Volume

 One of the activities in Math this week was learning about the concept of volume. We found several empty containers of different sizes and then spent time seeing how many cups of liquid fit into each container. Savannah loved doing this and would probably have done it all day if I would have let her.

What are Sophie and Molly up to?

Sophie has really been doing great with reading. She reads short books with three and four letter words in them now and is always looking at books and trying to figure out the words. Molly wants to be like Sophie so she pretends to read, which is so cute. She has some little books memorized so it almost sounds like she is really reading.

Sophie and Molly have both have been learning about different shapes. They had a fun time the other day doing this little project. I cut out different shapes and traced them onto paper, then they got to try to figure out where the shapes went and glue them on. Sophie ended up making little things out of her shapes, like a house.

Recent History Projects

The past couple weeks Savannah made a Ziggurat, which is an ancient dwelling in Mesopotamia that was built for the gods to dwell in.  Savannah also made ancient African bangles. 

Her next project was to become an archeaologist.  I had to put together items that might be found in a tomb, draw her a map, then she followed the map until she discovered the tomb.  She then had to document exactly what was in the tomb before she could remove it or touch it.  She really enjoyed this project. 

(Trying to find the tomb)

(The Tomb!)

(Documenting what she found)

Making an ancient Chinese Ming Bowl

Making and eating an ancient African feast of chicken with figs and lemons, fried plantains, and papaya rice.  I didn't take any pictures of Savannah while she was preparing the food.  She especially did not like touching the raw chicken.  I told her well at least she didn't have to go out and kill it, pluck it, cut it up, and then do what she's doing.  She just looked at me and said yes, I guess you're right, but let's not talk about that anymore.

I've really got to get a new table cloth, the red is sooo bright.