A Little Overview of What We've Been Doing in School

We've been learning patriotic songs this year.  Here's Andrew practicing his marching and horn playing to Yankee Doodle. 

 

Did you know that the reference to a macaroni was actually about a fancy hat from England, not pasta?  Honestly, that was new information to me! Not the "Oh, now that you mention it, I remember hearing that before!" but the "I've NEVER heard that!"

A little school work in dappled October shade!

 

We planted beets and carrots in our Earth Boxes.  We also planted corn because we learned about Pilgrims, Squanto, Plymouth, the Mayflower and the miraculous feat those Puritans Separatists accomplished by simply surviving.  

We shook our own butter. 

We made (super easy) homemade bread. Because Jesus is the Bread of Life.

One day we headed to Mt. Lemmon to have a picnic and draw in our journals and have school and study rocks.  Because anyone who hears the words of Jesus and puts them into practice is like the wise man who built his house upon the rock.  

Can you guess?

Yes!  Baking soda and vinegar are FUN!
And, fortunately, cheap because this is at least the third time we've done this experiment.  On this day there was no prompting from me! 

 Outdoors, in a mud volcano is much more fun than in a pan in the kitchen!

We also do the academic topics of Spelling, Math, Language and History.  But they aren't nearly as much fun to photograph.

What's happening in school in your neck of the woods?