Our First Week of School...

 

This week John-John started school as a sophomore at West Valley High School. He said his summer was short, but he seemed like he was ready to see friends and see where another year in high school takes him.

                                 
At home, Jessica and Jack and I started our school year off with a FIVE IN A ROW book- THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT: Across the English Channel with Louis Bleriot. We had a lot of fun learning about how Louis Bleriot made ten attempts at constructing his own aeroplane, before he got it right and flew his eleventh plane over the English Channel to make history.

With Five In A Row, the idea is to read the book five times during the week and each time discover more and more about the story and illustrations. We then go into a deeper study of the things in the book that intrigue us. Most of the time we find ourselves submerged into a particular subject and the learning is endless!

There are so many good things about this book - the story is interesting and the Jessica and Jack listened intently each time we read it. We learned more about France, discovered England, the English Channel, explored the Roman Numerals, watched airplane videos, made paper airplanes, and ate a French bagguette and drank hot tea! We also made memory lapbooks to pull everything together and help us remember Bleriot's adventure.

                                

 

Our look at England brought us to the nursery rhyme "Pussy

Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?"

and

we also remembered the British Redcoats by dressing

these paperdoll guys.

 

 

 

This is my second attempt to keep a blog, mostly about homeschooling, but also of some of our family activities. Blogging is not something I'm particularly drawn to, but I feel like we would benefit from logging our adventures of life learning.


I hope it will grow on me! I feel really strange, taking pictures of so many things, and then spending the time to log it all, but I'm stretching myself to try this and hopefully make it successful! In the end, (if I can keep it going), I know I will be glad I tried it.