Year 5: Rome to The Reformation, Week 3

     One of the many benefits of homeschooling?  You can take it to the hospital if you need to!  The Principal needed knee surgery this week so I planned accordingly and packed up our materials as well as lunch (One can never be too sure about the hospital cafeteria and having once worked in a hospital I wasn't about to take a chance.)

     We completed our school day and had lunch with just enough time to get some reading in before they allowed us into The Principal's recovery room.  Praise be to God all went well AND I drove home safely.  In case I've failed to mention it before, I have an aversion to driving on the freeways.  I'm not sure when that began or even how especially since when I was younger no such disinclination existed and I was ALWAYS cruising down the highways.  So now, the few times that I've had to take the freeways (and managed it well) I've first thanked God and then patted myself on the back.  It's the little accomplishments, ya know?

     This week we began memorizing the books of the New Testament, starting with the gospels, of course.  My kids already knew that so I went ahead and added the next four books.  We also began our grammar/writing curricula.  We're trying something new this year.  We've used English Lessons Through Literature, which we love, but happened upon Apologia's program and decided to give it a try.  Writer's In Residence is an all-in-one language arts program that so far, seems to be fun and engaging.  While the kids miss diagramming sentences from ELTL they like that the very first writing project in WIR asks them to write about themselves.

     We're continuing our reading of Augustus Caesar's World, which can be a bit dry at times, but my kids enjoy making the connections between what we're reading with what we already learned last year in Mystery of History Vol. I.

     In science my kids had a fun project and surprise help.  My brother and his wife came down to visit for the Labor Day weekend and got to help my kids create an edible cell.

     They didn't come out exactly as we all had hoped.  Despite making sure the bowls were properly and thoroughly greased their edible still stuck and fell apart upon release.  Still, the kids had fun making it with their uncle and auntie.  Plus, they got to nibble on some of the candy organelles.

     Well, I'm off to enjoy the rest of the Labor Day weekend and take care of the recovering patient!