Weekly Wrap-Up: The One with the Famous Art

I'd like to start off this wrap-up by stating, while we got all of our school done and went on a nice field trip, it was not a good week.  My kids are driving my nuts.  I might start requesting brochures for boarding schools.  In Europe.  They have lost their ever-lovin' minds this week.

Good.  I feel better putting that in writing.  It's probably a good thing I'm going out with the gals tonight.  Without the ankle-biters.  

Now on to the actual schooling.

We're still studying "Go-Getters" in The Landmark History of the American People .  It's amazing at all the great innovators that our country has seen.

We also played a great American Inventors card game that I got from the Winter Promise American Achievements Activity Pack. (I use it to add some hands-on to our Sonlight studies.)  It had a couple of errors in it though.  Of course, they're they same errors being taught in PS so I guess it won't make anyone behind most of America. LOL  I did email them the corrections though.

We're finishing up Caddie Woodlawn and Old Yeller  and are excited to see what's next.

In Exploring Creation with Zoology 1 we're studying egg laying and bird "parenting".   Mackenzie has been very interested in how the chick develops and really liked the "air sac" activity that we did with an egg from our fridge.  She was thrilled to see almost all of the parts of an unfertilized egg.

LA is going well.  She moved up a level in her Spelling Power.  And she continues to learn about conjugating verbs in First Language Lessons.  Her only really hurdle in LA is summary narration.  We are using Writing with Ease  for our third year and she still hasn't really mastered a nice, concise summary.  Every once in a while she'll knock it out of the park and I'll say that is what you need to give me every time.  Then it goes right back to too many details, no mention of the main ideas or plot.  I still have to really hold her hand through this.  Sigh...

On the flip side, she really is a good writer.  She can write a nice sentence unless it involves something she read. LOL

We went on a field trip to the Chrysler Museum of Art and got to see some awesome stuff!

Mackenzie tried her hand at sketching some of the art.

We got to see a Mary Cassatt which was really exciting because we just finished studying her.

There was a bust and a photograph of Abe, who we also just finished studying.

Some gorgeous marble statues.

And some more big names like Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Matisse.

Be sure to head over to Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and see what everyone else has been up too.