Last week, as mentioned before, we finished up Mycenae but we are still working on Joshua's retelling of the Odyssey with illustrations. This is a long project. There isn't much to tell, but that he still has a lot of illustrating to do. I think the final project will be worth it, though. We've also been reading a lot of Bible stories since Old Testament lands and times are the next on our list. We finished a big book of them just tonight (and Derek finally finished Gilgamesh! Yea!) so I'll need to get some more. Anyway, I'll type more about that next week.
But our animal for this week was the shark. I remember two years ago we spent an entire month on sharks. It's on this blog, you could probably look it up, January 2011. We got pretty bored of sharks at the end. So two days was a great review. Joshua loved the library books. I think he wasn't as impressed with sharks as he thought he would be. He mentioned one day how sharks were cool but octopus's were AMAZING! Still, we made a shark hat (I don't recommend this project. the hat doesn't stay on very well and it is less anatomically correct, as Joshua pointed out) and a stretchbook to display our knowledge of sharks. The stretchbook was very hard to figure out, but I thought it would be such a cool book so I struggled and practiced on it anyway. This was maybe Joshua's least favorite thing to do so far in homeschool. I still think it is cool and we will probably make stretchbooks in the future but not for awhile. The shark hat was only cool because the kids had to paint the paper plates and they thought that was fun.
OK, the awesome stretchbook. When closed, the book is just a skiddy-wampus little square.
While opening, it looks like this (especially if you open it with only one hand because a camera is in the other.
Here are our shark hats from January 2011. What little kids! Lukas wasn't even born yet.
But our animal for this week was the shark. I remember two years ago we spent an entire month on sharks. It's on this blog, you could probably look it up, January 2011. We got pretty bored of sharks at the end. So two days was a great review. Joshua loved the library books. I think he wasn't as impressed with sharks as he thought he would be. He mentioned one day how sharks were cool but octopus's were AMAZING! Still, we made a shark hat (I don't recommend this project. the hat doesn't stay on very well and it is less anatomically correct, as Joshua pointed out) and a stretchbook to display our knowledge of sharks. The stretchbook was very hard to figure out, but I thought it would be such a cool book so I struggled and practiced on it anyway. This was maybe Joshua's least favorite thing to do so far in homeschool. I still think it is cool and we will probably make stretchbooks in the future but not for awhile. The shark hat was only cool because the kids had to paint the paper plates and they thought that was fun.
And when completely opened and laid on the floor with a hand holding one of the flaps out for all to see, it looks like this. I thought it was cool anyway.
Here are our shark hats from January 2011. What little kids! Lukas wasn't even born yet.
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