President's Day marked the beginning of this school week. It was a holiday for the local schools, so we took the day off as well.
However in light of the holiday, we started reading several books pertaining to the President's of the United States (this is addition to our weekly overview of president facts, we are currently on the 15th President: James Buchanan).
The books we are reading about presidents and our country, include Words That Built a Nation, The House that George Built, The Founding Fathers, and George Washington's Secret Six. We follow the ideas put forth by Charlotte Mason that living books provide a deeper understand and easier recollection. Reading these books is helping us really understand the beginnings of our country.
In addition to these books, we finished reading The Wild Robot (which we all loved and would highly recommend), and also read the funny picture book, The Bot That Scott Built. We are also playing Battleship as often as we can (I beat him by one peg this time, next time I think he might finally win!). And Legos continue to be an integral part of every day.
Our current book of fairy tales is Brave Red, Smart Frog. We are enjoying this version of these tales and how the author ties these stories together over the course of the book. We also try to read a couple of tall tales each week, and our current book of choice is The Jack Tales (Jack loves that there are so many stories about boys named Jack).
Other books on our current list of read alouds include finishing The Secret Chicken Society and starting The Mouse and the Motorcycle (these are books Jack reads aloud to me).
We were thankful for sunshine this week, and even had a chance to read outside some (our favorite place to be!). And Daniel was thrilled to introduce the boys to his favorite childhood television show, Air Wolf (they have been watching it before bedtime on YouTube).
At his weekly swimming lessons Jack did really well... I think he will pass his swim test soon.
Jack had another good week at basketball. He will be bummed when it is finished in a couple of weeks.
We finished the week with the Blue and Gold Banquet for Boy Scouts. His troop all got their Tiger Badges and Jack got the rest of belt loop pieces.
And finally on Sunday we went to check out the water being released from the Chickamauga Dam. Record rainfalls this year (and finally a sunny day!) meant we got to see an impressive site. The water was really churning.
A Look Back at February:
Week 21 (Jan. 28-Feb. 3)
Week 22 (Feb. 4-10)
Week 23 (Feb. 11-17)
A glimpse back at our school year:
January
December
November
October
September was our trip out West
August
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