Another week of snow! Our snow storm started Thursday the week previous and we still had snow the next Thursday! Most of it had melted by then, and the boys were way more than over it by that point! It ended up being layers of snow and ice, so not great for building anything as it didn't stick together. Instead we did some fun indoor things while we watched the snow flurries out the window.
Monday we did 4 chapters of Story of the World!! The boys worked on this weeks wood puzzles: a cannon, catapult, and crossbow. We learned about the Revolutionary war and many individuals involved. We also had many books from the library this week about people during this time period and read a lot about Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Betsy Ross, and more! The boys also made a trip to Eugene later in the week and listened on tape to I Survived: 1776, and a collection of books about John Hancock, writing the constitution, and Paul Revere.
Tuesday we went to a park in town and walked a forested trail. The boys were shocked when we came around a bend and there were a bunch of houses near the trail. haha. Apparently we don't do many "urban" hikes! We explored about worms, rolled logs, climbed trees, and played along fallen trees in the woods. It was only a quick two hour park visit, as it was raining on us the entire time, but a nice break in town from all the snow!
Michael decided he needed a pencil and art case to keep his supplies handy. He sat down and designed, and then sewed, with minimal help, a pencil case with pockets for his sharpener and eraser! I will have to get a finished photo later! Avery also got created a made a stuffed car!
They also randomly got paints out. Michael's was a forest at night, and Avery made a photo highlighting a variety of medieval weapons.
Scrabble!! We played twice this last week, with both boys looking through dictionaries for words they could spell with their tiles and practicing words.
One weekend day we checked out the swollen river in town.
While we worked outside on Saturday Avery made some soup with plants he found around the yard. He is pretending to take a sip of his camellia blossom soup.
Our little calves had what we think was pneumonia. We lost one of them during the snow storm, but the other two have had a round of medication and are now eating grain everyday to help gain weight back and are doing much better! Yay!
Books we read this week. Imogene's Last Stand was a really cool book that portrayed a young history buffs struggles to keep the town museum open. She succeeds by finding important documentation making the location a landmark. Each page she quotes another historical figure and was a fun tie in to all the names we have been learning connected to the beginnings of our country. Aaron and Alexander was fun, since Hamilton is a popular soundtrack in our house, and the boys enjoyed the silliness of George Washington's Cows.
These are the three accompanying books to the on tape they listened to on their drive with dad.
We played Sushi Go multiple times this week for math, Avery managed to do his reading lesson once this week, and the older two read a lot! They also learned about Mardi Gras with our babysitter on Wednesday, making masks, wearing beads, and talking about why people around the world celebrate that holiday. We had a good laugh when Avery was telling me all about it and saying that in Hell or Hades (he couldn't remember which) they threw oranges at each other. After some thinking, Donna, our babysitter realized he misheard her when she said Haiti!! They throw oranges for Mardi Gras in Haiti! It was funny.
Hope you have a fabulous week,
The Dillman's
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