Week 18th January 17-21st: Story of the World and Rest

 We did not get to much schooling this week. We came home Monday from a ski trip with my family, Tuesday we visited a new nature park that just opened near us, and then Wednesday on we have been down with illness. Not sure if we have Covid or the Flu, but body aches, headaches, congestion, and fatigue was the theme of the week. I also took zero photos of anything we did educational or otherwise this week!

We read Chapter 14 of Volume 4 of Story of the World. We discussed The Romanoff's of Russian and how they were the next to last Czars that Russia had. The chapter then skipped down to Africa and we learned about Ethiopia's fight for freedom from Italy. Almost every chapter this volume is half on one part of the world and half on another, and somehow ties them together a little. We haven't been adding extra curricular things to our chapter, something I hope to fix soon, as illness has kept us from the library and, honestly Volume 4's activity guide is terrible with ideas compared to the other three volumes. We have been supplementing with a handful of history comic books I picked up at a garage sale this summer. They focus mostly on famous wars or events in time and the boys have enjoyed them. 

Boys did their workbooks three days this week for math and writing. Michael has completed his spelling workbook!! He has been working on a resolutions sheet we started at co-op for writing. Emmet has finished his math book! Woohoo! We are discussing how to move forward for both boys in writing and for Emmet in math and have not decided yet on what books to get next. 

We continue to play bored games constantly! We played Munchkin and a new game we got for Christmas called Doodle Dungeon. First you go through the deck drawing a dungeon with monsters, treasures, and traps. Then you pass your hand-drawn dungeon to the next player and they draw a path for the Hero to follow. You get your dungeon back and go back through the card pile, now using it as cards that give you bonuses and cards that give other players negatives. Each monster the Hero encounters he has to battle, and the goal is to defeat the Hero and have monsters and treasures left at the end of the game, which gives you points. An interesting turn, as normally we play as the Hero's in games, but instead your the dungeon master, trying to best the Hero. 

We got outside a bit this weekend and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine. Avery and Emmet cleaned up their little gardens some, and Avery planted some garlic. 

The one day we met up with co-op we also worked on our time capsule. We created little paper crackers with wishes inside and placed our items to keep for a year. 

Cheers to maybe having had covid and moving on with life,

The Dillmans