We have officially started Ancient Greece.
Greg asked me on the weekend how we did on Monday starting with Ancient Greece last week and I had to say "We'll try again this Monday!" LOL!
But there was reasons! Monday last week was actually a holiday, so we didn't do school. Tuesday everyone cried while we were trying to memorize Psalm 139. Tuesday night Aunty Tracy and the girls slept over, so Wednesday we had company most of the day - Thursday Abbey had a cardiologist appointment at 8:30 a.m. - so I didn't get home until 10:30 - and Friday mornings we have to get ready for AAA, so that explains all of that!
But there was reasons! Monday last week was actually a holiday, so we didn't do school. Tuesday everyone cried while we were trying to memorize Psalm 139. Tuesday night Aunty Tracy and the girls slept over, so Wednesday we had company most of the day - Thursday Abbey had a cardiologist appointment at 8:30 a.m. - so I didn't get home until 10:30 - and Friday mornings we have to get ready for AAA, so that explains all of that!
This week is our last week of Friday Afternoon Activities - so that will be good - I will have my Fridays back until the new year. Actually until the beginning of March. We will have gymnastics again starting in January or February, but there is no prep required for that, so I didn't find that it interrupted my schedule at all last year. We will skim through Ancient Greece fairly quickly - I want it done by Christmas - the reality is we still have 7 years of school - we don't need to have everything done in one year! Ancient Greece will come up again, so we won't kill it, we will just compress, focussing on the history, and the science which for this unit is the human body!
The girls are learning Psalm 139 for this unit, and there was no crying today when we went through it! I will post a video as soon as they know enough to make it worth taping.
Here is the group photo from Arche Afternoon Activities this session! Age range 3 - 17
They finished the Arts Around the World class they were taking at the Neil Balkwill Arts Centre for the past 10 weeks. They made some interesting art. Greg thinks art is only drawing, so he wasn't as happy with the class as the kids were - but I can see the value in making puppets, chalk drawings, bead jewellry and the rest of it. Art is more than just drawing - it does encompass all of those other things, sculpture, painting, etc.
These two pictures were an example of x-ray art, which was from Australia.
These were stacking pots, to represent stacking dolls from Russia.
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I still want to look at the unit study! The girls art is wonderful! Was that with the community, or a city program?
It was with the city at the Neil Balkwill Arts Centre - we had to deal with some false religions as we went through it - but I don't mind that so much - I actually was glad to talk about it with them.
They will likely do some kind of class there again, it is so good!
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