This week we have started learning about Vikings!  The boys are very excited about it.

 

Austin has been learning the concept of even and odd numbers, how to count by 10s and how to count by 2s.

 

Last Friday, Gavin practiced painting like Giotto by using soft pastels to draw on rocks.

Adelaide continues to be hard at work doing 'school'.

Austin is halfway done with his kindergarten math book already.  He is flying right through it!

On this day he was working more on even and odd and counting skills.  Then we played a even/odd matching game.

 

The boys made Viking runes out of salt dough.

After shaping a tablet they carved the runes into the dough.

Adelaide really enjoys puzzles right now.

And she loves to play with Minnie Mouse!

On Monday a praying mantis got caught between the glass door and the screen so we had a nice long look at him.

Gavin read about King Alfred the Great so we made King Alfred cakes.  They turned out really good but the kids ate them before I remembered to take a picture of the finished product!

Gavin learned how they use radar to map the surface of Venus.  I put balled up paper into the bottom of a shoe box and covered it with a cloth.  Then he divided it out into boxes and poked a skewer through each box to check the depth.  I had drawn four inches on the skewer in different colors to compare depths.

He recorded the color (depths) into his science journal.

The kids made Viking masks.

 

And today Gavin learned about Christian symbols in early medieval artwork and then used watercolors to make his own knight horse with shepherd and lamb nearby.