This week in math Austin practiced copying shapes using the reflector.   I made a shape on the geoboard on one side of the reflector, and he made the reflection of the shape on the other side.  He learned that a reflection is not an exact copy of something, but that something backwards.

 

Austin and Adelaide spend a lot of time playing together.  This week they pretended to be superheroes.

Gavin continued to work on his feudalism diorama.  This week he finished the king and queen level.  He began by using a sponge to paint stones on the shoebox.

Adelaide really likes these counting puzzles and worked on them several days.

She also did this dress the bears puzzle.

Austin continued working on recognizing and grouping numbers.  He took several handfuls of tiles, put them in groups of five so they would be easier to count, then counted them and showed the number using place value cards and on the abacus.

Adelaide played with the counting pegs this week too. 

Here is Gavin's feudalism diorama so far.

Finally in math, Austin used the reflector to make reflections of shapes using the tiles.

Saturday we went to the Renaissance Festival.  We had a good time even though it was very muddy due to all the rain we've been getting.  Gavin played a couple games of chess with the chess master monks.

The boys took fencing lessons again this year.

Gavin got sent to the stocks.  I thought we might use a set of these at home...

Austin wanted nothing to do with the stocks but he did decide to be Henry VIII.  Much wiser I thought.

As always, we enjoyed the jousting.

Gavin did his best to slay the dragon again this year.

Austin worked up the courage to try it too.  I was very proud of him!

Overall we had a really good time as always!