Week 8

Sunday- Dia De Los Muertos!  We love the downtown library's celebration of day of the dead.  There is authentic food, music, alters, crafts, and facepainting all for free. It's a great way to learn about Latin America.

 Sugar skulls

 Alters

Monday- 

Crazy hat day at HaSP.

Dia De Los Muertos leftover coloring fun.

Halloween party at a friend's house.

Tire swing fun with Haley

Tuesday- First the first time ever I'm throwing out curriculum.  The spelling was not working for us.  We are simplifying. Say it, build it, write it. Done!  Testing will be each Friday.  I'm also bringing back more games and letting the kids choose the books they want to read.  Reading the same book every day was not working for us.  We're keeping the exploratory reading, poetry, and reading comprehension but everything else is gone! The new routine worked great.  Everyone enjoyed our new flow.

 Spelling

Working on rhyming 

 sight words

 Handwriting

 story time

snap circuts

New guitar!

Wednesday- Stay at home! Lots of creative learning today!

 Spelling work

 Letter Blend Bingo

 Both kids made up their own games.

 Snap curcits

 Navaho rug making

Working on igneous rocks

 Maddy and Westin at the YMCA while caiden was at guitar practice.

AWANA occupation night.  Caiden was a film maker maddy was a vet.

Thursday- We did Rez life and then finished school at home.  Then the kids had their first swim lesson at goldfish swimming.  Maddy loved it but Caiden cried in class.  New things sometimes overwhelm him.  But he finished the lesson. So i'm supper proud of him!

Friday- We went to the public museum with a friend to see the new whale exhibit and for special Native american activities. Which is awesome because we're studying native american culture all year long!  After the museum we went to McDonalds for lunch then came home and finished school while westin napped.

Cornhusk dolls

Learning about native american food.

grinding corn

lecture on Michigan's native americans.

Learning about wild rice

Native american dancing and drumming

After a dancing and druming demo they invited the kids to join the dance with dance sticks and shawls.

 They didn't want us to take pictures inside the exhibit so we took a pic outside.

Lunch after the museum

We finished our pilgrim study with this video today.

We've been working on the suffix ing this week with this game.

Maddy started reading Piggie and Gerald books this week.

Caiden's been reading level 2 readers.