School highlights from April

I was dragging a little in April. We had no field trips (this is our first month ever without any). But looking back, we did learn a lot together.

We usually do an art project on Monday just for fun. But we only did this one this month. It is a fun window decoration made from paper towels and watered down watercolors.

In science we are loving our astronomy experiments! Learning about lava on Venus, as well as making a model of Olympus Mons from Mars. The guys added their own Martians on their Mars model.
Our artist this month was Monet and we studied his paintings of his lily pond. We read some fabulous books. My favorite was Linnea in Monet's Garden (Schactner).

We learned to draw Viking ships as we studied stories of their influence in Europe during the Middle Ages.

Other highlights were learning about Johannes Brahms, drilling multiplication facts (and seeing results), J wrote his first research paper on Walt Disney, we read lots and lots of fairy tales from Faerie Gold: Treasures from the Land of Enchantment (Ranelda Mack Hunsicker and Kathryn Lindskoog), and we have almost finished learning the names and locations of the European countries. Other than that, just plugging along in phonics, math, reading, spelling, grammar, Latin, etc. Only 4 more weeks of school left!