On Monday, Drew made a shield to go with the Psalm 18:16 we studied on Monday. I like how his history box for the last day of every unit uses scripture to go with what we've studied. As we ended our study of people crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Spain to Florida we read about God being a refuge and a rock. We talked about what it may have meant for these brave people trusting God to get them to the new land and what it means in our lives when we live as He is our rock.
D really enjoyed creating his shield (and he made a sword, too). He wrote "God is My Rock!" above the dark rock. He also made himself creeping out from behind the rock. It's so hard to see in the pic below because of the glare of the foil, but he did a great job. The shield and sword now reside in his room. :o)
We had school on Tuesday, but my camera battery needed recharging and I had yet to get it recharged so no pics. :o(On Wednesday we spent 3 hours at the pool with our h/s co-op which was a lot of fun since the public schools had their first day of school that day! Another perk of homeschooling. ;o)
Today for D's poetry copywork I cut a "poetry line size" hole in a piece of paper to help him see only one line of poetry. He really liked this and even though copying poetry isn't his favorite thing to do, the paper with the hole made it a little more bearable today. ;o)
We're using the small marker board most days for his spelling (other than day 4 of the unit when he takes his "test"). He told me on Tuesday when we began Unit 2 that "these words are harder" as I had switched from List 1 to List 2. He's spelling most of them correctly so I know they're not too easy and not too hard for him. I think we'll stick with List 2 this year. 
I realized after his work was assessed this past year, that I had nothing to show the evaluator for science...other than the plans in the LHFHG guide. So this year I created our own science notebook page that he can fill in for each day we do a science activity.We went back today and caught up from two activities last week (ocean currents & blubber). Since he doesn't enjoy writing, I had him dictate what he learned (bottom lines) for now. He fills in the unit/day at the very top and draws the picture to go with his activity.
Below is the page for the "blubber" experiment...
Today's science activity was about how flying squirrels fall to the ground - gliding down as opposed to going "splat" as D would say. He crumpled one piece of paper and dropped it. Then dropped a flat piece of paper. The flat piece obviously "glided" down and the crumpled piece fell straight to the ground.
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