Week 29 - More Maps and Serving Others

It was another busy homeschool week in our house!  Monday we had a playdate with our homeschool group at an awesome indoor playground.  Big K and Little E ran and played for about three hours and had a blast!  It's always fun to get together with other homeschool families, and this outing was no exception.  We've made some great friends through this group and Big K is always excited to see them again.

This week we also had a special opportunity to serve lunch at a local Salvation Army soup kitchen with our 4H club.  The bigger kids cooked the food while the Cloverbuds wrapped silverware, seated guests, and served food.  Big K and Little E took their jobs very seriously and I think the afternoon made quite the impact on them!  Afterwards we had a 4H club meeting.  Big K got his project book for this year's fair.  His project is called "Let's Start Cooking" and he is anxious to get started! 

We are also still waiting for several state packages to arrive from our online state swap group.  As we wait, we decided that we would turn the information we DO have into a collage for each state.  Then we will put them all together to make a fun book about the states.  We learned about what a collage was, how to make one, and then took brochures and maps from each of the states we have received (or things we collected ourselves from states we have visited) to make a page full of all the things we think are important.  Here is one that he made about Tennessee: 

 

I love that he included a picture of Elvis.  He wasn't sure who he was as we were looking through the brochures, so we had a mini lesson on Elvis and spent the afternoon listening to some Elvis music on Spotify!  However, making this collage has convinced BigK that we need to go visit Tennessee - and he insists we need to go in June or July.....  (Can you look at the collage and guess why?)

We also discovered a really great new show on Netflix about the states.  It is called "How the States Got Their Shape" and talks all about why the boarders of each state are they way they are.  It is really interesting and we've learned some awesome facts about the states and their neighbors!  

In other news, this week we finished the third book in our math series.  We had originally planned on taking a bit of a break with our math curriculum and spending some time just really drilling in those addition and subtraction facts, but Big K is BEGGING to go ahead a start the next book, so who am I to stand in the way of learning? 

As the weather warms up, we've also been blessed to be able to actually get outside and play a bit this week.  We are looking forward to many more outdoor explorations in the weeks to come for sure!  Little E did notice that we have "little green things" poking through the ground in our flower beds this week and is anxiously watching our daffodils grow!  Every day she goes out to see how much bigger they are.  I can't wait to see her reaction when the bloom! 

We are so excited that it finally feels like spring! 

Happy Learning,
Momma C