We got Maxwell a puppy so that he had an excuse to get more exercise, and literally within minutes, he was chasing that puppy outside and slipped on some ice. He now has SEVEN screws and one plate attached to his bones, and he hasn't left our couch...so much for exercise!
And as for "gone," Dustin and I went on a quick anniversary weekend to Banff,
And now we are headed to Argentina! (Literally. I'm writing this in the airport.)
So yet again school will be put off...perhaps the month of June will have more school than planned to make up for all of this.
There was also family week. The rest of Alberta didn't have school, but of course we plugged on, but we didn't have the umph that we usually do because of the knowledge that everyone else was out.
They had family day at the Carriage house Museum, but it's not a free carnival anymore like it used to be.
Anyway, there have been some accomplishments.
Most notably, Hyrum and Daniel preformed their play!!! It was called "We are Monsters" and was super cute. It's amazing how much work goes into these things. They have been going twice a week since the beginning of the school year!
Hyrum and Daniel were werewolves, and of course they hammed it up, especially Hyrum. They loved being in the spotlight. About a second after the last show, Daniel asked when he could be in another play.
As for the usual subjects:
Science was canceled a few times because of sickness or family week, or whatever, but we did do some.
One week we learned about freezing and boiling points. We saw how adding ingredients (like salt) to water affected the freezing and boiling points. We also made "instant ice" which didn't work with the little kid class because my water wasn't cold enough at that point-blah. At least it worked with the olders.
Next class we learned about chromatography. We also did "walking water" as part of this, but as I was doing it, I kind of realized it wasn't chromatography, because instead of separating mixtures, we were putting things together, but oh well.
We also learned about crystals!!! We made borax crystals, sugar rock candy crystals and eggshell geodes. We also broke open some real crystal geodes.
Of course, the borax and sugar won't be ready for some time (actually, at this moment, the borax has been finished.) It ended up being A LOT of work for yours truly after the kids had gone: making super saturated solutions and containers with dangling crystal starters to make crystals in.
Honestly, I'm a little scared my sugar crystals won't work. I have the best recipe, but I didn't follow it because my pots were too full, and couldn't fit any more sugar, so I'm worried it doesn't have enough sugar.
As far as ancient history goes, we're in the middle of learning about Ancient Rome. Well guess who was born during ancient Roman times? Yep Jesus. Once every four years we land on the most important figure in history.
We learned about John the baptist first. Of course, one of the coolest things about him was that he grew up on the cuisine of locust, and it just so happened that Dustin had brought ready-to-eat crickets from his business trip! Oh the serendipity!
Not everyone was excited to try them though.
So then we made candy ones.
Then we learned about Jesus! Just the most important historical figure of all time. That's all. We did an ascension craft with Jesus going into the "clouds." Now Abraham is always talking about Jesus in the clouds. I haven't corrected this deep doctrine topic yet.
And for English, Abraham and William are DONE with All About Reading Pre-Reading level!! Now onto real reading. Although, I have a feeling we need to incorporate Ziggy the puppet into this next level, because they call it "Ziggy school" and would be quite put out if he went away.
And as a bonus, here's a drawing Daniel did in art....he swears he didn't trace at all, but it's so good that it's hard to believe him!
And here's me trying to be more productive in my life: my "to do, doing, and done" board
