HS: February

Where did February go?!!!  Seriously.  It was like a blink and it was gone!

This month we have continued to plug along with school.  In fact, school has been a huge blessing (and distraction) from some of the other things going on in our life right now.

FAMILY STUDY is amazing.  We are loving it so much and I am so grateful for it.  It is the absolute best way to start our day.  This month we have learned about Christ resisting the temptations of Satan and the beginning of Christ's ministry, Jesus turning water into wine, cleansing the temple, Nicodemus, the woman at the well, the Pharisees accusing Jesus of breaking the Sabbath, the calling of the Twelve Apostles, the Beatitudes, and the Sermon on the Mount.  AMAZING. 

LANGUAGE ARTS is going well.  It is Jacob's probably least enjoyed subject but he is learning so much.  This month we have learned about ER and EST words, poetry, OO words, homophones, nonfiction, EW words, compound words, and soft C and G sounds.  

Jacob also narrated a great story called, "Maxie, the Baby Polar Bear".  He was absolutely giddy about coming up with this.  It was adorable.  

We also did some literature studies with The Hero of Haarlem and discussing Parables.  

PRESCHOOL, is going so well for Sarah.  I have kind of been feeling blah about what we have been doing but I have decided that it's a really good segway to learning and even though I know she could handle more, what we have been doing is good too.  

This month, Sarah finished her unit about squirrels, thankfulness, and the color brown.  And today we finished her seventh unit!  This one was all about pandas, politeness, and the color blue.  

In HISTORY, we finished our unit on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance!  We only had one lesson left this month to finish up.  It was about the faithful French Huguenots.  I honestly don't remember ever learning about the Huguenots and that was so interesting to dive into this unit.  

We then started our third history unit which covers the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary War!  We were so excited to dive into a different period in history.  So far we have learned about New France, young George Washington, the French & Indian War, the reasons for a revolution, the Sons of Liberty, and the Boston Tea Party.  We've also started reading a book called, Martha Washington by Jean Brown Wagoner which we are really enjoying so far.  

In SCIENCE, we also finished our unit about Space!  This unit has been so fun and we have really enjoyed it.  To finish it up this month, we spent several days discussing space exploration and then talked about constellations.  We then wrapped up our unit by going on a field trip to the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake.  

We have now started our third science unit of this year, the human body!  Jacob is SO excited about this unit!  Some days he wants to be a doctor ;)  We've only just begun but so far we did an overview about our bodies and have discussed the skeletal system.  

MATH continues to go really well.  Jacob is just finishing up his third unit in math.  He will have his test next week and has done really well.  We are still focusing on numbers up to 20.  Our lessons this month have been about ordinal numbers to 20, reading and writing 11-20. telling time to the hour, odds and evens to 20, counting by twos to 20, a new fact family, counting by tens, counting by tens with dimes, and taking away from ten.  

HANDWRITING continues to go well and Jacob really has beautiful handwriting (when he wants to).  

For our READ ALOUDS this month, we finished Henry and Bessie: What They Did in the Country by Elizabeth Prentiss.  It was such a sweet book and we loved it.  We also just finished today, Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White.  This was such a fun book and we really enjoyed reading it.