Weeks 3 & 4 of the Bauslaugh academy.

Weeks 3 & 4 were spent studying the geography of the United States. The girls worked on becoming familiar with all 50 states. Leslie's goal was to get a basic understanding and just to be able to name a few states. She had about 25 states memorized by the time we finished. Lindsay's goal was to memorize every state and be able to locate as many as possible. Both did very well. In art, we made sand art like the Navajo Native Americans and quilt patterns like early pioneers. We had a field trip planned for after baby Walker's arrival to a museum at Lake Chelan that has artifacts from our pioneer ancestors. Kind of fun for the girls to explore. I would have loved to dig deeper into US history- but this year is more about geography- the history element comes in following years of the curriculum.

In science, the girls learned about forests. This made for some fun nature walks since we live in this particular biome. On our favorite walk, we used a tree id app to identify the trees in a park near my parents' house that has some great trees. Lindsay was excited to identify a western red cedar. They also had a field trip with their grand parents to Northwest Trek, a local wildlife preserve. Complete with a trip through old-growth Forrest. I don't have pictures of the trip though. :-(

Both girls finished up a unit in both English and Math. And we began spelling and reading curriculum.

I really enjoy how homeschooling has made me more aware of my children's strengths and weaknesses. I'm hoping to be able to give them the attention they need to turn their weaknesses into strengths!

After these two weeks, we had a planned 4 week break for the arrival of Baby walker.
Here are some pictures from weeks 3&4: