We have a week left of school! (Well, at least our more formal form of school) School never stops, really I have plans for a math facts challenge and reading minutes challenge for the Summer. Anyway, we are all excited for a more flexible schedule.
We are wrapping up our year with a few projects. Our Social Studies focus this year was World Geography. So, we are planning on having a country fair displaying our lap books and other work from around the world. We also have a test on all of the countries we were identifying in the Geography game. We took the same test (mom and dad included) at the beginning of the year, with comical results. It will be fun for the Girls to see how many countries in the World they know now. In a combined Science/Geography project the girls are making a model of all of the geography terms we learned this year from our "Geography A-Z" book. Science was learning about ecosystems this year and many of the terms we learned go hand in hand with Geography. Love integration! The girls are also finishing up reports for English. Lindsay is doing a report on England and Leslie is doing a report on Koalas. They chose their topics from things they wanted to learn more about from Geography or Science. The girls completely pushed to do these reports, it wasn't in the plan but I went with it. That is one of the great things about home school, If the girls want to pursue something, I can let them run with it!
We are trying to finish out our Math books, but it looks like we will be leaving a few lessons for the beginning of next year. They are so close but as the weather is getting better and Summer is almost here, it is harder to get them to focus on math lessons. We want to be able to say we are done with school on the 14th so whatever is done by then is where we will end it.
Finally, the girls will end the year with their state-required testing. WA state requires that each homeschooler over 8 must take a standardized test. I am having Leslie tested even though she doesn't technically have to. I don't put much stock into the results of these but I am always interested to see the results. Having looked at the practice test, I am pretty confident the girls will do well.
I will finish with some pictures of the last few months. It has been fun! And I am looking forward to next year, but ready for the break!
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| Lindsay works on her geography model |
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| Koala treats while studying Australia (didn't work out great) |
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| We discovered an online American Girls club via currclick.com |
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| Making Fabrege Eggs in Russia |
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| A visit to the Pacific Ocean while studying oceans in science, we saw a whale!! |
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| We made Babushka Dolls for Russia |
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| Origami in Japan |
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| Our volcano model |
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| The final volcano for some reason I didn't get a pic of the eruption. |
