Getting it done!

Yesterday was a very busy homeschool day.  We got alot of work done and accomplished so much!  We wrapped up our second system of the human body by making a Circulation Wheel and coloring the blood red or blue depending on whether it was full of oxygen or depleted.  In Story of the World we began Ancient Africa, which looks to be fun with all the projects to do for this unit like paper beads and musical instruments.  I am hoping to find some kind of food that we can make too that Dakota will actually eat.  We have a short day today and I have to help a friend tomorrow so he will be doing some independent work and then Friday is our 100 days celebration so I supposed the fun stuff will be waiting til next Tuesday, but I am excited about it.

Dakota started reading our Little Golden Books Disney classics and began with Peter Pan.  He also read more of his Kindle book about Walt Disney World and played a little MathBlasters.  We did a regular math unit, did a spelling unit, put on some Disney music and danced and sang and acted goofy for awhile.  He finished his Chinese New Year papers and then did Zodiac Calligraphy and Red Envelope Glitter Painting. He loves anything to do with painting!  His BrainPopJr movie and quiz counted as history since it was about Harriet Tubman and we are wrapping up our Black History month.

Today is a short day for us since we have a special treat, meeting friends at Chuck E. Cheese at noon.  Co-op was canceled so Dakota was asked to do his afternoon work scheduled for today independently this morning before we leave and he's been working for about 30 minutes now.  He has a Magic School Bus video to watch "Going Cellular" as we introduce our new mini unit on cells, a book on the heart, blood and cells to read, Little Golden Books Alice in Wonderland and a Berenstain Bears book.  He has a review lesson to do in Math, his spelling words that he got wrong to write 2x each and use in a sentence and that's it.  Off we go!

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