A Long Winter

Clearly it was a long winter since I have not written since January.  What have we done?  Well, Madeline completed Primary Mathematics 1B and move on the Primary Math 2A.  She was very proud of herself for finishing level 1.  Isabella is also proud as she has moved to the second half of the kindergarten math curriculum.

We have also spent lots of time reading books from Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series.  The girls really enjoyed the adventures of Jack and Annie!  We have several more to read, but we took a break to read some Greek mythology.  We found these two books to be good resources:

The interest in Greek Myths was brought on by this Magic Tree House book:

We are now about to embark on a journey into Ancient Egypt, also a topic we read about in the Magic Tree House series in this book:

We will be using curriculum from The Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary for the study.  They have published "Ancient Egypt: Gift of the Nile".  Madeline is quite excited about the study.

I have ordered several of the books from this curriculum from our library along with some other resources and videos to supplement the curriculum.

We have done lots of activities as well, including dance classes, art classes, gymnastics, and most recently swimming lessons.

Well, I think that is all I can recall at the moment.  I am glad that spring is upon us.  We have started preparing our gardens for spring.  We want to be ready to attract Monarchs when they return.  We are looking forward to watching them!  

A Poem about Trees

We have been working on a poem about trees as part of the Beyond Words language arts unit by the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary. Here it is:

Trees Are Like

Trees are like cities because lots of different things live in them.

Trees are like flags because they blow in the wind.

Trees are like water waving around an island because they blow in the wind.

Trees are like Mr. Slurpy at the dentist because the roots of the tree slurp up water.

Trees are like chameleons because they change colors in autumn (also known as fall).

Tress are like lungs because they breathe.

Trees are like us too because we breathe and the trees breathe.

Trees are like an air filter because they clean the air.

Trees are good for the environment.

We would not survive without them.

If the trees did not make air we would die.

Try to help the trees.

Recycle or use both sides of your paper when you are drawing.

The end.