Homeschool Week 3/16 - 3/20

This week we began studying Julius Caesar in history. Here is Maria's narration on what we read this week.




Maria got back to chemistry this week.

Maria was inspired to to make an abstract watercolor painting this week :)

I usually only post about the kids' history, science, and art, but we do study other things! These 2 pages are Cati's spelling test for the week. Our spelling program doesn't just test 10 words in a list each week. The girls write 12 sentences (over 2 days) from dictation for their spelling test for each lesson. I think it's great because it automatically reviews words for previous lessons. I've also found that it's not too hard for kids to spell words correctly when they're focused on a certain list. But, they have much more trouble when they have to use the same words in a sentence. This spelling program has been so great!

This was Cati's 1st lesson on "consonant+le" words.

Cati made a watercolor painting of our family yesterday :)

Here is Maria doing her favorite thing...reading! She read "The Secret Garden" this week. She didn't finish the narration, so I don't have anything to post for it. She really enjoyed the book and chose to read it during her "Free Reading" time this week, too.

Cati started reading "The Little House on the Prairie" this week.

Just in case any of you were worried about Chiara being neglected when the new baby comes, you can see that she always has the arms and laps of her other 2 mothers to go to :)

Finally, I have a video of Matteo giving ME a math lesson this week!