Homeschool Week 3/2 - 3/6

We had a good week. Dany was on Spring Break, so our schedule was a bit more relaxed than usual :) Spring break at St. Vincent also meant that the kids didn't have their classes there on Friday afternoon.

In history this week, we learned about the Punic War between Rome and Carthage.
Here is Maria's map showing Hannibal's route from Carthage, through Spain and Gaul, down across the Alps and to Rome.

Here is Cati's coloring page about Hannibal.

And, here his Cati's narration about the Punic War (in my handwriting).





Here is Maria's narration on St. Therese of the Child Jesus, based on this book:





(Maria really wants to use this regular lined paper, but it doesn't do good things for her handwriting :) She'll get used to it eventually.)

Maria's still been working on her pointelism that she became interested in during her last art class at St. Vincent.

Cati finished her Bee lapbook on Tuesday. Here is a picture and video of her Bee lapbook.

She started a lapbook about butterflies on Wednesday. Here are some library books that she read this week about butterflies.

Maria has to complete a Health credit for the district homeschool requirement, so that's what she worked on for science this week. No pictures :)

Here is Matteo keeping himself entertained during the school day :)

Cati wanted me to take a video of her playing the piano :)

Here is a video of Cati and me playing a game during math this week, the Attribute Train game. We had one large and one small circle, square, rectangle, and triangle in 4 different colors (green, red, yellow, and blue). You can see the pieces here:

We divided these pieces between the two of us randomly and took turns placing pieces. To to place the next piece of the train, your piece could only differ from the one before it by one attribute.

Here are Chiara and Matteo playing with Dany (who got to come since he was on Spring Break) during the girls' gym class on Thursday.

Look! Cati's really starting to swim!!!

Here is Chiara waiting patiently with Papa for the kids to get changed after swimming lessons. She's getting so big!!!




That's all I have for this week! Have you noticed how close that baby ticker at the top of the blog page is getting to the end ?!?!?! Baby Elena will be here before we know it :)

I added a new link showing the curriculum that the kids are using this year. It's on the right side of my blog page. I'm always so excited when I figure out how to do something like this :) :)