Saturday, August 11, 2018

The rest of our homeschool year of 2018

With many interruptions and new things we managed to finish our year (kind of)... So the second part of year consisted of the following: ( There is a lot we did)

Spring Started


We had odd socks for Down Syndrome day

This a video of the human body we made



Learning to draw like the first monks -  Ulimination


The kidney

Learning to play Chess

Playing a game to learn the body parts



We made the skeleton - it can glow in the dark

Jac wanted his own drivers licence.


Easter is here

The first of April

Books we used to learn about the body



Viking game

9 Moris - a game the vikings played
 We decided to invite some real "Vikings" for dinner at the end of our Viking chapter for homeschooling. 

Potatoes

Viking meat

playing 9 Moris



The Viking family and us

Some kind of potato pancakes (Special Viking food)

Girl Scouts planting flowers at the school

Some more flowers going into the ground
 We had a Spring Break and went to Bitola and explored 3 ancient cities on the way.  The first one was Stobi!




Our second city was Heracleas



Fun in the national park

visiting the pottery musuem


The pottery museum in Prilep

Icy Prespa lake
 Exploring some really old cities.












This is where all the ancient cities are in Macedonia
 Back after Easter break we continued with school.  Making the eye and the skin.



Our Ancient Rome lapbook








Learning about the brain and the bones....

The teeth
 And then the Barbarians started to invade!!!!!




This is how your blood flows!


We started to learn about Islam. So I figured this is a good time to learn a little more about the faith and I got these lapbooks from Imam homechooling.  About the 5 pillars, the life of Mohammed and also about the significance of Friday. It was really interresting.
















 This is our Viking Lapbook we made















The bones in your fingers.... for art.

We did Haydn, among others for Music appreciation














For art we did mosaic that you draw.











 Then we moved onto the middle ages - and the Celts and the English....and the French









This is part of the Battle of Hastings Tapestry


Building a Castle

It is done



Some more Ilumination art and some Japanese Art

China art

Eating "Chinese"




Our Terracotta Army


Our timeline book

This was supposed to be Chinese Rice.... ha ha


Trying to make a zen garden.... didn't work


Our sand was not the right type

3 min noodles will count as any Asian dish.... Right?


How big is a whale?

Can you see Jac and the dog.... this is how big a whale is.

Science - Ocean science... cool

The wave of ....Kanagawa

Mount Fugi and the ancient Dragons

Learning about Russia




 The Cub Scouts went fishing.....



We got these kits to find your blood-type... After a long time figuring out how to do it... it didn't really work...But we had fun trying







Working on some Cub Scout Science requirements

Learning about Giotto


The Girl Scouts had they Backyard camping at our house






Working on some requirements







Our last stretch of homeschooling before we moved to another house.  We did and Explorers Unit Study.


Chereni built a tower

Our history timeline book is getting along smoothly

Working on some Michelangelo paintings



Neo-Rie's Art

Zane's Art

Jac's Art



Weekend of Cub Scout Camping in Ohrid.












Our cat had kittens..... Again....


Renaissance, Reformation, Spain, Africa, Australia, South America, India..... all the ancient civilizations and more






























So the year came to an end.... with most of our work done....  Our new year will start soon... and we will focus this year on South African History and books from there.   We will catch up on Maths and Science.