stuff going on

I’ve been trying to pick it up a little bit with our curriculum, because I feel like A is ready to take more on. So we’ve been learning about ancient Egypt in addition to our regular reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. Audrey is doing great so far, and seems to get pretty into whatever it is we are doing. We made a step pyramid out of sugar cubes, wrote about Egypt and drew pictures, and came up with some vocab words related to ancient Egypt. I really like coming up with ideas and doing school work with her. We are slowly adding some science in as well with a unit on the moon (she got one of those “moon in my room” lights for Christmas).

So everything is going as well as I can expect I guess. I’m about to go lay down with the little one, but wanted to pop on here for an update. I’ll try and take some pictures of recent projects to get posted on here, as well as the little school area I “renovated” (read: moved a couple little pieces of furniture around).

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We’re learning about ancient Egypt right now. Audrey really likes history. Honestly, it’s the only subject we’ve ventured into aside from reading, writing, and math. Still, I wasn’t sure she would get into it. She deals with the other subjects, but I can tell she would probably rather be doing something more interesting. She probably dreams of finding an open container of chocolate icing abandoned on the kitchen counter as I’m yammering to her about adding one turtle to another. So really, I figured this would sort of be another thing to muddle through- but she likes it!

Quick detour here as I make a mental note that I need to find some way to help Audrey feel less like she is muddling through her school work.

Ah, so anyway, we have been learning about ancient Egypt. She is thrilled with the idea of mummified cats. When we open the Egypt library books, she always asks if she can see the dead cats first. I can’t say I blame her, either. I think she enjoys hearing about daily life in the past as well. Trying to explain to her why a nomad couldn’t make noodley- noodles (aka ramen noodles) in the microwave was a big exhausting, but we got through it. We’re using Story of the World as a text and guide, but I add in projects and things to keep it interesting. So far we’ve been basing our vocabulary words off of our history lessons as well. She likes to do vocab and make a book out of the words, which she eagerly staples with her brand new AWESOMELY AMAZING BIG GIRL STAPLER that I got her for Christmas.

Anyway, that’s about all that’s going on here. We’re just trying to stay caught up with everything. I go back to school tomorrow (!!!) and that always puts a little more pressure on. Fingers crossed it works out ok!