This was our review week. We did a short review of the planets and earth, including continents and ocean names. Cedrik knows their names well but has forgotten a couple of their placements in the map.
Freddie did awesome (understatement!) matching colors. I can safely say that I don't think he's color blind anymore. :)
We counted some rocks and also organized them into which shape they most looked like. Cedrik decided that tracing their outline would help a lot, and it did. He traced the rocks he had a harder time sorting and he finished easily.
We learned a tiny bit about Brigham Young (2nd latter-day prophet).
We did some writing, and letter learning for Freddie (phonics of m, a, c, t). Cedrik had a letter "r" sheet and decided to do almost the whole thing-without prompting from me! I asked him which one he felt was the best he wrote, and he circled all of them.
We also started our month with a new artist and musician. Marco Dall'aquila is our musician from the 1400s, a lutist. It is a very different sound than the piano, obviously, and I can't tell yet if the boys like it. We are studying Michelangelo as our artist. This week we started with painting upside down (as it turns out Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel standing up, not lying down). We studied The Creation of Adam. Jordan thought I should have chosen something else because Adam is nude in the painting; I don't see a reason to hide it. The boys actually didn't seem to notice, or if they did it didn't matter to them. They were much more interested in Michelangelo's version of Heavenly Father. This also allowed us to read a few verses from Genesis to see where he received the inspiration for this fresco.
Cedrik had a major meltdown when he realized they were painting under the table, flat on their backs. Eventually, he decided to just try "one time" and ended up loving it and using all the paint in his bowl. They didn't paint anything specific, just free style. :)
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