Week 18

We're on Christmas vacation!  Yay!  On our last day of school before vacation, we enjoyed making cookies, making an ornament and finishing our Christmas lapbook.  Here are some pictures I took during the day.  Enjoy!

 

Gingerbread cookies!

Look at those serious faces!  Decorating cookies is serious business! LOL



 

 

Covering a glass ball with fabric and mod podge.  They turned out very pretty!

 

The kids completed a lapbook on the symbols of Christmas.  We worked on this for about a week.  They did a great job!









 



 



Week 17

We started off our week with a trip to the planetarium in Florence.  The Dooley Planetarium is on the Francis Marion University campus.  The program was about "The Star of Christmas".  It was very interesting and we all enjoyed the program. 

 

We really liked the reclining seats!

 

 

 

 

The whole group!  Lots of homeschoolers!

 

 

I had to beg for one more picture.  "Tween"agers are not very cooperative sometimes.  LOL 

 

 

The rest of our week was spent doing our regular stuff.  We are also working on a few Christmas projects.  We only have 3 more days until Christmas vacay!!!  Yay!!!  





Week 16

We made it through another week.  A few days closer to Christmas vacation! Yay!  We have been working on Christmas poems and a Christmas story.  On Monday, we are going to the Dooley Planetarium in Florence.  On, Tuesday, we will start our Christmas lapbook.  We are looking forward to a more relaxed schedule as we enjoy some Christmas activities. 

Week 15

Well, Thanksgiving came and went by way too quickly.  We started the Middle Ages and watched parts of a documentary on the Dark Ages.  Boy, were they dark!  Lots of violence and sickness.  A very rough time to have lived.  It's actually called the Dark Ages because very little is known of the time period.  Things were not written down.  Nothing else really exciting going on.  We're ready to start our count down to Christmas vacay!  Our last day before Christmas break is December 19.  Sure does seem late, but I guess it'll give us something to do while we wait.