These cute little pumpkins were painted by Reagan (left) and Mary (right). Reagan's is a tri-clops, inspired by Avery's math lesson about triangles and the prefix "tri".
Avery chose to work on top of the washing machine, he had a bit of trouble with accuracy due to the spin cycle.
These are the projects the kids did at their classes. Avery and Mary made trees of different seasons, and Reagan made a watercolor still life collage of a vase of flowers. 
And Jameson made this masterpiece, he learned about blue this week.
I write several words and draw a picture and he has to point to the word that matches the picture. He is also learning about nouns, so we spent some time discussing nouns as the names of places: kitchen, mountain, playground, store, etc. He also wrote a book using some of his spelling words:
The Fat Cat by Avery Gray
The fat cat sat on a bat on top of a red bed.
And here is something he did for math: he built a tower from base 10 blocks and we counted how many there were used number cards to form the number: 9938.
Reagan is learning about fractions and percents in math. And he was very pleased to get 100% on his spelling test. He made up a story for grammar.
Mary learned the letter K, and worked diligently in her Explode the Code workbook.
We finally had a full week so we got a chance to get into a weekly flow for our afternoon subjects (mornings are for math and language arts). Monday was history day, Reagan worked on a map of China from the Story of the World. And we finished listening to volume 3, so I guess I need to order the next volume, which covers modern history. Avery started First Timeline, which covers a biography of a historical figure each week in chronological order. He liked looking at the timeline and the discussion we had about history being the story of our ancestors.
Tuesday was science. We had the Montessori First Great Lesson, a story of the earth's beginnings, and I was pleased that the kids remembered a lot of it from last year. Here is a picture of one of the experiments, oil, water and honey seperated into layers:
This lesson has already triggered a lot of interest in volcanoes, astronomy, and other earth science topics. I have stack of books from the library and I am hoping to get the boys going on some research projects. I am really excited about the Great Lesson format for introducing topics, I wrote a lengthy post about it here and I have some exciting plans for this year!
We also covered the next chapter in our Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry text, which discussed chemical reactions. Of course for our lab Reagan and Avery mixed substances from the kitchen (vinegar, egg white, baking soda, salt, etc) and observed and recorded the results. They were looking for one of the four signs of a chemical reaction: bubbles, color change, temperature change, or precipitate. 
We also got a chance to look at Jupiter through our borrowed telescope, it was pretty cool! The boys were excited to point out several constellations after I figured out we were holding the star chart upside down :)
On Wednesday we have co-op classes with our homeschool group, Art and Science Lab for Reagan and a preschool/kindergarten class for Avery and Mary.
Thursday afternoons we have teatime- the boys bake a treat and discuss the Sunday Gospel reading. Sometimes we also incorporate poetry, music and art appreciation at this time.
Friday we just started nature study, using the Outdoor Hour Challenges from this blog. This week we learned about trees. We had a picnic at a local park and walked around observing trees, discussing the function of their various parts, and Reagan used a tree finder guide to identify a Bur Oak. It was a lovely day to get outside!
So that was our week!
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