Weekly Roundup July 23-27, 2012

We tried something a little different this week - a four day week.  In science this week we talked about air as matter.  We proved through our experiments that air takes up space and has weight (technically mass, but we haven't talked about gravity yet, so I didn't go into that much detail with them!)  Here is our demostration showing that a balloon filled with air is heavier than an empty balloon.

The boys also got to spend some quality time on the playground with their cousin on Thursday.

The one school-related thing we did on Friday was our history project - a model of the Nile River.

This was both of the boys' favorite activity of the week.  They definitely love history!

Both boys are doing well in math.  Isaac just finished his first unit in Singapore 2A.  He made a 100 on his Unit 1 Chapter 3 Test and will take the Unit 1 Cumulative Test on Monday.  Ethan has been flying through Singapore 1A so quickly that I forgot to check the front of the HIG for when to take the tests!  It's odd that the 2A HIG puts the tests in the lesson plans, but the 1A HIG does not.  So, Ethan will spend a lot of next week reviewing what we have covered by taking the 3 tests we have skipped.  He is getting close to finishing Unit 3.

The boys are also loving the Salsa Spanish videos and their Latin lessons.  It was another great week for us!