byzantine empire & lego learning

Today is the first day that A hasn't had preschool.  We decided she was ready to be done going mornings to her preK class because she's developmentally ready to do harder work and, quite frankly, I don't want to be running around when winter comes.  She's been very excited about the idea of staying home and doing school with X so I'm hopeful that it'll work out well.


This morning we started out doing Lego school using materials from here and the redirect to the lapbook on the same site.  The kids worked mostly on math skills with this project.  The did estimating, measuring with legos, measuring with a tape measure, and graphing the colors of legos.  A also did some handwriting copying the color words.  She started to get bored so she went off and played with some army men for a bit ;)  While she was doing that, X finished up some language arts work from last week.  He worked on dictionary skills, looking up spelling words and writing down the number of meanings those words have.


Then we started working together again using Story of the World we are studying the Byzantine Empire.  Specifically Justinian and Theodora.  I totally lucked out because at after-Christmas shopping yesterday I found this mosaic kit on clearance so it was perfect timing!  A was particularly impressed to learn that Theodora was a wool spinner before she became the Empress!  While X worked on the mosaic and A colored some paper dolls of Justinian and Theodora, I read the history book telling the story as well as the Byzantine story of Saint Nicholas (again, perfect timing since Christmas was just a couple days ago!)  After lunch we'll be working on some math and reading then it'll be off to theater rehearsal this evening.  Busy day!


LEGO SCHOOL

LANGUAGE ARTS

BYZANTINE EMPIRE