My Weekly Notebook: Easter Week

Life last week...

It was a week of some wild weather! We didn't get any snow in our area, but there were reports of snow very close around us in many places one day. In fact, it was our co-op day so we had a late start that day due to some families being in the snowy areas. Then, for the rest of the week, it was hail, rain, wind, sunshine, hail, dark ominous clouds, and sunshine over and over again. And kinda chilly. I was cold all week.

Homeschool last week...

I thought this page that Alex worked on in his Doodle Your Day workbook was kinda fun. It was Scrabble Day on April 13 apparently, so we had to come up with some high-scoring words. This was fun to think about. 

 

 

Mom-school last week...

I worked on my Brain Games book a little this week and drew a bunny on this page. I used a little tutorial to draw the bunny, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I need to do more drawing lessons for sure, but this wasn't bad!

 

Places we're going and people we're seeing...

We finally took a field trip to a chocolate factory to finish off our chocolate unit study. It was pretty awesome. They talked about the whole process from Cacao pod all the way to chocolate. We even got to taste some beans, nibs, 100% cacao with no sugar, and lots of samples of chocolate with sugar. Oh and cacao nib tea too. Some of the things we tasted were just a little too weird for me, but it was fun to see. I highly recommend checking out a chocolate factory near you if you have one. So fun!

Chomp! Chocolate factory in Salem, OR

Things I'm working on... 

I am working on making these signs for decoration. They are Educational Decrees from the 5th Harry Potter book. I am going to laminate them to hang up for our movie night when we finish the 5th book. I think it will add some fun to our movie experience, and I like how they are looking so far.

Random things the kids worked on... 

Alex decided to work on some art for a homeschool art show, and he decided he wanted to do dot art, so he made this cat that turned out pretty cute. We ended up not being able to go to the art show, but I'm super proud that he tried.

 

Something I accomplished...

I made these outdoor prompts from 1000 hours outside challenge. These are just the prompts for the month of April. There are prompts for the whole year, so I will hopefully be changing this jar out each month.

 
 

What we're reading...

We are still mostly listening to Harry Potter Book 5 when we get the chance. It's a long one, and we we're excited to watch the movie. We are also listening to Milton Hershey (the YWAM, Heroes of History version). 

We also read this Physics book from Basher Science for part of Alex's science journal time. This is a fun book to read to learn about physics.

 

I read some of this Gardening book for myself. I am working through the gardening journal and this one came up when I searched for books about gardening. I love the pictures in it! And, the story about gardening from the beginning of time is pretty fascinating.

 

Movies/TV we watched... 

We watched the new Spiderman movie. No Way Home. It was pretty good! Aric had been waiting for a very long time to see it.

I'm cooking/eating... 

We ate a delicious Easter brunch on Sunday morning. It was a lot of already prepared foods, so I didn't have to cook a lot. 

Easter brunch

Other thoughts from last week... 

It was crazy sock week at clogging so I picked up some fun llama socks. Unfortunately I didn't get the best picture, but it's still a picture!

 

I'm grateful for...

Wildcraft game that we played last week! It was our first time playing.

Game time for school!