A few school photos

I loved Nora's "O" page in her Sing Spell Read and Write book - She made her name at the top with both upper and lower case letters, and the baby next to the psychedelic octopus is baby Oliver.

We had to stay home sick from one of our Classical Conversations school days, so a friend dropped off our science activity for us - dissecting crayfish!

Another highlight from last semester was our interview with our neighbor who is a zookeeper in the Birmingham Zoo's primate house!  We often do activities with another family of home-schoolers and they joined us for her visit.  The kids came ready with interview questions and our neighbor brought her insect collection and some bones she had found.

We've also had some fun art projects.  My friend found a great source of online, step-by-step art projects using various mediums (charcoal, watercolor, pencil, etc.) and copying different artistic styles (we've copied things like Monet's water lilies to ancient Egyptian art).

Since we are studying ancient history this year, we also tried to copy cave paintings.  It was a fun art experiment!  We crinkled up paper and then smoothed it out again to simulate the rough cave walls.  We talked about how we could make "paint" from natural items (but we just pretended and mashed up bits of watercolors in water), and used sticks, leaves, and whatever else the kids wanted to try to use to paint.  The kids got a big kick out of this project!