Week 2

This week Caden and I worked on the letter Bb and writing his last name. Last week was letter Ff and his first name. Caden's penmanship is really great. Grant says it already is better than mine!

We do a bible story each morning and then I ask him comprehension questions to make sure he's remembering the story. The one we spent the majority of time discussing was the story of Lot and his wife. He did not like that she turned into a pillar of salt.

Sonlight comes with a Book of Time timeline book.

We've filled in dates like Noah and the Ark, Abraham,

and will also use it for Presidents, wars etc.

This week we also studied the ancient Egyptians. We learned that the Egyptians would sometimes wear perfumed cones of grease on their heads for parties. The cones would melt and smell nice. Caden thought that was very interesting. They also had pet dogs and cats like us. When someone's cat would die, the owner would shave off half of their eyebrow to show how upset they were! We also studied the pyramids and what they thought about their Pharaohs' in the afterlife. We watched the 10 Commandments animated movie to see it all in action.

I made Caden this collar that looks similar to the gold ones they once wore. Egyptians LOVED jewelry! They wore cuffs, bracelets, earrings, rings and pendants of all kinds.

I put on Egyptian make-up to show Caden what it looked like. The men and women BOTH wore make-up. They put red on their cheeks and lips and grey, green or black "Kohl" thick around their eyes as well as eye shadow.

AND his math finally arrived! We received his first grade work book, text book,

Intensive practice and Challenging word problems books.

They are all really great and we've started the first lesson in each book.

For an impromptu TEXAS HEAT science experiment, we found a dead earwig bug and decided to see what would happen if we placed it's body under a magnifying glass in 102 degree heat. Well, after about 5 minutes the shell was a bright orange color and it was smoking.

After about 15 minutes it's little

legs actually burned off.

Then we proceeded with the HEAT experiment and cracked an egg on our driveway. Nothin!

We were disappointed to say the least. Hoping to fry the egg for our dog Maggie, alas, it was not to be - not today anyways!