Week 24 of Homeschool: In honor of Presidents Day, we read about the Presidents and re-created national landmarks with paper, looked at the geography of more European countries, learned Newton’s Third Law of Motion and performed experiments with screws, nails, apples and pencils to see how simple machines work, read about Japan and made our own Daruma Otoshi game and a carp windsock, diagrammed sentences, learned about how the United Nations began, had fun coloring Narnia scenes, studied Latin first conjugation future tense endings, went on a nature scavenger hunt, learned 5 noun cases, went to our first Certificate of Merit test for piano performance, music theory and ear training (Field), played softball (Francis), learned how to find the area of a triangle, and brought home our new sweet puppy Lucy!