Week 12 of Homeschool: We went on a plant nature walk and collected samples, learned about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, had fun doing math with our abacus, wrote poetry, skip counted the cubes, learned how to read a map grid, painted rocks, enjoyed the wonder and beauty of Lake Tahoe, worked on Spanish, practiced our Penmanship, studied 5th declension noun endings, learned about Emperor Constantine and the Byzantine Empire, played fun songs on our tin whistles, worked on Javascript, learned some more parts of a flower, and read about biology and found examples in nature, including salmon, a beaver dam, pond-ice, birds and and a bear!