Week 5 of Homeschool: We painted color wheels then created artwork using palettes, learned the forms of the verb “to be,” studied John 1:1-8 asking the 5 W’s and an H, practiced diagramming sentences, performed an experiment to see how our ears can hear direction, wrote a paper about the Boston Massacre, read Field’s current book “The Nostalgia Machine” out loud, learned five more states and capitals, performed an experiment to show how skin cells rub off, read about George Washington, looked at abstract art and created our own, assisted the teacher in our Tuesday Classical Conversations Essentials class, learned about the five main senses, practiced skip-counting 9’s and 10’s, went to Apple Hill, read in The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, went to the beach with our cousins, and celebrated Grampy getting another year older!