Week 7 of Homeschool: We learned new Latin words, built a wooden crane, practiced math while playing Allowance, wrote a paper about Benjamin Franklin’s important papers, built a marble rollercoaster, put together every United States puzzle in the house (!), watched The Miracle Worker and started reading Helen Keller’s “The Story Of My Life,” learned about Lewis and Clark’s covered-wagon trek and built our own, learned the basics of fractions and division, drew a self-portrait (Francis), marked every conjunction in John Chapter 1, colored the Headman Flag from early American history, compared quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, worked on Conjunctions, practiced our editing skills, and did schoolwork while sipping Maple lattes and steamers at Peets!
