weekly wrap up 6/1/18 -- Baskets, Caesar, and co-op ends!

MarioFan has completed his Science for the year.  We finished Evolution and this semester have been concentrating on human evaluation.  We are going to take a short break on science and then we will do some more hand on activities as MarioFan prefers science experiments and he feels this past semester, in science has been lacking in that area.  Hard to recreate a lab on this evolution!

Last week was the official end of  coop so Art (for both kids), Spanish (MarioFan)and Literature are finished for the year!  IN one week MarioFan will be participating in his 8th grade graduation ceremony with our Coop!  My parents are flying in to visit and attend:)

Firedrake has her finals next week for her three classes in public school.  Since we ended the semester with all A's she once again was allowed to drop one final exam.  She chose to drop Algebra final this semester!

For our last literature session on Julius Caesar we had the boys play out many of the famous scenes and practice using the type of speech Shakespeare was known for.

found a great free resource on line that we used.

For our last session in Art the boys worked on weaving baskets.  No artist was chosen for this lesson but we thought it would be a fun last project.  

I brought in a few different types of baskets I have around the house.  Two on this table I made myself:) the other baskets are from parts of the world we have traveled too over the years.

Then I got to work teaching the boys how to weave a basket!

Once the base was made it got easier and even one of the boys (not mine) said it was actually relaxing and fun!

We ran out of time on this day so we agreed to met up again to finish our baskets!

I bought the boys a large cookie as a surprise for their last Official coop day.  They wolfed it down:)

Firedrake decided she wanted to dye her hair to celebrate finishing her first year of public school.  I love her gorgeous red hair so would only agree to having the ends done.  She loved it

she is getting lots of compliments:)

Next week is MarioFan fans 8th grade graduation and my parents are flying in to attend.