End of Year Review!

This is our last week of school!  Yay!  We made it!  We used the week to go back and review everything we covered over the past year.

On Monday, we enjoyed the beautiful morning, and spent some time outside, as we did everyday, with our new chickens.

Once we were in the school room we reviewed the fables.  Grant and I went back to August of last year, and going through his lesson book, we looked at the pictures Grant drew, and he read all the summaries he wrote from the fables.

I also read the kids this book:

On Tuesday, we reviewed the months, seasons, days of the week, and analog time.  Once again, we went back through Grant's lesson book and looked at all the drawings and summaries Grant wrote.  We also pulled out the clock we made, and we used it to review telling time.

I also read the kids another butterfly story from here.

On Wednesday, we reviewed the Saints stories, and went back through our "Watercraft of the World" Math Block, and reviewed all the new concepts we learned there. 

I read the kids this book:

Since we have been reading all the butterfly books, it seemed like a good time to take a field trip to the butterfly house on Thursday.

We also saw these cute little guys on the way out.

On Friday, I read this kids this story, and then we made some tissue paper butterflies which I will add string to so we can hang them.

Our caterpillars also arrived on Friday.  We are looking forward to watching them change into butterflies!

Whew!  We covered a lot of material this past school year.  Some days were challenging, but as I look back, it seemed like it went by so fast!  I am looking forward to a little break and doing some handwork, tackling my list of "projects" (hopefully some of them anyway), and doing some reading before I dive into planning for next year.