Weekly Wrap-up

History- (We are way behind here so we are just listening to chapters and discussing and moving on...)

Robert Baden Powell

• The Decline of the Ottoman Empire
• Ned Kelly- the "Robinhood" of Australia
• The Suez Canal- connected the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
• The Irish Potato Famine
• The Boer War, Robert Baden Powell and the first Boy Scouts
• Pedro the 2nd of Brazil (Caleb said, "Finally! A King who did something good for his people!")

Science- We finished our study of fish.

• Defenses- advertisement, camouflage, countershading, swimming in schools
• Life Cycle- egg, larva, post larva. juvenile, aduly
• Parts- gills, fins, nares, lateral line, swim bladder
• Shapes- fusiform (torpedo- like a shark), depressed (ray), compressed (angelfish), eel-like

Biography/picture study- John Singer Sargent

Poetry- Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott








Literature-

• Carry on Mr. Bowditch (all)
• Treasure Island (Ethan)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (Caleb)
• The Secret Valley (Adam)
• The Boy and the Goat (Abigail)
• The Monster in the Hollows (bedtime book for all)

Other-

• Basketball at the Lincoln Center
• Art with Mimi
• Went to the Batting cages (boys)
• horseback riding (Abigail)
• Caleb and Ethan are working on an ABC book of the 20th Century
• Adam is working on bird drawings to make stationery
• Abigail is working on a Word Tree after reading, "Rocket Writes a Story"
• Friday Freewrite
• Lego Quest
• Daily Checklists for all!