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Hey — get your hands in the air — Queen is rockin’!

Tee hee, ok, so it was totally pun-y, but I think I got the mes­sage across!  Week 5 is now over.  We had an inter­est­ing week, to say the least.

Our week started with our Theo­cratic Study. We read about some of our fel­low believ­ers in the Amer­i­can Samoa. Wednes­day, we read an arti­cle about how the pur­suit of money will not make you happy, or closer to God.  Great dis­cus­sion after­ward, too!

While on our Nature Walk Mon­day, we went on a bug hunt.  It’s been rain­ing here for the past week straight, so I wasn’t sure we’d find much, if any­thing.  Well, we spot­ted ants and roly polies in our back yard.  There was a vol­un­teer grasshop­per that jumped up on my leg!

I then took the kids over to a plant that a friend had given me a few years ago. It’s a Rain tree plant (at least, that’s what he called it!). He rec­om­mended it be planted in the place where the down­spout drains, for the best water­ing pos­si­ble.  Well, while over there, I felt some­thing crawl­ing by my ear. I reached up to shoo it away, and … OUCH! It hurt!  I looked down on the ground, where I had swat­ted my assailant — it was a BEE!  He had stung me… and the stinger was still in my ear!  Now, I’d love to tell you that I quickly reached up, removed the stinger, and con­tin­ued on our Nature Walk.  BUT — since my super-hero cape was still at the clean­ers… I grabbed my ear, screamed, and my chil­dren turned into Doo­gie Howser, MDs!
#1 Son removed the stinger.  Can I just say, that a bee sting (my first in a bajil­lioni years, I may add), has a ten­dency to make you lose all sense of … sense!  I felt dizzy, like my face was swelling up, and like I was stabbed in the ear with an awl!
Thanks to the quick think­ing of my son, and WebMD, I did not die!  I’m not aller­gic to bees, but I did have a reac­tion!  My daugh­ters quickly called Daddy to inform him of the goings on.

Once every­thing calmed down, it was time to make our Nat­ural Jour­nal entries.  As you may have guessed, Mommy was the sub­ject!  Num­ber One Son drew the grasshop­per on my leg, and the girls drew the bee sting­ing me!

~~~ Mov­ing On!~~~

Art Study was Peter Claesz. There was NOT much love for this artist.  I think the skulls were just too much of a turn-off.
I think I’m ready for us to move on from Still-life artists.  We’ve been learn­ing about artists by style of paint­ing, and I think this works well for us.  We get expo­sure to many artists this way.  When we find an artist that we REALLY like, like the girls fell in love with Paul Cezanne, we can expand on that study for a week or so. Next week, I’d like to start Impres­sion­ist Painters — Mary Cas­satt will be our first Impressionist.

Com­poser Study — we’re fin­ish­ing up our study of Tchaikovsky.  We had trou­ble find­ing a lot of music by him.  Our library had slim pick­ings on this com­poser.  We read his bio in the book, Lives of the Musi­cians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neigh­bors Thought). This is a very good book, and a fun read.

ASL — we’re work­ing on Reli­gious signs now. While learn­ing alpha­bets, col­ors, num­bers and days of the week are good to know, I think if we can com­mu­ni­cate cer­tain scrip­tures through sign­ing, we’ll be doing good!

His­tory — the girls and I began read­ing The Bird Woman of The Lewis & Clark Expe­di­tion.  We’ve been tak­ing turns, and it makes the read­ing more enjoy­able for them.  They were excited to learn that the Bird Woman was Sacagewa.  Now, how they knew who she was before that, well — I think Car­men San Diego had some­thing to do with that. (scratch­ing head)

Sci­ence- we dis­cussed ponds. I really think it’d be neat to have our own pond. Noth­ing big and fancy — I’m think­ing some­thing the size of a kid­die pool.  We priced them, and took notes.  We’re decid­ing whether or not to have fish in the pond.  Next week, we’re going to shop for seeds for our fall garden!

I know I’m leav­ing some stuff off, but this has been, well — a week! One for the books, I tell ya!

Here’s the Weekly Wrap-up!

Hope your week went well.

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