Apparently, I took no photos this week except my post-vaccine picture and a few at the park on Thursday…

What We Studied

I had multiple dentist appointments and my second vaccine appointment, so I decided on a 1/2 week. We cut out history and unit themes to focus on ELA, math, and science (Earth Day and climate change). It worked really well to balance all of our families needs.

Literature and Poetry

We finished Pippi Longstocking and watched the 1988 movie version for family movie night. Arthur actually really liked Pippi and I didn’t mind reading it at all! We also did a bit more of the poentry unit that we didn’t finish last week.

• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

• The Year Comes Round: Haiku Through the Seasons by Sid Farrar

• The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales by Dawn Casey and Anne Wilson

• The Earth is Painted Green: A Garden of Poems About Our Planet edited by Barbara Brenner

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Math

We wrapped up Unit 9 and 10 in Singapore Math 2B. We’re on track to finish the book in about two weeks.

Social Studies

Nothing this week

Science

We celebrated Earth Day but learning about the various ways we can help the Earth. Later in the week, we did a mini study on climate change along with a couple of good NOVA documentaries about the topic.

• Storybots: The Amazing Planet Earth (Arthur read)

• Celebrating Earth Day by MJ York

• The Earth Gives More by Sue Fliess

• One Earth by Eileen Spinelli

• Thank You Earth by April Pulley Sayre

• Does Earth Feel? by Marc Majewski

• My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan

• Our Earth Helping Out by Peggy Hock

• On Earth by G. Brian Karas

• Earth Hour by Nanette Heffernan

• Dear Earth… from Your Friends in Room 5 by Erin Dealey

• Our Gift-Filled Earth by Eun Hee Na

• Heal the Earth by Julian Lennon

• Climate Change by Peter Benoit

• The Magic School Bus and the Climate Change by Joanna Cole

Art

Nothing this week

Music

As we got behind last week, we finished listening to some of Alexandre Desplat’s movie scores. Arthur really enjoyed his Wes Anderson movie scores and the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2 score. The more serious movies, he did not enjoy but I did.

Unit Theme

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Misc. - Random picture books read

• Badger’s Perfect Garden by Marsha Diane Arnold

• Library Mouse: A Museum Adventure by Daniel Kirk

• Raindrops Roll by April Pulley Sayre

• L is for Library by Sonya Terry

• The Forever Garden by Laurel Snyder

• Little Blue Truck’s Springtime by Alice Schertle

• Hooray for Spring by Kazuo Iwamura

• Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

• The Song of Spring by Hendrik Jonas

• The Not So Quiet Library b Zachariah Ohora

• The Fox in the Library by Lorenz Pauli

• Little i by Michael Hall

• Crinkle, Crackle, Crack It’s Spring by Marion Dane Bauer

• Two Shy Pandas by Julia Jarman

• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

• Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña

• Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock

• Violet and Victor Write The Best-ever Bookworm Book by Alice Kuipers

Highs

• On Thursday, we had a lovely playdate with two other coop families. I’m so excited to have a group for the kids (and for me) this coming school year. I’m already planning possible themes and field trips.

• Our two NOVA episodes on energy and climate change were very interesting. I even learned some things!

Lows

• Two dentist appointments took me out of commission for all of Tuesday. And Arthur and Quentin’s attitudes suffered for it. They were little bears on Wednesday. We really do love our routine in this house.

Next Week

We’re back to a somewhat normal schedule next week, although we do have multiple outside activities planned. We are going to cover the last chapter of History Quest: Ancient Times about Arabia. We will be starting our new read aloud (Nim’s Island), new science unit (Oceans), and new music unit (American folk music). I can feel us winding down a bit as the end of the year comes closer.

Next up on the TBR pile: