She's one tough girl! ;-) Skylar has earned her advanced orange belt in her Kenpo Karate class! She loves karate and we are so proud of her dedication, hard work and enthusiasum. Congratulations, Sky!.JPG)
The girls also colored a close up map of Morocco (on the right, below), and glued that along with the country's flag and discription to a page for their notebooks.
And using this book below....
they drew a picture of an animal that lives in Africa. The drawings are simplistic and somewhat "cartoonish", but still fun and turned out well.
The craft for Morocco was these Khamsas. They had fun making these. The girls have fun making anything "artsy".
(Skylar's is above and Alexa's below)
And of course we read many, many stories about Africa......fiction and nonfiction. A couple of the books we used are pictured below..JPG)
The girls really enjoy learning about people of other countries and how they live, especially the children. The stories and the hands on activities are their favorite parts. Social studies and geography have become one of their favorite subjects. Mine, too. :-)
She did an awsome job! And then Skylar asked Alexa if she could add one more thing. When Alexa said yes, Skylar added the light blue, cut glass rosary. Perfect!
The craft for this teatime was making little vases to put flowers in for the Blessed Mother. I used Danimals yogurt containers because of their size and shape.....perfect for holding little child-sized bouquets of flowers!
The girls painted them before teatime, so they could be dry by the end.
(Alexa's is on the right, Skylar's on the left)
Then we began our Teatime with the prayer found here. It was time to eat the goodies that Taylor had prepared earlier in the day.
We found Fatima on our world map earlier in the morning. Then they went out to pick flowers for Mary. Their bouquets turned out so nice, don't you think?
TTFN
~Tina
And it was just a few minutes later that Alexa presented me with a "flower fairy" that she made out of real flowers. The dandelion is the head, and the pink petals are the dress. So creative!
I needed a delicate candleholder, but couldn't find what I was looking for it my "stash". So I made one, very simply. I took an inexpensive, plain glass candle holder, and wrapped it in sheer, light blue ribbon, then tied it. Then, in my Liturgical Year Boxes I found some dainty ribbon craft flowers. I just wired those around the knot in the ribbon, placed a tealight inside and that's it. So simple, but it turned out pretty nice, I think.
At some point I plan to do a Teatime in honor of the Blessed Mother, too. It might even be tomorrow, depending on how things go. ;-) 
Skylar's co-op group learned about the Iditarod for the second half of the school year. I must say, I learned from her because I was pretty clueless about this race. They learned about the dogs, the mushers, the town of Iditarod and Alaska.
Then they followed the race as it unfolded. They even had a "musher of choice" to follow and cheer for. Her name is Melissa Owens and she was home schooled.
And at the very last co-op meeting, each child did a presentation on something they learned. Skylar did hers on the dogs. She was nervous, but did well.
This is a hole of some sort of burrowing creature that is wreaking havoc on our lawn (above), and this is one of those burrowing paths, though it's hard to see in the photo (below). It's path runs from near the bottom left corner up to near the upper right corner.
But when I see them like this...
Everyone loves the cake walk. Even though we usually don't win any cakes. Skylar did once, a few years ago. G-ma took Evan around for his first time on the cake walk.
He was out, exploring the deck in no time.
Evan didn't want to actually touch him, but he did wave "hi".
Mr. Turtle even made a friend. A rather large, plastic friend. ;-)
Soon it was time for Taylor to set him free again.
