Our last month of school

Since I haven't posted much, I decided to put our last month of school into one post.  Sorry if it's long.

We read Angelo for co-op the first part of May.  The story takes place in Italy.  Angelo is a stucco worker so we made concrete stepping stones using shells and glass rocks.  Since Angelo took place in Italy, we studied Ancient Rome - a unit I wrote for the Blast (at Homeschool Share.)  (Those of you on HSS, here is a preview of what's to come.  I hope this is legal .)  Some of the things in the boys' books came from Evan-Moor's History Pockets - Ancient Civilizations.

Then, a couple of weeks later, we read Nico's Octopus for co-op which took place in Greece.  The focus was the octopus (which is why we went to the zoo, except there weren't octopus there.)  So, I wrote a unit on Ancient Greece for HSS.  Again, here is a preview.

(Ancient Rome was Nicolas's book and Greece was Alex's.  They are both pretty much the same except the information put inside the books.  This was our first lapbook that we put into a Bare Book - a blank spiral bound book , instead of a file folder.)

Mom and boys learned much.  This summer we are going to work on an Ancient Egypt unit (also one I wrote for the Blast at HSS.)  Then we will visit the Indy Children's Museum to see the King Tut exhibit.  We'll just work at our leisure (rainy days, etc.)