Math and Granola and 300 Spartans

 It was a pretty good week. 

But I'm ready for the weekend.

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Starting school at 6:30am means math with granola...

A perfect combination.

 

 Fractions have been mastered (I hope),

and we've moved onto perimeter and circumference.

Since we use several different resources for math, we spiral a lot.

 

For extra practice, we've been using Cool Math -

a really great, free math site. Lu loves it.

We're almost done with our  

spelling and grammar workbooks. 

I still have very mixed feelings about these.

The spelling I think we'll keep using next year,

but the grammar is just kind of... blah.
Yet, to its credit, Lu does know his grammar.
Maybe I'll just use half of it or something.
So much repetition is definitely unnecessary.
Ugh... I think I'd already come to this conclusion.
Why don't I listen to myself?

 

We watched Last Stand of the 300

This is a History Channel documentary - not the movie. We watched it as part of our studies on the Persian Empire because, unlike the movie, it focuses more on the Persians than on the Greeks.

We did also watch the movie, 

but had to cover Lu's eyes and mute a few scenes.

We're working on doing one huge time-line for

Ancient Middle Eastern Civilizations,

before we start on Ancient Greece

(I can hardly wait!)

 

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 One of my favorite fruits - Pitaya 

(no idea what it's called in English) is in season.

 A lovely snack!

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There is no end to amazing insects around here. 

Today we found this crazy cactus-looking crawler.

 

Isn't he gorgeous!

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And Lu is reading the last chapters of 

Little House on the Prairie