It was Thanksgiving week and we did get some schoolwork done . . . if the kids had gone to Colville public schools they would have gotten the whole week off, with snow days at the beginning of the week and Holiday days at the end.  But alas, Mom makes them do schoolwork even when it snows and even though no school bus would ever have ventured up our road.  (Though, I admit, we did have lighter-than-average schoolwork expectations.  Everyone needs a Holiday!)  Here's a bit of the fun and learning and eating that went on this week:

Smiley practiced letters and numbers; he reads them, he writes them, he finds numbers in fun counting books, and plays games with letter cards.

Caleb is learning to measure inches in math.  He also practices subtraction and addition facts he has already learned.

We are reading a number of great books about the life and culture during America's first Thanksgiving.  The books, by Kate Waters, have photograph illustrations of real people in authentic time-period costumes. 

Caleb also worked on his handwriting and Language Arts words lists.  Smiley learned the letter Q; he made a Q into a quail on his Q page and we read fairy tales about Queens.

The kids also made a whole bunch of beautiful candle lanterns (the same kind that Smiley made last week) to decorate our long Thanksgiving table, they helped prepare the holiday meal, making soup, cornbread, and roasting the turkey, Caleb discovered that all his math skills have enabled him to play Yahtzee and we played several rounds, they read lots and lots, watched a foot of snow melt away in the rain, practiced spelling while playing Bookworm, read about weather and water systems, and lots more!