This week in Germany

We started our study in Germany this week. This will be our last country until summer is over. We have learned that Berlin is the capitol of Germany and they use the Deutscher Mark (DM) for their currency. We've learned that they speak German but their accents are different in different parts of the country.

Famous and infamous people from Germany that we've learned about so far are Handel (we listened to some of his famous music he composed and learned much about the different types of music he composed that was influenced by the places he lived) and Albert Eisenstein (famous scientist and mathematician and also a Jew (who fled from Hitler) and Hitler (who at first promised the people economy prosperity before he started his horrible assault on the Jews.)

Today we are going to be learning about Kings and Castles. Next week the plan is to listen to some Beethoven and learn about him as well as learning about Gutenberg.

Chad has been reading the girls- Heidi and they have thouroughly enjoyed it.

We will begin next studies in the next few weeks of A child's geography (this is more of an earth science study) with a friend of ours. We hope to finish this in 11 weeks.

We will pick back up galloping in the Fall with a little bit less intensity since we will be adding a formal science and I want to add History in consistently. I figure 2 days a week with science, 2 days a week with Galloping and 2 days a week History reading (reading History on one day with science and one day with Galloping.

We shall see...
My goal for this coming year is to work 4 days a week with the girls for 6 weeks at a time (one week off). That gives us 7 sessions with a total of 10 weeks off for the year. I will also count co-op days so that may increase our school days..because indeed co-ops are learning...smile!

Our co-ops next year will include American History (once a month) PE (once a month) and Music theory, Piano, ASL, Art, Science (Apologia Astronmy) (I think this will either be every week or every 2 weeks) and whatever we do with 4-H. Busy days ahead!!!