This week...

Well, we made it another week! Yippee for us! We are getting so excited about fall coming that it's hard to focus on school. The kids have started scoping out costumes for Halloween trick-or -treating, and I think they have all decided their costumes. We will be taking a week off in October just to enjoy the weather and season change. As for school, we are studying Mercury this week in our study of the solar system. We did an experiment with flour and rocks (throwing the rocks into the bowl of flour) to see how craters are formed on Mercury. It was a huge mess! We also made our own flour mixture models of Mercury which the kids really enjoyed. This weekend we plan on making a small model of the Nile River which we are now studying in history. Hopefully, I'll get the pics posted for everyone to see.