The King of Bling - Charles II

We are having way too much fun studying the 17th century.   America being colonized at a rapid fire pace, English monarchs beheaded, Puritan rule, and now Charles II - the King of Bling has come to power in the middle of the 1600's.

Here's a little ditty we found that is being hummed all around the house this week:

Gotta love the rapping King!

On a more serious note, we are in Week 7 of MFW.

:: My students enjoyed the age of exploration  - we played a game called Explorers by Lakeshore to drive home the names and places.

:: I had to find a way to help us all with memorization, so I turned to APPS for the Ipad. I love technology when I can find a great tool for school. It's called FighterVerse and it allows me to enter the verses that we need to study and then the App produces quizzes where words are left out and the kids have to come up with the correct answer.  We have used it every day and found it to be essential to our memorization of the book of James.

::We watched the movie "Desperate Crossing" about the Mayflower crossing the Atlantic to settle at Plymouth.

:: We made wigwams and LEGO replicas of Jamestown and Salem Village.

Homeschool ROCKS!