MFW 1850 to Modern Times and First Grade week 11

Its been an amazing year so far! We have enjoyed learning about President Lincoln, Meiji Restoration and the Civil War! Im really proud of us for keeping up with our school work and staying on schedule! Lily learned the sounds for "oo" and started Math Mammoth level 1. Jadon memorized the poem "the Wise Old Owl" and presented it to our co-op. Logan scored well all week in Math. Benjamin aced his spelling test. Natalie completed all her work on time. We only had three days of school this week!

This week has been a bit out of the ordinary! We had Columbus Day off with Dad and did some major cleaning in the kids rooms. Then we had our Co-op Class which was fun! In our class a Dad came in and taught about clay. How the Master forms the clay and has to put pressure on it to make its shape, he squeeze both his had together to center the clay on the wheel. He lays his had on top of the clay to keep it flat and formed and giving it a good foundation for the work he will do to make it usable to him. Then he has to press inside the heart of the clay to hollow out any bad character traits to make the clay even more usable He pulls, and pushes, and cleans, and trims until he doesn't feel the clay can be shaped any more. If the clay is hardened or cracked it is no longer usable and needs to be moistened again to be refashioned again. Sometimes he has to destroy the clay into a fine dust and let it soak up the water again before its usable. It was a very powerful message.