If you’ve a date in Constantinople, she’ll be waiting in Istanbul

Monday is the last day of this session of our homeschool co-op. It seems like it went really quickly this time. Poppy’s been taking a class on Weaving and one about Fairies, and Pete’s taking Puppets and my class, Superheroes 101.

The Superheroes class has gone OK, but the disparity of abilities and attention spans when you’re dealing with the 3- to 5-year-old age group is always a little challenging.

History

Yep, this week we read about the Ottoman Turks conquering Constantinople. Pete’s been singing the song all week. We didn’t do any crafts or activities this week, but I did find a rather cool Ted Ed presentation on “The City Walls of Constantinople” that we watched a time or two.

Reading

We started “Return to Gone-Away” as our family chapter book.

Poppy discovered that we could access ebooks from the library on the Kindle! She’s been reading “Magic Tree House #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn” on it.

I checked out a very-incomplete copy of the first level of Hooked on Phonics to try out with Pete. Most of the cards and all of the little books are missing, so he’s just been working his way through the main book. He’s doing really well with it, though; I think it’s building his confidence on the reading front.

And just so you know: Registration for next year’s Pizza Hut BookIt program is open.

Science

I panicked a little bit yesterday when I read the instructions for the kids’ Ladybug Land kit. They said to take the larvae out immediately, and I’d left the poor things in their envelope for days. They were pretty still when we put them in their biodome. They perked up pretty quickly, though, and now there are about 20 very creepy ladybug larvae creepin’ around in there.