The past couple of days, we've been using Five in A Row's unit study, "Grass Sandals." It's about the travels of a 17th Century Japanese Poet who walks across Japan! Tommie and I both needed a a break from American History. And, this is one of the few books we have left to cover with Five in a Row. Like all of their units, this one is refreshing and gives you an exciting peek into a different world.

One of our lessons is learning about the Milky Way! Which led to learning about The Black Hole, which led to our spiral galaxy....which led to... okay, you get the idea of how much fun unit studies can be! I pulled out Apologia's Astronomy and we just rolled with it.... Instead of notebooking, I'm having Tommie create a big poster of what he understands.

I've never taught Haiku in our homeschool. But, this week...we're diving into it. I'm surprised that Tommie actually enjoys it... I thought for sure, he'd groan and moan and try to weasel out of it. I'm having him write a poem each day and I hope to make it into a little keepsake poetry book at the end of this week.

We'll see....