We started the week with our annual fall field trip to Cahokia Mounds…it was a beautiful, but fairly muddy, day!

This week Ladybug learned to identify the weak analogy and post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies in logic. She read about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as well as Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and U.S. Steel and John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company in her study of US culture. She continued her 30-day photography challenge. In psychology she focused on memory. She read more of the second book of A Tale of Two Cities. We read about Popes Leo I and Gregory I in religion.

Chickadee figured profits and royalties and drew different types of graphs in pre-algebra. We read about the British colonization of India in history. She started a chapter on the fossil record in science, learning about molds and casts as well as the process of petrifaction. In writing she worked on writing about the function of a Venus Flytrap by answering questions about it. We started reading The Trojan War. We’re almost done with The Wizard of Oz, so we made a pair of special recipes from The Wizard of Oz: The Official Cookbook: “Up High Picnic Pie” and “There’s No Place Like Home(made) Apple Pie.” I’m hoping to make at least one more recipe from that cookbook before our Thanksgiving break.

We’re planning another outdoor field trip next week…hopefully the weather cooperates!