Our Old Friend Homer

This week Anna is finishing a six week literature unit based on Homer Price by Robert McCloskey. This unit is always a little sentimental to me because I remember reading the "diamond bracelet in the doughnut story" when I was in elementary school. And this will probably be the last time I do this unit. That makes me a little sad.

Some of the topics we covered were:

highway signs

the history of radio and television

simple machines

fictional story formats

The Iliad and The Odyssey

chemical elements and the periodic table

cartooning

telephones ~ history and how they work

history of the Red Cross

fiction writing

county fairs

birds and eggs

political parties

Rip Van Winkle

women's suffrage

I kept lousy records on this unit, so that's something I will need to work on with next one which will be about Betsy Ross. Homer Price was really a lot of fun and very low stress. We'll take a couple weeks off before we start Betsy, and I will let Anna pick a history and science topic to study on her own.