Tis the twenty and third of April!  Thus, we shall speaketh Shakespeare.  (“Talk like Shakespeare Day” in honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23, 1564).  We studied this author and his works a couple of years ago and have come back to learn with the resources we collected time and time again.  Click here for our Shakespeare online link collection  https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/04/23/happy-birthday-william-shakespeare/

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Happy Monday and Happy Homeschooling!

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Contact Juggler

HowStuffWorks: Entertainment: How Contact Juggling Works – Different
from traditional juggling, learn how contact juggling works.

WikiHow To Start Contact Juggling – Learn about ‘Shereplay’ and how it works. Tips offered as well.

Wikipedia: Contact Juggling – History, types, controversy and more. Site offers information, pictures and a short video example.

Juggling Tutorials for Beginners – Includes information about contact juggling.

After taking a break from our middle ages unit studies  this week to study spring weather,  we will be returning to them again next week.  We will be finishing up our artists lessons with Leonardo da Vinci.  The timing for this is perfect because his birthday is April 15.  That means that we can work some cake baking and decorating into our homeschooling day.

Below are the links we will be using for the da Vinci study

Biography, art gallery, games, quizzes, printables and more from here  http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art17.htm

Even though our library did not have Leonardo’s Horse I think we can still make good use of these lapbooks using what we found here   http://www.homeschoolshare.com/leonardos_horse.php

Artist Notebooking Page                                                                               https://notebookingfairy.com/artist-notebooking-page/

And da Vinci quotes from…