This picture of Evelyn holding the hail made it on the Atlanta news. She thought that was awesome.
My sister sent me some ultrasound pictures. It was great to catch a glimpse of my niece/nephew!! I can't wait to see my sister's baby bump if we make it back up for Thanksgiving.
I have been enjoying teaching my third grade AWANA class about sin and salvation. I love hearing them recite their verses to me each week. This week we did an experiment about sin and how God cleanses it from our life when we accept Him into our lives. I put some iodine in a jar. I added a penny to show that we can't buy salvation. I added a Bible verse card so show that going to church won't save us. Then I added a spoon to show that doing good works like helping your mom with the dishes won't take the sin away. The only way to be cleansed from our sin is through God. I used bleach to represent God. Immediately once I added the bleach to the jar, the water cleared up. no sign of sin anywhere. They really enjoyed that visual.
Our kids must have been super focused during school this week, because we got done earlier than normal most days, which fine by me because the weather was so great. In our group studies, we're still reading Charlotte's Web. After the skewer/ string web-making debacle, we decided to draw our webs this time. The kids each chose a word to write in them just like Charlotte did in the book. Jacob and Evelyn got to paint their own version of one of VanGogh's famous paintings.
The original is in the middle. Jacob wanted me to notify everyone that he did his very best, but he is not an artist. I just think he doesn't have the patience for painting, and that's ok.
Jacob started working on ratios and percentages in math this week. he seems to be doing well with them. He has started his research for his Language Arts research report. He chose the topic: Operation Desert Storm. We ordered a couple books for him to read since our local library is closed all month for remodeling. I think learning about the Middle East in history a while back may have helped him become interested in the Persian Gulf War. We just finished up our unit on Asia today. Jacob scored a 96% on his test!! This past week we read about China and the far east. He is now able to identify those countries on a map along with their capitals. We're finished up our study of rocks, minerals, and fossils in science and reviewing for a test this coming Monday. We read about different accounts of dinosaurs in the Bible. Adam, Noah, and Job were just a few of the men who saw dinosaurs. We also learned that the Bible mentions dragons. I always thought they were a mythical creature that never existed. I learned something new too!
Evelyn just finished up a science unit on oceans, and is starting a new one on ponds. Today we compared oceans and ponds. I never knew there was such a thing as pondweed. It's like seaweed, but it grows in freshwater. We have been reading about William Penn in history, and today we learned the locations of eleven of the United States. In Language Arts we have been studying possessives, and today we introduced the topic of plurals and possessives. She also did a little creative writing as well. She has been continuing to work on her long division in math, as well as memorize the six multiplication family.
Aiden has been breezing right through his kindergarten lessons. I am thinking of adding a few more things just to bulk up the curriculum and challenge him more. He's been working on counting to 100, learning his sight words (So and me were this week's words.) I was very proud of him for memorizing this week's Bible verse. Here's a few of the other things he worked on this week:
Mazes- this kid LOVES mazes. These ones are part of his curriculum, but I think they are too easy since he did more challenging ones last year.
He completed his final shape in his shape book.
Working on simple picture addition
Number puzzle
practiced writing his sight words
Telling time worksheet
cutting activity
He wanted me to take a picture of the trains he cut out.
Counting money worksheet
This week was Letter H week in preschool. Miss Claire had lots of fun doing all her hippo activities. She also memorized her Bible verse, along with her AWANA verse. I love being able to instill the Word of God in their hearts.
Hippo lacing
Hippo size sort
Letter matching
Hippo building- she had to copy the pattern
Bambino Luk puzzle- Aiden had these in his preschool curriculum last year and Claire always liked watching him do those, so I pulled them out for her. She spends lots of time doing different ones. It has a self check on the back (which is pictured). If all dots match, then the puzzle is correct.
Do-a-dot
Things that start with H: Hat and horse
Color match
H Poke page
Horse sticker activity (had these left from her horse birthday party last year, and thought they would work for letter H week)
H alpha pattern blocks
H cutting practice
Hippo cut and paste
Hippo graphing
magnet page
Of course, we ended today with a letter H party. We ate Homemade potato soup and Hot cocoa. I had to get creative and make do with what we had, thus the homemade acting as our H. The kids didn't care. After dinner they watched Handy Manny.
I tried a new recipe for potato soup and of course, put my own spin on it. Turned out pretty good.
I'm so thankful for the opportunity I have to be able to bring up our children in the ways of the Lord. It's such a blessing to be able to give them a good, godly education, while having them home with us. I don't take it for granted at all!!
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