We had a great week last week. Jewel is getting so much more confident with math, and is plugging along with her addition facts. We have finally arrived at more concrete history studies in the curriculum (as opposed to social studies of people groups and housing). Jewel is fascinated with early history. She is asking lots of questions and is very engaged with the study which is great for her mommy/teacher. Her Bible memory work this week is John 3:16. Here, again, she is asking lots of questions about the Bible stories we read and the "Leading Little Ones to God" book. It is wonderful to see her work at putting it all together in her head.
Flower added two more letters (k and r) to the ones she has learned to write. She is so proud of herself when she learns something new. She was a little distracted this week during story time. I'm thinking she needs a short break.
Saturday we went to a stage production of "Seussical" a musical based on Dr. Seuss characters. It was really good. Flower was especially mesmerized. Then Sunday both girls were cast as angels for the upcoming church production and began learning how to sing "Away in a Manger." They are very cute, even if they are totally cast against character!
This week we are slowing down and just doing some Thanksgiving activities and some activities to complete our latest book Mr. Popper's Penguins. We'll go back to a light schedule next week, then spend the rest of December concentrating on Advent activities. They are ready for a lighter schedule for a little while.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Got to Make the Doughnuts
We recently completed Homer Price as our lunch time reader. One of the favorite Homer stories is when the doughnut making machine goes haywire. In honor of finishing the book, we made doughnuts. The girls helped cut them out, I fried them and then I glazed half of them. The other half, we covered with chocolate sauce and the girls decorated with sprinkles! What a fun way to end a book!
Carnation Experiment
I finally uploaded the pictures of our carnations that we changed the color.
Here they are on day 1:
Here they are on day 10. Jewel's is red, Flower's is blue and mine is green. Green doesn't work very well.
Here they are on day 1:
Here they are on day 10. Jewel's is red, Flower's is blue and mine is green. Green doesn't work very well.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Wrap Up--Week of November 2-8
Wow, I'm actually getting a wrap up done within a couple days of the completed week. What a concept!
We had a great week this week. It started on Sunday, when our family presented about our recent mission trip to Romania. (You can read more here, there are five posts in total) German and I led the service, Jewel and Flower sang with the praise band and then we hosted a typical Romanian meal afterwards. We had over eighty people stay for the meal and it was amazing. It was great to see the girls talking about the trip, remembering different aspects and placing things into context for others.
Monday began week six of our Sonlight year. We are nearing the more "meaty" part of the history and social studies in the curriculum. I'm so ready to get to ancient civilaztions! I would move quicker through what I consider tedious, but Jewel loves Usborne books and doesn't want to rush. Child led, MiPa, child led!
Monday night we went to visit friends who had their first baby on Friday evening. Flower, especially, was enthralled by the tiny hands and feet. He slept the whole time we were their, but I was able to enjoy the cuddles.
Reading is going well. She really loves that she is able to read the Bible to me. So cool! Flower is half-way through her first "Get Ready for the Code" book and is doing great. She has learned to write most of her letters and now we are beginning to work on more consistency.
Math is going so much smoother now that we have begun the Math*U*See curriculum. Jewel is finally getting to grips with basics such as place value and she now says that she loves math. We haven't heard that in a long time!
We finished reading Homer Price last night. The girls loved it. We will make doughnuts sometime next week to complete the experience. In Science this week in addition to continuing our study of flowers we completed a few water experiments that we had not been able to do before. We created a syphon to make water flow upwards. The girls were convinced that I would not be able to do it, but I did. Yay me! We are also changing the color of white carnations. Jewel's carnations in red food color are a beautiful pink color. Flower's in blue food color are beginning to tinge blue. Mine in green food color are still white. ;-( Oh well! Next week we will do similar experiments with celery to see how the water is taken up the stalk.
It should be a quiet weekend around here. Tomorrow the girls will present their current memory verse to someone at church. They have spent the last six weeks learning all of Psalm One. There is a young man at church that they love to tell their verses to, and he is so encouraging of them! Then we have our house group Bible Study. One of the families has two year old twins so the the girls love that.
We had a great week this week. It started on Sunday, when our family presented about our recent mission trip to Romania. (You can read more here, there are five posts in total) German and I led the service, Jewel and Flower sang with the praise band and then we hosted a typical Romanian meal afterwards. We had over eighty people stay for the meal and it was amazing. It was great to see the girls talking about the trip, remembering different aspects and placing things into context for others.
Monday began week six of our Sonlight year. We are nearing the more "meaty" part of the history and social studies in the curriculum. I'm so ready to get to ancient civilaztions! I would move quicker through what I consider tedious, but Jewel loves Usborne books and doesn't want to rush. Child led, MiPa, child led!
Monday night we went to visit friends who had their first baby on Friday evening. Flower, especially, was enthralled by the tiny hands and feet. He slept the whole time we were their, but I was able to enjoy the cuddles.
Reading is going well. She really loves that she is able to read the Bible to me. So cool! Flower is half-way through her first "Get Ready for the Code" book and is doing great. She has learned to write most of her letters and now we are beginning to work on more consistency.
Math is going so much smoother now that we have begun the Math*U*See curriculum. Jewel is finally getting to grips with basics such as place value and she now says that she loves math. We haven't heard that in a long time!
We finished reading Homer Price last night. The girls loved it. We will make doughnuts sometime next week to complete the experience. In Science this week in addition to continuing our study of flowers we completed a few water experiments that we had not been able to do before. We created a syphon to make water flow upwards. The girls were convinced that I would not be able to do it, but I did. Yay me! We are also changing the color of white carnations. Jewel's carnations in red food color are a beautiful pink color. Flower's in blue food color are beginning to tinge blue. Mine in green food color are still white. ;-( Oh well! Next week we will do similar experiments with celery to see how the water is taken up the stalk.
It should be a quiet weekend around here. Tomorrow the girls will present their current memory verse to someone at church. They have spent the last six weeks learning all of Psalm One. There is a young man at church that they love to tell their verses to, and he is so encouraging of them! Then we have our house group Bible Study. One of the families has two year old twins so the the girls love that.
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