
This week in school we have spent more time outside. Here in the Sunshine state it has been very nice outside. It is amazing what fresh air has done for our spirits.
Halea:
~Halea and I started reading All the Women of the Bible together. You can find the notebook pages she is using (will be added more,) and read more about this
here.~She worked again in Life of Fred Fractions. She is exited as she is nearing the end of this book. It is very satisfying to her this year, as this curriculum has turned her hatred of math around! Read about our review for
Life of Fred Fractions...~A Reason for Spelling E
~Writing Center: Text Response 1 Sam. 25: 2-44
~Rod & Staff Reader 6: Buried in the Snow, To Start a Fire, Jamestown Preacher
~Mad Libs
~A young women after God's own heart: faith heroes, brothers and sisters,
~Sketch Tue. - Draw a famous landmark
~Design cover for All the Women of the Bible notebook
~Continue reading Stepping Heavenward with mama
~Made Peanut Butter Cookies
Jacob:
~Mighty Warrior Devotional Bible: First Forgiveness, Enemy Fire, In the Long Run
~Abeka Arithmetic 2
~Dry Erase math & subtraction
~Rod and Staff English 2
~A Reason for Spelling B
~Copywork
~Nature Journaling
~Explode the Code 5 1/2
~(Individual Reading) The Mystery of the Silent Nightingale
~Made a modified
pomander and discuss reason for use and the time period
~Mad Libs
~Draw a famous landmark
~The Glad Scientist: Salt of the Earth
Noah:
~Kites for the Letter K including Trapezoid shapes and Bible Reading
~Sorting and Patterning Bears (Three Bear family and Activity book)
&
LEGO patterns~Left to Right
~Read 26 Letters and 99 Cents with mama
~What Belongs together
~More and Fewer
~Same number of objects
~Color by Spot and numbers
~nature journal
~notebook Flo the Lyin Fly after reading with mama
~The Big Book of Questions and Answers: Who are you? Why am I here?
Together:
~We took a nice nature walk. Read about that post
here. From that we made
Nature Autumn Wreaths.
~We focused on
Habitats, joining in with
Nature Explorers. This is our first week joining them :D
~Notebooking woodland animals like the Chipmunk...
~We focused on
Noah and the Big Flood, as did Carissa over at 1+1+1=1, for
Raising Rock Stars ;D
~Halea and Jacob also joined in with
Barb and Sketch Tue. I am very exited they both wanted to do this :D Their first completed assignment was to draw a wallet or something you put in it.
~We made
Acorn People from stuff around the house and yard.
~We listened and notebooked the first part of "Path of Praise: The History of Thanksgiving" from the Homeschool Radio Shows "
Great Old Time Holiday Stories for the Family" cd. This has been such a wonderful blessing for us, as we all gather around the stereo and spend some quality time together.
~Started our Pilgrims Study, read more and find a few notebooking pages we are using
here.
~Read out loud together "
The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
~Read
Sarah Morton's Day, and continued Pilgrim Study. Find free printables
here, for this book.
~Read "The Great Ship that saved eight people",
from Hulbut's Story of the Bible (will continue with this book each day at breakfast :D) This is a great book, (an oldie, but a goodie), with questions in the back for each story...
~We made Contact window clings, and a
Thanksgiving Turkey Countdown~And we recieved our first letters from a Wampanog boy and Pilgrim girl, via email... read more
here :D
Please, join in so myself as well as others can see what you have been up to in your Homes-cool!
