Lesson 22: Ff Frog I Will Use My Tongue Wisely

What a week! The Lord has given us many opportunities to practice our words to remember. We are a family of talkers. We process our thoughts and feeling verbally. So you can imagine the trouble we all get into on daily because we do not choose to use our tongues wisely.

We have been plugging along in school consistently since September with only the normal breaks in schedule: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year. Praise the Lord everything has gone better than I ever expected. So much so, that we ended up way ahead of where I thought we would be at this time, which is great!

I am so thankful for the wiggle room in our schedule. The past 2 weeks we have really gotten off of our routine and therefore school has been taking longer than normal to get done. The reason?

I think it's several things.

1. It's been gray, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and cold since December with only a few days scattered throughout with some sun. We know we live in the Pacific Northwest and that this type of weather is to be expected up here; but we still get tired of it come March.

2. We worked hard the first 5 months of the year. Now we are all ready for a little break.

3. We are almost done and the girls and I are bored with the routine and are ready for something new!

Thankfully, we have the time now to relax and end the year in an easy-breezy fashion. Then we will take a break from formal school-type activities while I get reorganized for the next year. A good friend of mine has offered to help me organize our school room and gave me some great ideas (thank you Karen!) and now I am so excited to get started.

So these next few weeks we will be doing school, but we also will be focusing more on playtime, character building, and establishing good habits.

Blessings,
Kim

Butterfly and a new desk

Last week was Lesson 21- Bb Butterfly. God Can Make Me New!

As mentioned in my previous post it was a really fun lesson and a fun week. We had family visit, snow, a field trip to Bob's Red Mill, and lots of fun learning about Butterflies and how we are made new in Christ.

Here are the girls being silly at Bob's Red Mill

Our tour guide showed them how wheat is threshed and winnowed.

Today we wrapped up butterfly week with a discussion about how God can make us new.

We will capture a caterpillar when Spring is here and hopefully get to watch one transform into a butterfly. But for now, our mummy cocoons, and drawings of the butterfly life cycle will have to do. The girls seemed to really enjoy this unit.

Sophia's Life Cycle diagram

Ava's Life Cycle diagram

Finally, Ava got a new 1st grader desk today. She is so happy and can now write more comfortably.

She likes having her own space and a place to keep her books and school supplies (they go inside the desk.)

Today we started our 22nd lesson: Ff Frog. More on that next week:-)

Blessings!
Kim