Bible
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones
This week our focus was on speaking goodness into each others lives. One of the activities involved 2 spoons, some honey and some garbage. Each girl got to choose between eating a spoonful of honey or garbage. Hm, I wonder what they picked:-)
Math/Calendar/Weather
This week I implemented a new way for Ava to get her math done on her own without as much prompting from me. I was inspired by another, far more organized, MFW mom - Mary Lou (thank you!). I put together math packets for Ava to grab each day out of her math folder. She takes one with her to the breakfast table and works on it while she eats breakfast. The packet includes:
Number of the Day 1/2 sheet
A "Today's Date Is..." page that I made
A worksheet from the Complete Book of Math
She is able to start this packet over breakfast and then while I am cleaning up the breakfast dishes she finishes it up and then goes about her morning chores. This works out really well because she wakes up fresh and ready to do school every morning, and I can say -"get your morning packet" and she knows exactly what to do without any further direction from me. I can be in the kitchen doing breakfast and dishes, close by to answer questions, yet she is also learning to work on her own. It's a win-win!
Science/Exploration Day
We spent a lot of time outside this week due to the unusually warm weather we were having. Although both girls enjoy science, I think Sophia especially loves this part of school.
Here are some picture of our adventures:
Here are some picture of our adventures:
We started an ant hill
planted our bean seeds
found a new fuzzy yellow friend
fuzzy yellow friend's new home
Interesting things about our caterpillar:
He loves apple tree leaves
He buried himself in the dirt a few days after this picture was taken.
Now there is a little bit of silk on the dirt around the edge of the glass.
Is he dead?
Hibernating for the winter?
We aren't sure. I am not sure what type of caterpillar he is either. If you have any thoughts, please let me know! We are in wait and see mode right now...
He loves apple tree leaves
He buried himself in the dirt a few days after this picture was taken.
Now there is a little bit of silk on the dirt around the edge of the glass.
Is he dead?
Hibernating for the winter?
We aren't sure. I am not sure what type of caterpillar he is either. If you have any thoughts, please let me know! We are in wait and see mode right now...
These are our beans after one week!!
We also learned about evaporation and will be keeping a close eye on our water level over the next week
On Exploration Day the TM said to draw some illustrations from p. 2 from Things Outdoors. This selection discussed rain, clouds and evaporation. We were having a lovely, partly cloudy day, so we went outside to draw.
We discussed evaporation and I asked the girls to copy the word and draw a picture of what evaporation looks like. This is Ava's picture:
And here is Sopha's picture.
Our next experiment was the Cloud/Rain Model
Patiently waiting for water to boil...
Ice cubes to make "cold air" clouds
drum roll please.....
Ta Da! We have tiny droplets of "rain" forming under our "cloud" Very cool!
Read Aloud
This week we read among other things:
Alice and Wonderland
Selections from Prayers and Poems
God's World News
Ava also finished her Animal Tales book
In other news...
Dad took the girls to Grandma and Grandpas to pick more apples and tomatoes!
Aren't they beautiful!
More soccer was played...
I lounged by the pool for a few end of summer sun beams...:-)
...while Ava was being bendy in Tumbling
The horses were BIG
and a little stinky:-)
but the girls had a blast! At the end Ava said she wants to take care of horses when she is older and Sophia made a new friend!
Another busy week done:-) See you next week!
Blessings,
Kim and the girls
