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Creation study - Day 6! This coming week is going to be our last week of our creation unit. I am going to do a few days on animals and then a few days on "man" and the human body. Here are some things we are planning to do!

Good Books

*Box Turtle at Long Pond

*ABC Book of God's Creatures by Mary Landis (a Rod and Staff book)

*A Water Snake's Year

*Spoonbill Swamp

*How Was I Born?

*My Five Senses

*Your Skin and Mine

*The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body

*The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses

Fun Activities & Crafts

*If you sign up for www.liveandlearnpress.com they have some free printable booklets/lapbooks for you to use. There is one called "All About Me" that I plan to do with the girls this week. They will each work on the pages and then will have a finished book all about themselves! There is a place for a timeline of their life, tell about their family members, their birthday, address, phone number, special things they can do, hair color, etc. I think they will enjoy this a lot!

*We are going to review our animal classification chart and ALLLLL the animals/creatures we have been learning about thus far.

*We will make a chart in our creation journal of different types of animals. I want the girls to try and draw one of each. (birds, fish, insects, mammals, spiders, etc.)

*We are going to read Psalm 139 together and talk about how God knew us even before we were born...how He "worked" on us while we were in our mommy's tummies. I'm going to pull out old picture albums of each child as they were born, as well as the pictures we have of me all big and pregnant. I love looking at pictures with the kids and I think this will be a neat thing to do with them!

*We will draw self-portraits in our creation journal. We will probably also draw a picture of our family.

*www.learningpage.com has a Senses section. If you sign in (it's free membership) click on "basic sheets" and then senses is one of the topics across the top. We will be doing several of these to learn about the 5 senses we have.

*enchanted learning also has several printables, including a book, that the girls will make about their senses.

*Look at all these wonderful ideas for a 5 senses unit!

http://www.pre-kpages.com/5senses.html

*I will take turns blindfolding the girls to show them what it is like to be blind. We will also review some of the sign language we have learned and show how deaf people communicate with others in this way.

*Here is a cute craft that we may do on the day we look at the 5 senses.  Here is a description:

As a culmination to your five senses unit, have the children make self portraits; then glue on wiggle eyes, cotton ball dipped in perfume (nose), jingle bells (ears), sand paper (hands) and licorice (mouth). Use this caption:
"_____________ has Five Senses".

And if you scroll way down on this page you can see a picture of it:

http://www.littlegiraffes.com/fivesenses.html

DAY 7

My girls have already asked what we are going to draw on our mural for Day 7. The only thing I can think of is to draw someone sleeping?? Any other ideas out there? We will write the word "rest" as we have been writing 1 word descriptions of the other things God created on the other days.

For a field trip, I'm hoping to get in a day FULL of naps...especially for mommy!

And for fun activities and books to read, we will continue napping.

Yes, a mother can dream, can't she?

I do hope you all have enjoyed looking through the pictures and ideas of our creation unit study. What an awesome God we serve!