Notes:

highlights of our week from memory.

read alouds this week...not much :(

chapters in Grandma's Attic

Burgess Bird Book

Treasury of 20th century favorites (blessed with this $40 book for .45 cents!!! at goodwill...looks brand new! - this is listed on the My Father's World Curriculum and I didn't have to pay s/h!! )

Toys played with:  GEAR GEARS GEARS!    electronic oceans

                             VTECH learning laptop    LeapPads

DS8  books read to himself

1.  Inspector Hopper  level 2 I can read

2.  Cooking with the Cat level 1

3.  Daniel's Duck  level 3

4.  Shark Attack  level 3

DS7  books read to himself  

1.  Cooking with the Cat

2.  The Napping House,(hardback Goodwill find!)

 3.  Daniel's Duck

4.  Biscuit I can read

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Friday....

BIBLE -  Veritas Press Gospel flashcards...put 1-20 on the wall and listened to the music tape and discussed Gospel facts.

HANDICRAFTS - boys worked on woodcarving and soapcarving.

OUTDOORS PLAY - listened for birdcalls and bikerides. Dug up earthworms.

DOVER coloring books and listened to COMMON BIRD SONGS tape

GIRLS READ ALOUD  BABAR BOOKS and Precious Moments Love to Learn.

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Thursday...

SCIENCE  Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day book arrived for our Bird Unit!!  sat down and scanned through the birds and experiments.

OUTDOORS/garden

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Wednesday...

all day outdoors , gardening, sifting dirt, looking for bugs, listen for birds, birdfeeders, etc...caught in an afternoon wind storm.

Nature drive spotted a burrowing owl in the wheatfields around 8 pm...he was in a prairie dog hole

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Tuesday...

errands al day

Veritas Press bible songs

Gardening

Woodcarving with new knives.

Phonics practice on a vtech toy.

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Monday....

FIAR   Daniels Duck  volume 3 - read and looked at woodcarving box from boys Great Uncle. 

Location:  Tennessee mountains

What a treasure full of projects and supplies!  We read through his letter and learned basic terms for working with wood. Lots of hands on practice.

DS7 read aloud to Grandma 1/2 of Daniels Duck

DS8  3 R's

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Posted by SunnyFlowers

Hi! You guys had a great week! I love all the nature learning, and the photos. Neat that you saw an owl. Now you'll have to pull out Owl Moon and dissect some owl pellets. eeewww...:-)

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