We ended our year with a Mother Daughter Tea. We recognized the girls with sashes and the pins they had earned during the year. (Grandmothers, Aunts and sisters were also invited to attend.)

This was our final week of clubs meeting for this semester.

We recognized each boy for their achievements this semester.

We had 5 boys that received this award for outstanding achievement.

We then concluded with a class party, popcorn drinks and a movie.

Last week we went over the books of the Bible again

and then watched Land of the Lost in class.

We thought it would be a fun break.

Last week we observed our life cycle of the butterfly.

They were in the Pupa stage.

We also learned taht the pupa is called a Chrysalis.

Cocoons are made by moths not butterflies.

Last week we assembled Dinosaur bones. We had 2 teams. Each worked on putting one dinosaur together. Then we painted the bones. I am hoping to post pictures soon.

This week we talked about Herbivores, Omnivores and Carnivores. We talked about many different kinds of dinosaurs. Why discussed reasons for their extinction. Then the boys each drew a dinosaur of their choice.

After Spring Break we began our Butterfly unit.

The first week we talked about The parts of a butterfly. The head, thorax and abdomen.

We learned that they are insects and have 6 legs.

We learned the 4 stages in the life cycle. Egg-Larva-Pupa-Adult.

 This week we learned that butterflies have scales on their wings and if you pick them up by their wings you can damage them. We also learned that they have 4 wings. The 2 on each side move together.

We learned about 2 different types of butterflies.The Blue Swallowtail and the Painted Lady.

These larva here will become Painted Lady butterflies.

 From our observation this week we learned that the 5 larva are:

Shedding their exoskeletens, growing and they have webs.

This week we began a new unit on Dinosaurs.

We talked about them being created on Day 6 of Creation Week.

When God said he created the beasts of the field.

We discussed fossils, what palentologists do.

So for an Ice Breaker I gave the boys 2 puzzles mixed together.

They had to all (12) work together to put them together.

I explained that this is similar to what Palentologists have to do. In fact when they first discovered Dinosaur bones, they had never seen them before and did not know how they should fit together.

In the same way these boys had never seen these puzzles before, they had to figure out which piece went to which puzzle. They were able to work together well and within 20 minutes had them complete.

We made these fun fridge magnets today.

Then we did a fun team building exercise. I gave the girls 2 puzzles that were mixed together. I gave half the peices to each table. They had to sort them out and put them together. It was very interesting because they had never seen the puzzles before and they had no idea what they should look like.

Swimming Creatures and Birds of the air. 

We discussed the Octopus because it is such a remarkable creature. 8 arms and 3 hearts.

It pumps blue blood through the heart, has a highly intellegent brain in that it can open a jar underwater and it has a beak which helps it to penetrate crab shells.

So I thought it would be fun to make our own creatures, we could decide after looking at them

if they were going to be sea or air creatures.

We dropped paint onto the paper and let each boy fold it over and smooth out the paint.

Here are some of the pictures. We let each boy decide if they wanted theirs to be a sea or air creature.

Here is the sock critters we made. Now with grass seed hair!

This is Tegan's. He had a full head of hair in a very short time. 

Today in class we discussed God's creating the Sun, Moon and Stars on day 4.  One thing that we pointed out was that in the theory of Evolution they believe that the sun existed before the earth. But God says the earth was created first, in fact dry land and plants even came forth before the creation of the sun, moon and stars. We discussed the planets, what the sun does for us, and that God gave us them for signs and seasons.

This week I taught the girls how to decorate a normal hair tie. We also discussed that you could use ribbon or even material strips. For this class I decided we would use yarn, thinking it would be the easiest. I must admit that some of the younger girls were challeneged in tying the knots. Overall I was very happy with how they did and they were able to leave with something they can now wear and show off to their friends and family. Plus they have learned a skill in creativity.

She chose Spring colors. As you can see it is not finished all around, but It can be hid under her hair. She was one of those challenged in tying the knots.

This week we drew day 2 in our notebooks. We discussed the sky and how

God divided the waters above and below the sky.

Here is a picture of what the boys are drawing each week.

So far they have done Day 1 and Day 2.

Today we made marshmallow snowman paintings. We used marshmallows to stamp snowmen and snowflakes onto black paper. We added glitter and yarn for scarves.