E's leaves:
My Family
Being able to pray and worship Jesus
Crunchy food
Health
The Bible
The New Baby
The Fruit of the Spirit
My Imagination
The Right to Vote
A good education
Friends
A free country
Mommy and Daddy
The ability to play the piano
A soccer team
Jesus Died for me
R.'s Leaves:
Jesus and God
My brothers and sisters
Balloons
Mommy and Daddy
The New baby
Soccer being fun
America
A.'s Leaves:
My brothers and sisters
The New Baby
The Day
The Bible
Soccer
Fall
The New House
Mommy and Daddy
Trees
Friends
Horses
Our home
Fish
Jesus
Birthdays
In the past we've done a Thanksgiving Tree and every night after dinner the kids would write on a fall leaf (paper ;-) ) something they were thankful for. We'd then hang it on the tree. We'd start the first of Nov. and by Thanksgiving, our tree was bursting w/ fall color and thanks.
This year, I didn't get the tree up due to a variety of reasons, running here and there, sick kids, my tiredness from being pregnant, basically, the general busyness of life. The kids would ask and I would think "Oh, I've got to do that" but never did "that". :-(
I had an idea last night of how we could still think about what we're thankful for and display our thanks, w/ only a few days before Thanksgiving. I still had some fall leaves from past years so I had the girls (the boys were playing outside) write on the leaves what they are thankful for, just like we did in the past, just write them all at once. :D I then took their leaves and strung them on gold thread, that we had on hand. I hung them from our entry window, where on this overcast day, they look quite appropriate.
As we prepare to spend time with family and friends, what are you most thankful for? Today, I'm thankful for my beautiful family. Thank you Lord for entrusting them to me.
E's leaves:
My Family
Being able to pray and worship Jesus
Crunchy food
Health
The Bible
The New Baby
The Fruit of the Spirit
My Imagination
The Right to Vote
A good education
Friends
A free country
Mommy and Daddy
The ability to play the piano
A soccer team
Jesus Died for me
R.'s Leaves:
Jesus and God
My brothers and sisters
Balloons
Mommy and Daddy
The New baby
Soccer being fun
America
A.'s Leaves:
My brothers and sisters
The New Baby
The Day
The Bible
Soccer
Fall
The New House
Mommy and Daddy
Trees
Friends
Horses
Our home
Fish
Jesus
Birthdays
In the past we've done a Thanksgiving Tree and every night after dinner the kids would write on a fall leaf (paper ;-) ) something they were thankful for. We'd then hang it on the tree. We'd start the first of Nov. and by Thanksgiving, our tree was bursting w/ fall color and thanks.
This year, I didn't get the tree up due to a variety of reasons, running here and there, sick kids, my tiredness from being pregnant, basically, the general busyness of life. The kids would ask and I would think "Oh, I've got to do that" but never did "that". :-(
I had an idea last night of how we could still think about what we're thankful for and display our thanks, w/ only a few days before Thanksgiving. I still had some fall leaves from past years so I had the girls (the boys were playing outside) write on the leaves what they are thankful for, just like we did in the past, just write them all at once. :D I then took their leaves and strung them on gold thread, that we had on hand. I hung them from our entry window, where on this overcast day, they look quite appropriate.
As we prepare to spend time with family and friends, what are you most thankful for? Today, I'm thankful for my beautiful family. Thank you Lord for entrusting them to me.
What a great place to display the leaves! I too was in the "we really need to do that today" zone all month but (sigh) I'm sad to report ours never happened this year. I couldn't seem to go dig out my leaves. In hindsight, I should have delegated - if I had passed the task to Kittykat she would have just covered the entire house with homemade leaves - which would have inspired the others to follow suit I'm sure. Don't know why I didn't think of that sooner, lol!
I saw your Shelfari shelf in the sidebar - I just heard about that too! Though I haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet :o)
Hope you and your family had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
History:
Child's History of the World ch 85-91
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age
Augustus Caesar's World
Story of the Greeks
Story of the Romans
History Tales/Biography:
Trial and Triumph
Genesis, Finding Our Roots
Never Give In (Winston Churchill)
Geography
The Story of David Livingstone
Natural History
Handbook of Nature Study
School of the Woods
The Sea Around Us
Science
Exploring Creation with Zoology 3
Science Biography
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
Shakespeare
Midsummer Nights Dream
The Tempest
Hamlet
Plutarch
Pericles
Literature
Age of Fable chapt. 29-end
The Hobbit
Animal Farm
The Iliad
Poetry
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Alfred Noyes
Free Reading
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Little Brother of the Bear by William J. Long
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 20th century -- Finished
*The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig -- Finished
***The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare -- Currently Reading
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor -- Finished
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates -- Finished
MIracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen -- Currently Reading
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse -- Finished
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador by Russel T. Hitt
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew -- Currently Reading
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry -- Finished
The Ark by Margo Benary-Isbert
Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stocku -- Finished
History Tales/Biography: Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter by Miriam Huffman
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant
Geography
The Book of Marvels: The Occident and The Orient
Science:
Christian LIberty Nature Reader, Book5
The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Buckley
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store by Robert Friedhoffer
Exploring Creation With Zoology 3
Science Biography:
Isaac Newton
Always Inventing
George Washington Carver
Poetry:
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier and Paul Lawrence Dunbar
History Tales/Biography Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula Finished
Da Vinci
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley
Squanto by Feenie Ziner
Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Free Reading Grade 3
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
History
Trial and Triumph
An Island Story chapt. 1-21
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Viking Tales
American History Biography
Benjamin Franklin by D'Aulaire
George Washington by D'Aulaire
Buffalo Bill by D'Aulaire
Geography
Paddle to the Sea by Holling
Natural History/Science
Handbook of Nature Study
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children Poetry
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now We are Six/When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse
Literature
The Aesop for Children
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
The Blue Fairy Book
Just So Stories
Parables from Nature
Free Reading
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Red Fairy Book
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams -- Finished
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pocahontas by D'Aulaire -- Currently Reading
FIAR Studies
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Glady's Scheffrin-Falk
Phonics
Reading Made Easy By Valerie Bendt
Math
Math U See Alpha
Handwriting
Handwriting Without Tears
My Reading List
Do You Think I'm Beautiful?
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God by Mary E. DeMuth
Other Books We're Reading
Mother Daughter Bookclub
September The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
October Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
November In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
January Little Women
February Betsy & Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski
March Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
April Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
May All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
June The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
July Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Book Club Across The Miles a bookclub w/ fellow homeschoolers across the country The Penderwicks Mummies in the Morning
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Happy Thanksgiving to you guys! I hope your day tomorrow is wonderful!