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I thought it would be fun to start showing some of our school projects again when I can.  Some weeks we do hardly any hands on things and other times we do many.  Here are some we have finished recently or at the very end of the school year in the Spring.

This is our Jesus poster we finished at the end of our year in the spring with MY Fathers World Adventures.  My son enjoyed this so much!  All year we studied the different names for Jesus and then put the verses that had that name in it with a pic to color that the curriculum provided.  At the end we had a great board of the different names of Jesus!

This is a flag I did with my preschooler recently.  Its made out of popsicle sticks!

We made a Jewish Calendar with my first grader.  We are studying God's word for our history this year.  MFW believes in giving a firm foundation of God's word for First grade before they go on to learn about the rest of the world in history.  History begins with Creation!  I love that.

My 4th grader is studying the book of Matthew this year.  We wrote Matthew in Greek and then laminated it and made a bookmark.

This is my favorite.  In MFW Exploring Countries and Cultures they want our children to have passports.  Everytime we travel through a country in our studies we get a sticker for our passport.  Our first country will be Mexico.  My son had to fill out an application and everything to get one.  My husband made this for him.  He is such an artist and did a great job in making it authentic looking!

This is the inside of the passport!

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We are loving My Fathers World K , my son started this program not knowing one letter, one number, one phonic sound.  I really went into his K year thinking he would be hard to teach and wasn't sure which direction to go in but that proves I shouldn't doubt what God will do, he brought My fathers World K into our lives.  Its a gentle program that makes K fun but educational.  It doesn't push anything, just slow and gentle-one hour a day, sometimes it doesn't even take that long.  Just perfect for my Zach!  He now knows his whole alphabet, he can count to 12, knows every phonic sound we have learned and many character sayings that go with each letter.  He is learning about creation and all the wonderful things God has made, everything that it is Our Fathers World!  And the best part, he is LOVING it!  My 4yr old daughter has picked a lot of this up naturally as well just joining us.  My oldest like many of yours was a child who was taught something once and boom he had it, my second didn't speak until he was 3 and just didn't seem to naturally get things but this program has been wonderful.  I can't tell you how excited he gets when he learns something and it just clicks!  We both jump up and down and get so excited.  Now that is homeschooling and loving it!  I wouldn't want anyone to experience that with my son instead of me and his dad, I feel so blessed to be apart of his learning!

One of the things we do is make a badge, at the end of the year we will have 26 badges with character and biblical saying's on them.  I have showed some in other show n tells- here are a few more we have done.  At the end of the year I will show our bulletin board with all of the on it.

 We have been learning about dinosaurs for Dd and Octopus for Oo and Turtles for Tt and Uu for us where we learned about our bodies and how wonderfully they are made.  We also learned Nn for nest to remind us that God always takes care of us.   So we have read books about these subjects, learned the letter for them, made a badge, and learned the phonic sound for each.  Its great how everything goes together. 

These are octopus's that we made out of our hands.  I have seen hand turkey's but never hand octopus's.  My young ones loved these!

These are some of the books we have been looking through for these subjects.   My Fathers World does book basket, so we just mostly skim the books, there are a few we read but I don't want you to think I have my K and preschooler reading all of these.  We just sit on the couch and look through them for fun!  It is amazing what you learn like that!

This one came with MFW, we loved it.  Its a book from Ken Ham and John Morris.  It tells you what they believe happened to the dinosaurs after creation and where they fit in during our history-it kept my grade K attention the whole time!

We got this one for Christmas, you open the book and body parts pop up at you, real neat book!

I know I have some readers from the My Fathers World Boards.  I thought you would enjoy seeing some of the books and activities we have been doing.  I still skip alot of things.  Because I do have a 3rd grader doing adventures I don't get to do a lot of hands on stuff with the K student.  So I try to get some books in and do the badges, and let him participate in some of the adventure science experiments and so forth.

We made an animal cell.  The outer membrane is a freezer bag, the inside is jello with a ball in it for the nucleus and beans are the organelles, it looks kinda gross but it is just jello, my son had a blast making it. 

WE are loving the Usborne internet linked First Encyclopedia of Science that My Fathers World Adventures includes.  This book is so colorful and really brings the photographs out of the page. 

In history we learned about Eli Whitney, who invented the Cotton Gin.  Wow, how this made things easier-you no longer had to hand pick the seeds out of the cotton which took forever and made cotton very expensive, too expensive for most to buy.  The job was mostly given to slaves and a very time consuming job, if you picked the seeds out wrong you would tear the cotton, all the seeds had to be hand picked out slowly usually in very hot temperatures. The cotton gin made the cotton crop explode.  We made seeds in cotton and hand picked them trying not to tear the cotton, what a challenge.  

We have had lots of fun this week!  Next week I will be showing some of the great things we are doing with my fathers world K, I have several neat things to show with that.  We are truly loving this curriculum!

Angela

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Our fathers day theme we just finished up in our K curriculum was apples (very fitting for Fall) 

Books we read for our apple theme.  The Best Apples to Buy and Grow was a great book to look at beautiful pictures of all kinds of apples.  The story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki was loved by my K child.  He listened to every word but who doesn't love Johnny Appleseed?  Ten Red Apples was great because it enforced our counting, we really enjoyed counting the apples on every page and The Apple Pie Tree show all the seasons the tree goes through and how at the end you get a beautiful apple pie out of it, Very Good Book!

This is our badge.  Our saying for apple is When you Stay in Jesus, you will have much Fruit.

I love this apple tree we made.  It starts with his hand and a little of his arm.  Zach (5) and Allie (3), dipped their fingers in red paint and put the apples on it!  They had a blast with this!

My 3rd grader is learning all the names for Jesus, this past week is was LIving Water.  One of the verses went on his poster board with Jesus's names (I will post sometime) and the other on our pitcher of water to remind us everytime we pour water that Jesus is the Living Water.

Well if you read my Monday Meanderings, you will know we were on vacation this week but here our a few projects from last week that I haven't showed yet.  Join Canadagirl for more show n tells. 

We talked alot about canoes last week and how much they were used in colonial times so we made one.  My son loved doing the yarn part and did a really good job with it.  He decided to put markings on it like Indians would do!

My son loved studying Ben Franklin, he was so impressed with him, I have to admit I Iearned more about him then I ever knew before.  My son kept saying, wow, he started the first fire dep., the first hospital, discovered electricity, had a printing press and was a founding father.  The book basket MFW incorporates is wonderful for this.  For the ones who don't know MFW, they have book basket time everyday- every week you go to the library and pick books that the Teachers Manual suggest or you can add your own.  So if you are studying Ben Franklin you read about him some in history and then they have lots of books on him in the basket, I'm amazed at what my son picks up 10-20 minutes of book basket time a day.  He has learned so much and can't wait to see whats going to be in the basket next week.    Here we made an almanac that Ben Franklin printed (the supplies were given by MFW)  My husband got so into this he looked up all kinds of sayings that you would find in Poor Richards Almanac!  Sam got quite a kick out of some of them.  The ones below are the ones that came with ours.

In science they wanted to you to pick a tree in your yard or neighborhood and draw and paint it every season.  So this is Fall, he drew the tree with a pencil and then painted the leaves, sun and sky.  This will look neat at the end of the year because he will have done the same tree for each season!

Hope you enjoy!  Can't wait to see some of your show n tells this week!

Angela

Here are some of our projects from this week!  Hope you enjoy!

This is our leaf badge, I will live and grow in Jesus!

My 3 and 5yr old leaf rubbings! 

Some great books we read this week, my kids especially loved Leaf Man!

My 3yr olds leaf book-all the leaves that have fallen here are brown, we have had quite a drought so none of the pretty colors are really out yet!

Our homemade playdoh, it really turned out good, my daughter has been playing with it all week-this was from adventures for science.  The only thing missing was food coloring so we have it white but thats okay!

And last our bread that we made.  We didn't go all out, its a box bread that you just mix and bake!  Its for our new name that we learned for Jesus, The Bread Of Life!  We enjoyed eating it too!

Happpy Show and Tell, I can't wait to get around to seeing all of yours!

Angela

I am partcipating in Candagirl's Friday Show n Tell so I can show all the fun projects we do in My Fathers World!  We are doing Adventures with my 8yr old and MFW K with my 5yr old.  We are having lots of fun as you can see!

These are our Indians Tepees.  We are also learning all the different names for Jesus this year and our second name after Jesus is The Light.  We had a candle and we glued on salt and our banner that says Jesus is the light of the World.  We light this at dinner now to remind our family, without HIS light we would be in darkness!

This is our 2nd K badge, this week is the moon.  This reminds us that we are the light of the World when we know Jesus!  We should let it shine so the world can see!  Without light (the sun) we wouldn't have the moon.  Without Jesus we wouldn't have the light!

This is our homemade sundial, nothing fancy- clay and a pencil and a piece of cardboard-it really works, we put it out in the sun and it did turn when it should have.  This is from MFW K. 

I don't want any of you to think I'm super homeschool mom, my husband helps a lot with the projects, actually he does most of them, some weeks all of them.  I do all the book work and reading and he enjoys doing these at night with the kids, (its a great bonding time with Dad)  If you do have a DH who is looking for a  way to be involved, projects and science experiments are great ways!  I think most Men enjoy this stuff more then us women (usually)  However if your dh can't or isn't interested just do what you can, I try to pick the easier ones for us to do and leave the real in depth ones out, children really do love these, and hands on learning brings lots of great memories!

Our Indian Wigwam we made for Adventures!

Our Timeline (we use the geography matters timeline)

Our first MFW badge, the sun!  Jesus is the light of the World!

My son was at childrens church on Sunday during the service this past Sunday.  The teacher was looking for a video that she wanted to play but couldn't find it so while she was looking she asked the kids to draw something that they recently learned.  My son drew Christopher Columbus, and John Smith.  He added viking clothes and everything.  He has been so excited about his history this year thanks to My Fathers World Adventures.  It just brought tears to my eyes that what we did here during school time was exciting enough for him to think of that first.  He knows so much more then I ever did about the founding of our great nation!  With the history books, hands on activities, and book basket he is just filled with information.  We are also doing some great read alouds from Sonlight Core 3 at night, that is the American History Core, thanks to a great friend in my coop that loaned them to me for the year because she wasn't using them-what a blessing!  He is so interested in the vikings, explorers and the Indians, right up a boys alley.  I can't tell you how much fun we are having.  I thank God everyday for bringing My Fathers World into our lives, it was truly what I was looking for.  Thank you to my dear friend Dorothy who helped me discover what a great curriculum that it is after sharing all of her notebooks and materials with me, its such a perfect fit for our family. 

Angela

We are having such a great time with MFW K this year.  For 10 days you do an introduction period learning about creation.  Each day you do a day of creation until you get the whole book done with 7 days. In that time you also go over letter recognition and the ABC song. After the 7th day you review for 3 more days adding in some new songs.  My kids have had such a great time with their creation books, even my 3rd grader wanted to do one so we let him partcipate (if a child volunteers to do a project, by no means should you stop him) 

We did a little school today (saturday) because we missed a day plus the holiday, so we started Lesson 1 today which is about the Sun.  My 5 yr is loving it!  Its really exciting for me because I worried about his schooling, he was the only child I had that couldn't count or know any of his letters, he didn't talk much at all until he was 3 1/2.  He is a young 5 (just turned in August)  and its okay to me if he is not totally ready for K work, I have him in a pre k handwriting book and some other prek stuff as well, if we did regular school I would have never sent him this year.  This program seems perfect for him, he is learning about the world God created and we can't wait to make raisins, have an ant farm and see butterflies come out of their cocoon.  It adds some light math, such as calendar, counting to 100 and just basic adding and some phonics to teach them to begin to read.  Its very gentle and just perfect for him.  I'm amazed in just a few weeks all that he has learned, he is counting, he is recognizing many letters and is drawing like crazy.  Its so exciting for me to see, it truly makes my heart swell and its been such a bonding time between us, he is the middle child and that hasn't always been easy to fit in. 

David Hazell (founder of MFW along with his wife Marie)  says that every K student deserves at least one hour of your time to do a good K program, its so easy to help the older ones and worry about all they are doing in school and not spend enough time with the younger ones.  Its not fair to them and I'm so glad we are doing this program with him this year, the things we are learning together will be worth so much and I wouldn't trade a minute of that time with him.

Angela

 Check out canadagirlblog for show n tell.  I thought it would be fun if on Fridays I would try to show n tell my fathers world projects we are doing.  Some weeks that we don't have any projects I will show and tell something else but if there is I would like to show what we are doing. 

This is a picture of our three boats.  The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria-My kids had such a great time making their boats with their dad.  I think he had just as much fun if not more.  They floated good and by making them my 3rd grader is remembering the names of the ship real well.  It shows that the hands on projects do help children remember!

I can't wait to make some of the other great projects this year with MFW K and Adventures.  If you have pictures of your school projects, leave a comment.  I would love to check them out!