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OK, people. You can stop contacting me asking me when in the world I'm going to publish another "Peek." You can stop calling. Stop writing. Stop e-mailing. Stop stalking me at Publix. I am finally posting one. Seriously, I got a bit off-track over Christmas. I have found that I like to start school early every year, so that we can take a nice, long break around Christmas, and this year was no exception. We don't abandon learning, creativity or teachable moments altogether, but we do put aside our curriculum and generally just blow off some steam. Over our break the kids did things like this...
That is a fort they constructed in the middle of our loft/family room. It was ingenious really when I began to study their building methods. They used zip ties...
and Big D's quick grips...
and, my personal favorite, chip clips.
I was only slightly concerned that the top was secured to the ceiling fan with yarn and more zip ties. And it only took them nearly two weeks to clean it all up. Actually I am still finding the occasional zip tie attached to a coffee table leg or stair banister. We have finally....FINALLY...finished with our Egypt studies. I now have a lot of empathy for the Israelites, wanting to leave Egypt so badly, feeling like a slave to it's every whim, praying for a deliverer. That was me during our last couple of weeks. If I had to say the name Tutankhamen one more time, I was going to scream. Here are the kids putting the final touches on a sticker map that sort of reviewed all that they had studied over the past few
I hesitate to post the next picture for fear that you will think that all of Harrison's math lessons involve food. That is not the case. They are just the only ones exciting enough to photograph. Here he is learning about fractions using peanut butter crackers.
Speaking of food, isn't it great when your kids begin to learn to cook and are actually competent at it? I was really tied up making dinner one night, but I needed a dessert for the Bible study we were hosting, so I put Annaleigh to work making these.
Her industry freed me up for more gourmet and sweat-inducing cooking like this...
I actually had to chop up some of the vegetables for this crock pot minestrone. For PE, the kids both tested recently for their next belt levels in taekwondo. Harrison tested for 1st degree, level 4 black...
Annaleigh tested for brown.
We are on the fringe of Tornado Alley, so here is our version of a tornado drill:
We troop down to our half-bath and hang out for a while until the weathermen tell us it's safe to come out. Harrison always feels better wearing his Titans football helmet, and Annaleigh always feels better using my cell phone to call everyone she knows to tell them we might be having a tornado. I usually wander around the house, snapping pictures, eating Wheat Thins and organizing my mail until we can go back upstairs. I will leave you with a little video that the kids put together for a Bible lesson. Usually, Annaleigh has written activities to complete, but this time her book suggested putting together a play to illustrate one of the stories she had read, and she was all about doing that. Please note that it is necessary to rate this clip PG for simulated knife violence to a teddy bear playing the part of sacrificial beast. Annaleigh is Elijah and Harrison is a samurai sword-carrying Baal worshipper. Bridget, our dog, is a rubber-necker. Enjoy....
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