Shucking corn

C4 watching intently!

The children shucked the corn and mashed the corn. I rolled up spoonfuls in the husk and baked it.

The finished product, Kneel Down Bread. It is not really bread but more like a corn pudding. It was called kneel down bread because the women would have to kneel down to mash the corn and then it was baked like bread.

They all enjoyed eating their 'bread'.

We are getting our wonderful activity/craft ideas from a book called More Than Moccasins.

We are studying Indians for a couple of weeks. Here the kids are making vests out of paper bags. I think it took longer to make the vests then they wore the vests! Oh well they still had fun!

Modeling their vests.

We are doing letter of the week - prep, and this week the theme is the Sun. We are reading the book Sun Bread and learning about the color yellow. I have no eggs right now so I improvisied and made the 'sun bread' with yellow playdough!

Here are some pictures from today.

Thanks for looking!

The fever has found C4 !  This fever is horrible! High fever, vomiting and red spots!

We also started our Sonlight curriculm today. The boys love the books and wanted more!

Here they all are coloring a rainbow with all seven colors - the boys doing the best they can putting it in the right order. They also did a worksheet on the water cycle. That was part of their science today.

If you could pray for little C4 to get better really soon - it would be much apperciated!

The boys love their science book, The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature. We had been reading about the science fair and Papa Bear made a jet powered airplane. So I had daddy give it a try with the kids. They all had a great time!

Here they are watching daddy make the paper airplane

Ready to go

Trying the blimp

Trying it on a toy car

We have been having a lot of fun with spring themed crafts, food projects and printables!

Here are the kids working on their worksheets

We made edible bird's nests - everyone loved them of course!

C1 enjoying his nest

Spring!

Our theme this time around is Spring. We will also be incorporating a study on Easter next week. I will adapting some of this unit study.

I am really enjoying our unit studies. Right now I am using them in conjunction with our Sonlight curriculm. I don't know if I am going to continue Sonlight in the Fall or just continue on with unit studies.  Unit studies are great because I can put something in there for every age.

Here are some pictures from this week.

C2 being the wind

C4 enjoying watching us

Playing with watercolor pencils

I thought this would be a good idea! Don't try this at home!

We have been having a great time doing our family unit study. We have come up with our 'family rules' and chore charts. Things are running a little smoother around here. Our family rules are more of a training guide, a vision of what we want our family to strive for. I know nobody is perfect, only Jesus himself, but that doesn't mean we can't strive to act better towards one another!

I want to work on a family tree as well. I don't know how deep and far I want to go with that.

I also want to incorporate talks about eating well and getting plenty of physical activity. C1 loves 'snacks' but his idea of snacks is more my idea of 'treats', so I am trying to establish what is a snack versus a treat.

We spent a nice weekend together as a family. The sun was actually out this weekend and we spent our time outside! It is so wonderful to play outside as a family!

If any of you have any ideas of more things we can do for our family study I would love to hear them!

We are going to be doing a unit study on "Family". I really like the idea of unit studies, and our family lately hasn't seemed very friendly to one another. I am hoping this will jump start our relationships back to where they need to be, and growing from there.

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The sun is actually out today! Woo hoo! As C2 walked by I saw his shadow/silhouette on the walll and I did an outline of all the kids silhouette. I got my inspiration from a scene in the movie Mary Poppins!

Here are the kids in front of their silhouettes.

The baby in front of her's.

We had a family meeting last week and came up with some family rules. I really think they will help the atmosphere around our home. Here are some pictures of the poster we made.

We read some poems and sang some songs about our bodies and our family this morning, the kids had fun with that. We also made a list of our family members and made a list of what they contribute to the family.

I am excited for this week! Keep checking back I will post more on what we are doing!

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs62-63 God Speaks to Moses, The Ten Commandments

Memory Verse: "Obey your leaders {because} they keep watch over you" Hebrews 13:17

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Hush-a-Bye "

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book "The Clever Mouse "

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pgs 39-40

Social Studies

Things People Do "The Baker"

Science

Learned about the salmon lifecycle again, saw the salmon going up the ladders.

Math

Singnapore Early Bird Lesson 12

Physical Fitness

Went to the park, walked around the salmon hatchery, and had swim class.

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs 60-61

Memory Verse: "Obey your leaders {because} they keep watch over you" Hebrews 13:17

Character

We went to FX and the children are learning about Respect.

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Polly Flinders"

Family Treasury of Little Golden Books "The Golden Sleepy Book "

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pgs 37-38

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pgs 54-57 Fall

Social Studies

Things People Do "The Baker"

Math

Singnapore Early Bird Lesson 11

Physical Fitness

Dancing at FX

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pg 58-59 Bitter Water, Quails and Manna

Memory Verse: "Obey your leaders {because} they keep watch over you" Hebrews 13:17

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "One Misty Morning "

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book "Tiger Gets Stuck "

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 36

Social Studies

Things People Do "The Baker"

Physical Fitness

Swim lessons for the boys

Memory Verse: "Obey your leaders {because} they keep watch over you." Hebrews 13:17

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Three Men in a Tub "

Family Treasury of Little Golden Books "Pets for Peter "

Eric Carle's Animals Animals pgs20-21

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 35

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pgs 52-53 Actual Facts about Thunder and Lightning

Social Studies

Things People Do "The Baker"

Physical Fitness

Hike

Memory Verse: "Obey your leaders {because} they keep watch over you." Hebrews 13:17

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Three Men in a Tub "

Family Treasury of Little Golden Books "Pets for Peter "

Eric Carle's Animals Animals pgs20-21

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 35

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pgs 52-53 Actual Facts about Thunder and Lightning

Social Studies

Things People Do "The Baker"

Physical Fitness

Hike

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs 56-57 A Change of Heart, Crossing the Red Sea

Memory Verse: "Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other" Eph. 4:25

Read Aloud

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book "The Two Brothers "

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 34

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pgs 50-51 Summer Brings Sun and Fun

Social Studies

Things People Do "The School Teacher"

I have started doing 'school' with C3. We are doing fun little things from Letter of the Week. The week we are going to learn about 'Cows'. I checked out some books from the library, we read poems, color, sing, she has a new vocabulary word, shape and number to learn each week. She seemed to enjoy our school time togeher this week.

Here she is coloring a picture of her cows for her learning poster.

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs54-55 Moses Warns the King,  The Final Punishment

Memory Verse: "Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other" Eph. 4:25

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Little Miss Muffet "

Family Treasury of Little Golden Books "Busy Timmy "

Eric Carle's Animals Animals pg19

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 33

Social Studies

Things People Do "The School Teacher"

Physical Fitness

Swim lessons for the boys

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs 52-53 The King of Egypt, The Plagues

Memory Verse: "Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other" Eph. 4:25

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Pat-a-cake "

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book "The Four Friends "

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pgs 48-49 Fourth of July

Social Studies

Things People Do "The School Teacher"

Physical Fitness

Does shopping count?! We ran errands most of the day, Target, PCC, Champion Foods, Michaels...

Bible

Children's Everyday Bible pgs 50-51 The burning bush, Moses listens to God

Memory Verse: "Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other" Eph. 4:25

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Dapple Gray "

Family Treasury of Little Golden Books "Little Peewee "

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 30

Social Studies

Things People Do "The School Teacher"

Math

Singnapore Early Bird Lesson 10 more and less in sets

Art

I made coloring sheets with our memory verse on them.

Physical Fitness

Swim lessons

Misc.

We went over the calendar - month, year, days...

The boys also said what our address and phone number were from memory, horray!

Memory Verse: Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other" Eph. 4:25

Honesty: I speak truthful words and act truthfully.

Read Aloud

A Treasury of Mother Goose Rhymes "Willie Winkie "

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book "The Mouse Deer's Wisdom "

Eric Carle's Animals Animals pg18 "Every Insect", "The Ant" pg. 19

Language Arts

Developing the Early Learner pg 29

Science

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature  pg44-47 Actual facts about the sun

Social Studies

Things People Do "The School Teacher"

Math

Singnapore Early Bird Lesson 9 part B

Art

Monday school, making our Journalboxing Journals and stamps

Physical Fitness

running around with friends