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Lisa's Little Corner
Friday, October 3, 2008
Our time in Mexico-ECC
Okay, so we weren't actually in Mexico, but we definitely learned about it (and Central America)! I just thought I'd share with you some of the adventures we had. 
Here's the bible verse we memorized for the last week. The top one was Vincent's copy work, practicing his new handwriting skills. The bottom one was the next day's dictation of the verse.
Here's our flag wall, where we will hang up all the flags of the countries we learn...Vincent is coloring them and writing facts on the back about the symbolism in the flags. So far, we have the USA and Mexico.
Here are some of the art projects we did...we made suns out of air-drying modeling clay (we have yet to paint them) and tissue paper flowers. These were so fun!
And here are some of my favorite notebook pages Vincent made for science...we had been learning about deserts.
Okay, I'm not really sure if a girl would have drawn a tarantula eating a bug! *giggle*
The next one is my favorite...
And this one is so cute. It says "Many desert people now travel by car but still keep camels." That's a camel in the back of a truck. 
We finished reading our first missionary biography of the year, too. It was a very good read, and we are looking forward to the rest of them!
And what's Isaac usually doing during school?
Oh, and in other news, I've officially started my fall baking.
Love,
Lisa |
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
ECC is going great!
Sorry I haven't updated in awhile! Between school starting and adjusting schedules with that and Isaac, we've been too busy for me to mess with uploading photos. LOL! So this is kind of a catch-up post.
Weeks 1 and 2 we learned all about maps and globes. Latitude and longitude. Different kinds of maps, how to read maps, what kind of info maps can tell us. We peeled an orange and tried to flatten the peel to see why flat maps are so distorted. We also memorized the names and locations of the continents and oceans. At the end of the 2nd week, we made this cake.
We also re-visited John 3:16, and colored some sheets that had it in different languages. We learned that we were going to be studying and praying for different cultures and people groups around the world. We would also learn about various missionaries and Christian heroes. Vincent made a chain paper doll, and Andrew made a chain of hearts. 
We started weeks 3 and 4 off right here in the USA. At the end of the 3rd week, this proud mama gave Vincent a blank map and and alphabetical list of the states, and he placed each one correctly without any help! I was just beaming with that one, as I thought he would balk at it. We learned an Omaha Indian song and sang the Eentsy Weentsy Spider. We started reading the book of Matthew in the bible (Matthew is the focus this year...the Great Commission and all that). We also started reading a missionary biography about Cameron Townsend and his missions in Mexico and Central America. Very interesting reading. We are learning about desserts for science, and we made Navajo sand paintings. Here's Vincent's:
We just bought colored sand from Walmart and painted glue in a design, and sprinkled away! Beautiful!
Oh, and I colored in on a map all the states we have been through/to.
Still have quite a few to get to, don't we?
We just finished week 5. Weeks 5 and 6 are Mexico. We are still in the dessert for science. All week long, I have been having fun learning new Mexican recipes to try, and we have all been having fun eating them! I will continue next week, although I will probably add some Carribean stuff, too. We have been playing a game to help us learn all the countries in North America, as well as the major islands in the Carribean. We've only played it twice and Vincent's already bored because he already knows all the countries. We've learned some Spanish expressions, and we've learned a little about the Mexican culture and people. We've especially gleaned a lot by reading about Cameron Townsend. We will learn more about Mexico next week, and then we will "fly" to Canada. (Yes, Vincent even has a passport!) Oh, yeah, Vincent's been learning his cursive this year, too.
And here's a couple silly shots. Andrew's learning to be goofy. LOL!
And Isaac learned to smile!!!
Okay, that is a *really* cute last picture to leave y'all with! This was a really long-winded post (whew!), and I'm really really going to try to keep current here!
Love,
Lisa |
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Monday, August 11, 2008
A new school year
We were supposed to start ECC next week, but we are having our moving sale at the end of that week, so starting the school year then wouldn't be the best. ;-) We have everything we need already, so we decided to start today and then take next week off. We were too excited to wait another 2 weeks! LOL! We are off to an awesome start so far and I cannot wait to see the fruit this year produces!
We started the morning off with an easy cereal breakfast. Baby Isaac was asleep, and after breakfast, Nick had to run some errands, so he took Andrew with him so that Vincent and I could have a quiet first day. :-) We started off learning about a book we will use this year called "Window on the World." We also started learning cursive today as well. That went over lots better than I thought, and he's doing a good job already! Then, we picked up where we left off in math and English. Vincent filled out his passport application to be able to "travel" around the world this year, and we started learning about maps for Geography. For science, we learned about what environments are, and Vincent started his science notebook. For music, we started listening to Wee Sing Around the World. Lastly, Vincent picked up where he left off for reading...he started his McGuffey's 5th Reader today. And I think before bed, we will find a book in the book basket to read aloud. :-)
Andrew is also way more interested in school than he was last year. He and Daddy came home before we were finished, and he climbed up into a chair at the table and wanted to be a part of everything. :-) Next year, I will get him the preschool package from My Father's World. He already has the toddler toys and has absolutely loved them.
Love,
Lisa |
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Nature Walk
Well, we are getting ready to start Week 3 of Adventures tomorrow! We are ALL loving school and every bit as excited (if not more!) as at the beginning. Today we did our first nature walk. It was so fun! The whole family had a really good time exploring a neat park by our house. I have more about this with pictures here.
Love,
Lisa |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
2nd grade
Well, we have completed our 2nd day of second grade (any Veggie Tales songs come to mind? LOL!). It's going really well so far! We are studying American History this year and it's going to be so fun! We have started a binder for our US History Notebook...I can't wait to see this thing grow. :-) For our first day, we had a snack of yogurt, blueberries and strawberries. We did a brief review of the Pledge of Allegiance, and we are doing a brief overview of maps. Vincent got his own NIrV bible, and we will be focusing on the names of Jesus this year. When I gave Vincent his bible, he wanted to look up John 3:16 :-). Last year in first, we learned all the books of the bible. It took him awhile, but he found it and read it on his own. I love it! Vincent's reading has really been coming along...he was able to read the directions and complete pages in his math and spelling books all on his own! Friday we will kick off reading in history about Lief Ericksson. We are also doing "I Can Do All Things" for art...starting off with very simple exercises, but we are both loving it.
Next week, we'll explore his bible more, learn about Christopher Columbus, start music (starting off with "God Bless America"), start the "fun" science, and start Spanish. I found a really good free resource for this here. We want to eventually do Rosetta Stone, but we couldn't afford it this year, so this will be at least a pretty good intro. Vincent seemed a little leery when he learned he would be doing Spanish, so we'll start gently and just see how it goes. If he's struggling, we'll wait.
We're both very excited about the year. I love American History, even though I know there's a lot I have forgotten, so it will be fun to re-learn things this year! And it will be way more fun than the way I learned it (not homeschool). :-)
Love,
Lisa |
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