Maplewood Cottage Home-Lessons
• Sep. 17, 2007 - Stone Soup
We had a great time reading a version of the old Folk Tale Stone Soup.
We then made some soup out of the remaining veggies in our garden and some other veggies we had to finish up from the fridge. I even let Luke put a stone in the pot. Who knows maybe it will have added a bit of needed minerals.
We also viewed a video about a boy lost in the wilderness who struggled to survive with the help of his trusty dog! The boys talked a lot about what you can do to get protein if you need to ie. worms, beetles, and even small field mice if nothing else! We also talked about if we had to kill a larger animal like a cute bunny that it wouldn't be easy but that it wouldn't be wrong either!
Timmy talks often about going camping... he would love it! So would Luke we don't have any equipment so I doubt we can do something like that but I think mini experiences would be more feasible. Learning to start a fire, use a pocket knife, make a lean too, etc...
I plan on teaching some sewing this week.
Then maybe we would be blessed in the future to be able to do a real camping trip or when they are older they could go with friends or something.
I wanted to comment on the Keepers of the Faith program I really like it! I was just introduced to it via a catalog that came in the mail and then found that a few of my online friends are doing it or planning to.
I would like to take the kids' birthday money from great grandma and buy their guides. Even if we can't buy the badges until some later date doing the activities would be a blessing. I like the character series based on the Bible too.
I won't be too disappointed if we can't buy the Keepers of the Faith character booklets because I found this source is very good for ideas as well as this one.
We are starting with Humility.
We will probably take weeks on one character study because we will read and memorize slowly each day.
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• Sep. 18, 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>
It's a big book with lovely pictures and we consider it a part of our curriculum. I can't say enough in how great the book is and I've seen it being sold online (used copies) for less.
http://store.iblp.org/products/PTS/
of course that's the "new" price.
God Bless, Pam
Edited by stillearning on Sep. 18, 2007 at 8:42 AM