• Sep. 7, 2006
Another great day!
Well it was another great day of school. Well all accept for the whinning and attitudes. Jacob had a melt down over reading. I told him to stop being so dramatic and to try. He just wasn't in the mood for school and thought the drama would help him out---it didn't!
We read the bible only for a little bit. I hadn't realized Noah comes up so quickly! I have a hands on project for Noah.
But for fun, I was trying to explain to the children why Lamech had named his son, Noah...."to comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed." I tried to explain to them because of how long they were living, the garden of Eden was not some long ago past historical event. It was very revelent to them. So we did the math:
Here is the results:
Adam was 130 when he had Seth
Seth was 105 when he had Enosh (Adam was 235)
Enosh was 90 when he had Cainan (Adam was 325)
Cainan was 70 when he had Mahalaleel (Adam was 395)
Mahalaleel was 65 when he had Jared (Adam was 460)
Jared was 162 when he had Enoch (Adam was 622)
Enoch was 65 when he had Methuselah (Adam was 687)
Mathuselah was 187 when he had Lamech (Adam was 874)
Lamech was 182 when he had Noah. (Adam would have died when Lamech was 56yrs old)
So as you can see, Noah barely missed knowing Adam---by just 126yrs. We may go back and see who was living (if any) when the floods came.
We read two chapters from "The Corn Grows Ripe" We made a chart comparing their family to ours---we will work on this daily and so far the charts look like this:
Tigre's Family---only has four people in his home, family worships a different god(s) Tigre is almost old enough to have a gun of his own, he sleeps in a hammock and "they have cool names"
The Conner family---We have 6 people in our family, we worship the one true God, Children are not allowed to shoot guns (much to my son's dismays!) We sleep in beds and we also have "cool names."
For science to go hand and hand with our book we started this lesson: http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53171--,00.html Today we planted our corn in the wet paper towels and wrote down what we thought would happen to the corn.
Alex said, "I think it will not grow."
Drake said, "it won't grow"
Lynsie said, "I put my corn in the cup. I think it will not grow."
Jacob said, "A cat will knock it over"
We are to observe the corn each week and then record what happens.
Next week we will add in Math, Grammer and spelling. There will be nashing of teeth and wailing (sounds like biblical hell doesn't it??? LOL) Thankfully no fires!
Comments
• Sep. 7, 2006
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Posted by hiplvmom2
Good Luck to you! I had temp forgotten how hard HS'ing my youngest son (9 years old 4th grade) was..... We had a trial day today.... Oh My Stars. Thank Goodness it was only a trial first day... I am not sure how your do it with your 4! You are amazing! I think I might have a melt down LOL....
I think 3 out of 4 corn projects will start to grow.
Teeheehee
Dana
• Sep. 9, 2006
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Posted by KayinPA
Sounds like you had a great day. We start full throttle, next week (the 11th) the past couple of weeks we just had a couple of warm up days!
