Wow! I can't believe how fast the school year is going. Does it feel like it is flying by for you also?  

We are in Sonlight Core D week #9

Scripture Memory this week:
  

1 Corinthians 16:13-14, Psalms 37:3, Genesis 41:52  

Bible

We have been in the book of Shemoth which is the book of Exodus.

Read-Out-Louds

We are reading, "The Thanksgiving Story", by Alice Dalgliesh and "My First Little House on the Prairie". I started reading last week, "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" but my kids were having a hard time following it. I will put it up for now.

For our poetry, "A Child's Introduction To Poetry" by Michael Driscoll. 

Physical Education

 

We have put PE on hold this semester so we can catch our breath after so much busyness. 

Little Man is doing karate and with both kids we are doing stretching, jump roping, scooters, and what ever fun stuff we can think of.

Therapy and Appointments

 

Bug had Speech Therapy and his doing so well on her /S/ sound that is a huge huge accomplishment for her. Occupational Therapy she is meeting so many goals that she has been struggling with for a long time. Physical Therapy this week she did some jump roping and is getting it. It was a good week for her in her therapy area.

Bug was riding on her knees this week, playing basket ball while on Lily. She will have next week off before the next session.

American Indian Prayer Guide

We have been praying about the Lumbee Indian tribe in North Carolina who are the only tribe that have excepted Yeshua(Jesus) as their religion as a whole. 

They made an agreement with England's King when the pilgrims first started to settle in their area.They are a large tribe but are not recognizes as a Indian Nation and do not have their own reservation.

We found North Carolina on our map and stamped our passport

History & Geography

 In the Story of the USA book 1. The kids heard about Esteban again. We talked about how different the book, "Walk the Worlds Rim" was from the history book. I was delighted in our conversation and how much they remembered from the story. Sometimes I wonder how much they listen!

We learned about the explores Coronado and De Soto and a few other explorers.

 Language Arts, Math, and Misc Studies

This week in art class the kids learned about how to do photo booth and then learned how to edit and make fun editions in their self portraits. Little Man put himself on a roller coaster. Bug found the bug ccostumes and dressed her self up for her photograph.

Math has been fun for Little Man with RightStart Math. Ifeel like I am not even teaching him math. He can tell you all the equations of 10, can skip count quickly with his 2,5, and 10's. Odd and even he has caught on quickly. I love it.

Bug is still doing Math U See Gamma. She is surprising me with how quick she is catching on.

The best thing that happened this week is that Bug read 4 books all by herself out loud to me! This is another huge accomplishment! Granted they are small books and the reading level is way below were she should be. Anyone who has been following my blog knows that this is a struggle for her to read. We went to the library this week and she picked out some bug stories.

 Another Pinterest find. The kids had a lot of fun with this. Bug was really into this craft and spent a lot of time on this.

 Little Man was struggling with mixing up Country and Continent. Hopefully this will help him understand it better. 

 

 

Science

This last week Bug had a pet. Her name is, "Leaf" she is a Broadwinged Katydid. We are pretty sure it is a female by its features from the field guide. We kept it for almost a week and then released it. Bug couldn't freeze it to add to her collection. Which I am glad she released it.

 She did kiss it a couple times while out in the garden! We were spying on her. It kept coming back into her hands. It was precious.

  

We love geography around here. The kids like exploring maps and flags when we come across them. When Bug was little I bought a small passport book but it just didn't fit our needs. I decided to make one myself.

I use those hardbound books that have blank pages inside.You know the kind that you can have the kids make their own books or even a journal. You could also just use a notebook or a journal book which would save you from having so many books. I just had these available. Bug has three world books filled and I need to make another one soon.

The first page I put a picture of her. Put her full name, date of birth, state. I wanted it to look like a real passport for them. I then put her eyes, hair color, weight and address on the first page.

How do I use the passports? We do alot of read-out-louds. When we come across a country in our reading we write the date we read about it. If it mentions a city in that country then we will add that information also.

A reader of my blog gave a wonderful suggestion. She was going to pick up a date stamper from the office supply store. How neat is that! I am going to add that into my passports. More stamping fun for the kiddos. She also found a wonderful website to go along with a passport book. Check it out. Thanks Lea!

If you do use the smaller books you can learn from my mistake. Label the countries on the back of the books. It will save time flipping through the pages. I learned this by the end of the 2nd book. I had a light bulb go off. I know I can be slow witted at times!

I also use it with Sonlight as my core curriculum and we do the passports with Sonlight. We do our passports with all are history studies and any subject that mentions a place.

I bought a package of the world and U.S.A. flag stickers. I have found that not all the countries are included in the stickers. Unfortunely for me it is no excuse for my kids not to have a flag of the country on that page. I am left pulling out an Atlas and drawing the flag to the best of my abiltiy and either the kids or I color it. Have a good Atlas on hand if that sounds like your kids.

I try to choose a stamp along the theme of the story or something about the place. Not always possible. The kids think it is the coolest thing to stamp a book. It makes me feel like a super mommy.

We also do one for the U.S.A.

The best part is that the kids can have the books for many years. The kids love pulling out the books and trying to locate the names on the globes. Sometimes they surprise me and associate a country with a book we read awhile back. That in itself makes it worth it.