Week 17 {1/10 - 1/14}

Finally starting to get our groove back!

Our Bible Stories this week were: Daniel Refuses the Kings Food; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; Daniel and the Lion's Den; and Job's Faith. For the story about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego it had suggested an activity of making friendship bracelets (3 different colored chenille stems twisted together) so we made those... however, it did not help them remember their names! Ha... but so cute to listening to them try and say them!

For Language we practiced Auditory Discrimination (I would say a sentence and something in the sentence would be "nonsense" and they had to listen and tell me what was wrong with what I said); Rhyming and the Letters V and W.

For Math we practiced Numbers 19 and 20 and went over the concept of More and Few.

Our God's World Theme was the Food and mainly going over the Four Food Groups. So we reviewed all the different groups, and talked about where food comes from. We did an activity where they cut pictures out of a grocery add and glued the pictures into the right food groups.

Our Character Trait this week was Hospitality and our Bible Memory Verse was 1 Peter 4:9 Offer hospitality to one another. Of course I had to example it and extend some hospitality and have some friends over for dinner Friday night!

Week 16 {1/3/2011 - 1/7/2011}

Well we took it easy getting back into school this week. We got back from our travels east on Sunday evening and it seriously took us 2 days to get unpacked and get everything put away!

Our Bible Stories were: The Special Book, Nehemiah Rebuilds the Wall, and Queen Esther.

For Language and Math we did Letters T and U and Number 18

Our God's World Theme was "Clothing". We talked all about the different kinds of clothing, and what to wear and when. We played a game where I said we are going to go (blank) and they would tell me what they would wear. We also talked about how clothes are made and how we take care of them and then we tackled the large piles of laundry! : ) Again since I didn't have time to order the corresponding books from the library, this is what we got:

Our Character Trait this week was honesty and our Bible verse was Proverbs 12:22 The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in men who are truthful.

Week 15 {12/20 - 12/24}

This week, we took a break from the curriculum and we just focused on Christmas. We read a lot of books from the library on Christmas; I even found a video from the makers of “The Beginners Bible” about the Nativity. They colored pictures of the Joseph, Mary, Joseph and the Wise Men. I also printed some Christmas themed activity packs for them to do. We will be on Christmas Break until January 3, 2011... See you in the New Year!!

Merry Christmas

Week 14 {12/13 - 12/17}

Our Bible Stories were Jehoshaphat, Elijah Is Taken To Heaven, The Special Room, and Naaman.

For Language we did Letters R and S and we reviewed Name, Address and Phone Number.

For Math we did Numbers 15 adn 16 and Classification/Sorting. Our Character Building Trait was Gratitude and our Bible Memory Verse was ! Thes 5:18 Give Thanks in All circumstances.



Our God's World theme was Winter and we talked about all the facets of Winter. One thing we did was we incorporated our 5 senses and experimented with snow. Talking about what it felt like, looked like, tasted like, smelled like...


No picture of books... : (

Week 13 {12/6 - 12/10}

Our Bible Stories this week were Solomon Builds a Temple, Ravens Feed Elijah, Elijah and the Widow, and Elijah and the Prophets of Baal.

For Language we did Patterns, and Letters P and Q.

For Math we did the Numbers 13 and 14, and Parts of a Whole.

Our Character Building Trait was goodness and our Bible Memory Verse was Galations 6:9 Do not become weary of doing good.



Our God's World theme was Weather. We talked all about all the different types of weather and what we do and wear in certain weather. We played charades and they tried to guess what "weather" I was in, and we played guessing game where I described a weather and they guessed what the weather was.

Week 12 {11/29 - 12/3}

Our Bible Stories this week were Abigail Makes Peace, David is a Kind King, God, Our Place of Safety and Solomon's Wisdom. When we talked about Solomon we talked about being wise, so we made "wise" owls to remember us to ask God to help us to be wise.

For Language this week we practiced listening; (I would pick a word before reading a book and everything I said that word, they had to raise their hand), Letter N, Letter O and What's Missing. For What's Missing I set one complete place setting with everything. We reviewed all the pieces, then I would have them close their eyes and I would take something away. This also quickly led to a lesson on cheating as Hayley would be opening her eyes and seeing which one I took away. For Math we did Numbers 11 and 12 and then reviewed Top, Middle and Bottom as well as Above, Below, Over and Under.

Our Character Trait this week was Gentleness and our Bible Memory Verse was Philippians 4:5; Let your gentleness be evident to all.



Our God's World Theme was The Five Senses. We talked all about what they were and what role they played. We did two activities; one I blindfolded them and then tried to have them walk through the house. At first Alyssa wanted no part of it. She screamed she couldn't see and sat down. After Hayley did it a second time, Alyssa finally gave it a try. The second one we did was we did a taste test to see if things tasted sweet, salty, or sour.

Week 11 {11/22 - 11/26}

Happy Thanskgiving!

This week in school our Bible Stories were; The Israelites Want a King, God Chooses David, David and Goliath, and Best Friends. One of the crafts we did was we made sheep to remind us that God choose David even though he was just a shepherd boy.

For Language arts we worked on vocabulary, Letter L and the Letter M. For Math we practiced measuring, Left and Right and reviewed Numbers. Our God's World Theme was Thanksgiving and we just discussed and read books (no comment!) about the First Thanksgiving and also Thankfulness.

Our Character Trait was Generosity and our Bible Memory Verse was 2 Corinthians 9:7; For God loves a cheerful giver. I even added motions to this one.