Week 10 U ~ Us {11/7 - 11/11/2011}

This week we studied all about the Letter U and the Number 7. We also studied about "US".

We learned all about our 5 senses, we learned that we have a Skeletal System - including 206 bones, we learned about our muscles, and we learned that blood travels through our bodies in veins.

Our Memory Verse for the week was Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Our Library Books:

Week 9 ~ Review Week ~ {10/31 - 11/4-2011}

This week we spent reviewing our first 8 weeks. This idea kinda came to me late, but better later than never, right? The curriculum originally plans for you to spend 6 days on each lesson. However, their 6th day is just a reading day and since we read our Library books a couple days a week, it didn't really make sense to me to have a reading day. Nor does it make sense to me that you would carry over from one week to the next!! They don't intend for you to do six days a week, but rather just carry to the next week. Hello? Really? Obviously, the people that made this curriculum are not Type A people, but alas, I have figured out a solution. So, going forth we will do 5 weeks worth of lessons and then on the 6th week, we will take one day to review each of the previous 5 lessons.

It was really nice this week to go over all that the girls learned about the subjects we studied, the memory verses and practice writing those number and letters again.

So, that was this past week. We had to double up on some of the days, but all in all, it was a good review week and I look forward to incorporating these weeks into our schedule!

Week 8 T ~ Turtle {10/24 - 10/28/2011}

This week we studied the Letter T and Turtle and the Number 6. We learned some pretty interesting facts about turtles... Turtles do not have any teeth and they also do not have any bones! We learned that some Turtles live on land and some in the water. We talked about how turtles are really slow and can't run and we read about the Tortoise and the Hare and how the turtle had perseverance.

Here are our Library Books:

Week 7 N ~ Nest {10/17 - 10/21/2011}

This week we learned about the Letter N, Nests, and the Number 5. I can't believe we are in week 7 already, it is going by so fast. The girls are really enjoying it. Most days we do not do school until the afternoon when Cole is napping and usually they are bugging me all morning asking me when we are going to do it. Just this week when we were downstairs doing school, Hayley looked at me and said, "I really like doing school". Priceless.

This week we learned about Nests (mostly bird nests) and how birds make their nests. We also looked at a bunch of pictures of nests online and we watched a video of birds hatching which was really cool. Last year we had watched the live video of the baby eagles and we went back and checked it out and we were able to see both the mom and the dad but all the babies had flown the coup.

We memorized Psalm 116:6, "The Lord protects the simplehearted" and relayed that to how Parent Birdies protect their eggs in their Nests and provide food and warmth for them, so God protects us and watches out for us as well.

Our Library books:


A Nest Craft we did:

Week 6 A ~ Apple {10/10 - 10/14/2011}

This week we learned about the Letter A, Apples, and the Number 4. This was a fun week! We unfortunately did have the opportunity to go pick our own apples, but we did go to the store and buy several different kinds of apples.

We did a taste test of all the different ones, and every ones favorite the ones we had bought were the Michigan Honeycrisps. Then the girls helped me peel a bunch of the apples and we made an Apple Crisp one day and another day we made Apple Sauce.



We memorized John 15:5 this week, "I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." We studied how last week Jesus was like the tree and we needed to stay connected to Him to have life, and this week continued the same idea except that we need to stay connected so we can bear fruit too, and the girls pretty much had remembered the scripture verse they learned last year on the Fruits of the Spirit.

Our Library Books:


We did a craft of making an Apple shaker. We painted paper plates, and stapled them together with some beans inside to represent the seeds.


Someone else really enjoyed this Lesson too:

Week 5 L ~ Leaf {10/3 - 10/7/2011}

This week we studied the Letter L, Leaf and the #3. Our usual day starts with what I call Circle Time. We sing and dance with motions to different songs (Hokey Pokey, He's got the Whole World in His Hands, and some other great kids songs I have found for helping kids with their fine motor skills) We then do the Pledge of Allegiance which the girls have already memorized and then we do our Calendar and Weather Charts. We talk about what day Today is, what Yesterday was, and what Tomorrow will be and we change the date on the calendar to a different color. We then talk about what the weather is like and change our weather chart to reflect that. After that, we usually start with our lesson assignments for the day.

For the Lesson on Leaves we went outside and collected a whole bunch of different shape leaves. We made a leaf book by tracing the leaves and coloring them in. We learned how leaves change colors, and we even laminated some leaves.

Our Biblical Concept this week was 'I will live and grow in Jesus", so we memorized 1 John 5:12 "He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. " We did a visual of this of going out and looking at the leaves on the trees and how they were healthy and alive when they were connected to the tree. Then we took two leaves off the tree and brought them inside and watched how they slowly started to die as they were not connected to the tree anymore.

Our Library Books:

Week 4 M ~ Moon {9/26 - 9/30/2011}

This week we studied M and we learned about the Moon. We did our usual worksheets that help us learn about the letter M and the M sound as well as practice writing them. We also learned about the #2.

In learning about the moon we learned that the moon doesn't have any light of it's own and that if just reflects the Sun's light. The Sun gives light to the moon, so the moon can be a light to the world. We continued on with the same scripture verse from last week, just to reinforce it, and in this context we talked about Jesus being the Sun, then we are like the Moon and we need to reflect Jesus' light to others. One way we visualized this is we went into the dark bathroom (again! It is the only room with no windows!!) and I shined the flashlight into the mirror and it reflected the light onto the girls. So the flashlight was the Sun, the Mirror was the Moon and it reflected the Sun's light onto us.

We also studied the different phases of the moon: full, half, crescent and new and drew pictures of them.

This week I also had a "day off" and Daddy was my substitute teacher. The girls were so excited that Daddy was going to do school with them. One of the activities that Daddy helped supervise was to make a mobile of the Sun, Moon and Stars.


Our Library books for the week: