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Friday, April 23, 2010

School Week April 19-23

Another week has sped past us and we have accomplished lots of things! It was busy but I think I could say that every week. H finished up learning about the Great Ice Age in Preparing. I love that he got to learn some reasons why "cave men" looked different. It's so good to have a curriculum with a biblical worldview! He added ice age to his timeline. We are going to do it accordion style so that we can easily store it once finished. H's written narration on a portion of today's reading in A Child's History of the World was very good! I think he does better on the written narrations than oral because he can look at it and see where it needs to be changed a little.
Here he's writing the narration which he also copied a small map of the Tigris and Euphrates on.

We really enjoyed the history readings in Beyond this week! The kids were so saddened by hearing what the pilgrims went through because they wouldn't worship as King James wanted them to. And very fittingly, our biography for storytime that we had picked up from the library last time was Squanto. It ended a little ahead of our history reading but the kids are now excited to read more to see how everything connects. Bible time today was about the rich ruler (which she did on her own, we were a little off schedule for the day!). The kids talked about how the pilgrims had left everything to go to Holland so they could worship God.

S made her barn doors and put her memory verse inside, Matthew 6:21. She loved the drawing, coloring, and cutting with craft scissors!


K worked on the letter 'e' this week, listened in on the pilgrim stories, and did lots of readiness worksheets. His coloring and staying in the lines continues to be much better!


We have been reading through My ABC Verses after lunch most days. The younger two just love the stories in the book and I do too! H listens and does the verse with us but I know he thinks it's a little babyish. I think he will really like what we are doing next though. My sweet hubby brought home Mighty Acts of God, Family Bible Story Book today and I am so excited! I have been wanting to add it in since he showed it to me and now we can! It's by the same author as Grandpa's Box which we are loving in Preparing.



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