Monday, November 24, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!


I've been a little busy the last two weeks, between jury duty(I didn't get picked!), school, piano practice, church, getting all the Christmas' gifts(I try to have everything ready before Thanksgiving weekend, have you ever been to the Mall after black Friday?... it's crazy!!) and of course Thanksgiving. We also went to see the movie Twilight! it was very good!

Last week we did a Johnny Appleseed lapbook, it was pretty basic but the kids really enjoyed it.
We have two more lessons to go and we'll be done with Math U See Primer. We are starting Alpha in January. We are moving right along with reading made easy, A6 is doing excellent with that!

This past summer when I was planning the first half of the school year I had schedule this week off from school. But we started having so much fun doing lapbooks that I decided to do school for two days this week so the kids could do a Thanksgiving lapbook, I got greedy!
Turns out we really needed to have this whole week off. When we got up this morning nobody wanted to talk about school, starting with me. We did read The Night Before Thanksgiving and The Thanksgiving Door but our heart was not really in it. So I made an executive decision and school is canceled for the whole week as originally planned.

Last year we had a six weeks on one week off type of schedule, I thought we would continue that this year but we were having so much fun lapbooking that we just kept going. Now it is time for a much needed break. After this week we have two more weeks of school then three weeks off!!!
This will probably be my last post for this week, we are going to Grandmas for Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Cranberry Thanksgiving


This week we are rowing Cranberry Thanksgiving, which centers around Grandmother's Famous Cranberry Bread, wild Mr. Whiskers and snooty Mr. Horace. Looks can be deceiving!
Geography: New England states
Language arts: vocabulary words
Science: cranberries, where do they grow?
Christian Character/Bible study supplement: don't judge a book by it's cover. 1 Samuel 16:7
The kids really want to make the cranberry bread recipe in the book, I'm not crazy about cranberries but the recipe looks easy enough. Maybe we'll make it for home economics on Wednesday.

Yes, we have a new President. Last Wednesday morning when the kids woke up they wanted to know who had won the election, When I told them Obama won, X4 said to me, "Mommie, we have to pray that he will take care of the babies", and that is exactly what we did!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Elections 08...In November


This week we are working on an election 08 lapbook I purchased from Five in a Row. We get to keep track of the election, we have information on each candidate and we get to learn all about the president of the USA. They kids will get to vote right along with Mom for the new President. We'll be watching the news channels to keep track of which state goes to which candidate. Then when all the votes are counted we will have a new President!





At the same time we'll be rowing the book In November. A wonderful book about what happens to nature during the month of November. What we eat and about one special day in November where we travel far to share a special meal with loved ones.
Geography: how far do we travel for Thanksgiving(map)
Science: migration, adaptation, hibernation, dormancy & weather in November
Vocabulary words: migration, adaptation, hibernation, dormancy
Art: draw nature in November