BIBLE: This week we talked about what Jesus says about a special kind of water called, Living Water.
Memory Verse: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink." John 7:37
Bible Activities: We added the Living Water picture to our Names of Jesus poster. I'll have to take a picture of this soon to give an update on it.
SPELLING: Standard week in spelling. :)
ENGLISH: This week in we had a conversation lesson on The Care of Pets. Answering questions about dogs, canaries and horses. Quite interesting actually. It was a lengthy lesson so we carried it out over a couple of days. Then we touched on the topic of how to use "to," "too," and "two" when we are writing sentences.
HISTORY:
We read in a book called The Fourth of July Story and covered a few different parts:
The Birthday of Our Country
Writing the Declaration
To Carry the News
We talked more about George Washington and Caleb doesn't mind this at all. We also read about Thomas Jefferson from our The Story of the U.S. History book.
We went over the thirteen colonies and colored a map of them to put in Caleb's history notebook. We also looked at a facsimile page of the Declaration of Independence.
Timeline: We added to our timeline the Declaration of Independence and the United States Becomes a Country in 1776.
Read-A-Loud: Okay. We just couldn't stand it. Sarah Whitcher's Story was a clincher. We finished it a week early. Oh, if you ever have a couple of hours to spare, pick up a copy from your library and give this story a read. I don't want to ruin the story for anyone, but it was so good. So heartwarming...and encouraging at the same time! Have a couple of tissues handy, too.
Hands-On Activity:
Hasty Pudding: In Colonial times the people served pudding at any meal and sometimes it was the whole meal. This pudding wasn't a sweet pudding. Since we've been listening to Yankee Doodle and some words in that song are, the men and boys were "as thick as hasty pudding" we're making some hasty pudding to try.
Needless to say my picky eater did at least taste it, but that was it. I tried to eat some, but I guess it wasn't my cup of tea either. Now, granted, if that was all the food choice I had, I would eat it and I'm sure Caleb would, too. But, we are very blessed to have plenty of other options rather than Hasty Pudding.
MATH: We continued with our Singapore Math lessons, wrapping up about 8 lessons this week.
SCIENCE: We had a full week with science. Lots of activities to do and as usual it was still not enough for Caleb. He's all about that science!
Soaked Through: How well do different things soak up water? We used a variety of things from around the house to see which one's soaked up the most water. As it turns out, the more porous items soak up more because they are full of tiny holes and those holes let the water in.
Soaking Colors: Using pieces of coffee filter and markers we watched the water make spread the marker up through the coffee filter.
Disappearing Water: Wet two towels and put one in a plastic bag. Which one dries out first?
Salty Water Test: Add salt to water.
Give it a stir.
Rainbow Sugar: Add sugar to water and a bit of food coloring. Let dry for three days.
HEALTH/MANNERS: How to set the kitchen table. Caleb had to look over a picture of a place setting and we talked about the different utensils being to the left, above, between, below, to the right of each other. Then he had to draw a place setting himself. He did great!
MUSIC: We read the story of The Nutcracker this week. I can't believe in all these years I had never read that story. Or if I did it was so long ago I had no recollection of what it was about.
The Marble Test: What happens to marbles when you get the soft surface they are sitting on wet?
Soaking Colors: Using pieces of coffee filter and markers we watched the water make spread the marker up through the coffee filter.
Disappearing Water: Wet two towels and put one in a plastic bag. Which one dries out first?
The next day the one in the bag is - - - ah, yes, still wet and the one on the plate was dry.
Salty Water Test: Add salt to water.
Give it a stir.
And a taste! UGH!
Rainbow Sugar: Add sugar to water and a bit of food coloring. Let dry for three days.
And you get dried sugar crystals....
HEALTH/MANNERS: How to set the kitchen table. Caleb had to look over a picture of a place setting and we talked about the different utensils being to the left, above, between, below, to the right of each other. Then he had to draw a place setting himself. He did great!
MUSIC: We read the story of The Nutcracker this week. I can't believe in all these years I had never read that story. Or if I did it was so long ago I had no recollection of what it was about.
Another week in MFW is wrapped up. I'm getting closer and closer to getting this blog caught up! Between illness, holidays, school breaks, death's of acquaintances, and such....there has been a lot to contend with in recent weeks. But, God is good and we will get through it all in His time.
Educating in Christ,
Momma/Pam
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