Week-In-Review 7-19 to 7-23-2010

[moedertje]

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What was YOUR week Like?

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[moedertje]

This week was a great blessing, thanks to the way HOD is set up. I have not been able to do school with the kids, because of a recent surgery. I am in the 4th week of recovery. My best friend has been keeping up with school. It is a blessing that we are able to stay in the same guides so far.

For Bigger 1/2 pace: We did unit 14, first 3 days.

At co-op he drew the most beautiful bird and I was extremely proud of him! He has made so much improvement in drawing since he is very much gross motor oriented!

We mostly enjoyed guessing how far an eagle sees and than going outside to measure. We talked about distance a bit since his guess was that an owl could probably see 100 miles. So, after explaining how far that was, he could see that the guess should be a little more thought about. So tonight after church he was explaining to Daddy how far an eagle can see! ds was able to do the measuring with just verbal instruction as I could not bend down to help him in my current condition. I can already see that he will be very disappointed when we are done reading through John Audubon, he has very much enjoyed the science and the life of John Audubon.



Bible Study and learning about leadership was very enlightening as he is the oldest one and he decided to show more leadership when he is playing with his siblings in sharing and teaching them to share with a happy heart. We discussed the greatest attitude of a leader was to be a servant!
His narration is improving, he asks before the reading if it is a narration session and I have told him that it is good to always listen as if he has to narrate and be ready! So he did great and remembered many details about Thomas Jefferson.

Elijah has been so excited to listen to the hyms and even reading the story himself.

I was most excited that Elijah did so well finding his vocabulary word and my Mother-in-law was here helping out and was most impressed with the sentence he came up with!

For LHTH: We did unit 24

We learned about Jesus raising Lazarus from the death! We discussed the fact that when one is sick or dies that it does not mean that God does not care or does not love that person or even that it is punishment. Luke made a great connection today when he saw a resurrection picture of the stone being rolled away at Jesus's grave, that we learned about Lazarus! He had fun making the cave and the stone out of play dough and I had a craft stick that I drew a face on and wrapped it in white tissue.


Oh the letter T was fun to make all on his own and write all on his own and jump off. He has actually gotten all of the letter sounds under his belt, but he likes to teach little sis. The kids get very excited and even my older one comes over when we get the choc. syrup out to write letters on the plate. I guess little sis was gone with grandma so she enjoyed her writing later.


Luke has been enjoying reading his Bob Books. With my surgery I have decided to put moving on with phonics and going to the long vowels till after total recovery! So we have been reading Bob books and he finished box 1.


For Finger play I had big brother do it with them, since jumping, spinning and activities alike are not allowed for me yet! It was rather sad, because I absolutely love getting into the finger plays with the kids (sometimes I might be the one enjoying them the most, but it gets catchy for them!).

It was also very nice to have my Mother in law around in the mornings she enjoys watching the kiddo's learn and she was summoned to do the Devotions with them the last 2 weeks, since we have both the ABC dev. and the "Small Talks about God".

At co-op Luke did his craft and his letter T decoration. For letter T they did toothpicks and tool stickers. He came home and told me all about what he did at co-op as he has gotten accustomed to the last couple of weeks, since I do not attend co-op at the moment.

Once again even while mostly in bed I was able to have the kids do school 3 times this week, because of how HOD is set up.

[countrymom]

Moedertje, isn't it a blessing! Wishing you a speedy recovery but so glad you are able to continue your children's schooling. Looks like they are having lots of fun.

[gotpeace91]

Your kids are so cute Moedertje! Looks like they really enjoy school. I hope that your recovery goes quickly.

[moedertje]

Thank you so much! They did have fun and I am so thankful that school can be fun We are looking forward to this week!

[spidermansmum]

Im at a wonderful spot right now.We are on week 4 of BLHFHG-and Nathan is reading all about king David in his beginners Bible for his reading lessons .Stanley is on week 14 of LHTH-and learning about K K King David.Perfect .We are not planning long breaks-as I think we need to keep school work as fairly constant and consistant.But we are only doing 4 days ,occasionaly 3 day weeks-so our weeks do not neatly fall into weeks-whichIm struggling with -but overall this seems the better option.We will be going camping in August and then taking a week to visit Grandma-sothat will be our summer break.
Here is the link to my blog post for the week
http://stanleysmagicgarden.blogspot.com ... hg-34.html

Here are some pictures ofour science experiments

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Can I just say how wonderfully my son is doing at Math-he is so much more confident now.

[spidermansmum]

We have been doing week 14 in LHTH.[again her comes my explanation-Im stretching LHTH over two years and so sometimes we just sit somewhere if we are really enjoying ourselves]Psalm 23 has a really special place in my heart especially with Stanley.Stanley -he decided that breech was the way to be born .Given that-we 'chose' to do C section.It didnt go well.Ive never had an epidural before-it turns out that Im one of the few that reacts to it badly.Stanley was not as 'cooked' as expected,and had no surfecant in his lungs.I got a quick cuddle before he turned blue and was taken to NICU to be helped with his breathing.It was such a tough few days.Day 4 was the toughest.

I sang Psalm 23 over Stanley in NICU-when I got to the point where I just gave up. I gave up screaming at God.Gave up begging Stanley to show the tiniest sign of improvement.Gave up trying to convince the NICU staff that my baby was improving-even if they couldnt see it.Just said Okay God-lets do it your way-whichever path you take me on.I just havent got anything more in me to fight with.Im done.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qLa_2GPcM

The following morning I got to see my baby's face properly for the first time.He had been taken off the breathing machine-CPAP .He had hair,beautiful black hair.The CPAP is like a minature dryer hose -attached with straps over the face and a hat.
So I cant sing Psalm 23 without being back at that point -and I still cry[Im such a sap].Its been a really special week

[gotpeace91]

Wow, wonderful story Sam! God is so good! Glad you are having a wonderful time with HOD!

[Samuel'sMommy]

We started back to school this week. Samuel is super excited to be in Kindergarten! We are still continuing on with LHFHG at half-speed.
Here's my blog post about this week - http://cherish-each-moment.blogspot.com ... eek-1.html

[moedertje]

I saw your blog and it looks like your little guy is having so much fun! I love his creativity with his coloring.

[spidermansmum]

Sammuel is getting so big.Looks like he is so enjoying school

[gotpeace91]

CTC Unit 2~Day 1

Sorry this is so late but I figured better late than never. We only did 1 Day because we had vacation for part of this week. However, we did make our Nature Journals. I think the kids are really going to love these when they're finished.