I've been waiting for a chance all weekend to sit down and share about our week with all of you.
We had a wonderful week getting back into our routine and doing school! The kids and I all loved it!
In Bigger, Grant and I have been learning a lot about George Washington. (I'm pretty sure that he thinks George Washington is as interesting as I do...
) We're loving the history readings! Eggleston really does a great job of bringing the characters to life.
Here is some of our science for the week brought to life...
We're reading about John Audubon still and his fascination with God's creation. We investigated an egg as one experiment...
And saw how God provided
everything that the chick needs to grow.
After this experiment, Grant wanted to fry his eggs, so it turned into a cooking lesson too!
He made fried eggs as a snack every day this week, and was so proud of himself!
(Honestly, he may know how to cook more than his dad now.
)
In our book about John Audubon, Grant really enjoyed the story of John choosing a birthday gift for a girl where he bought a silver candlestick and then had a little green snake stuffed and wrapped around it. John thought it was beautiful...and Grant just knew she was going to scream.
She did.
Here he is trying to slither like a snake. He's closing his eyes because snakes can't see very well...and he's following a "scent trail".
I have seen so much progress in Grant this year in his ability to use many of the skills that Bigger teaches. He's able to focus on the task he has and finish it well...and in a timely manner.
This week we were able to do all the school we wanted to and he still had several hours to play outside, run the trapline with his Uncle Matt who's home from college still, go deer hunting with dad, read, and go "beanbaggin'" with his brother and sister!
Alli and Garret were also thrilled to do LHTH again! Garret said, "Mom, we haven't been doin school for a long time. So, we need to do it. 'Cause it's fun!" We got to knock down a lot of things this week as we acted out our Bible stories about Joshua...and Samson. Of course that was a hit!
We made circle, square, and triangle walls for Jericho that we marched around...
Here we used socks to knock down the pillars that Samson pushed down in his God-given strength...
We talked about talents that the Lord has given each of us and how we can use them to glorify Him. Allison said that she can sing and play the violin...and she wants to learn to play the piano and be a "cooker". Garret said that he's good at driving things, and when he gets big he's going to drive Grandpa's skid loader and feed cows.
(Garret was actually circling us with a tractor during this conversation, and I didn't even think he was paying attention.
) I have to say, too, that I'm LOVING your devotional Julie! I was convicted the day before I had this conversation with the kids about living a shining example to them of glorifying the Lord in my everyday life. (I was on the "strength of character" chapter.) Thanks for your ministry in writing this devotional for us! You have been pointing me to the Lord through it.
Allison and Garret also enjoyed deciding which things were heavier and lighter...and lining them up.
This week we were out of Cheerios to glue on our "I's"...but we had a lot of buttons left over from a bookmark craft project that we did before Christmas...so we made these extra-special button "I's".
After these were sufficiently admired, they were put into our special folder of things to save.
I look forward to reading about all of your weeks when you get back to it!
Kathleen
I know it's here, but apparently it has been set aside somewhere and I can't locate it. Once it does turn up we will have a daily schedule for it too. I worked a bit on a schedule over the break, and I think I've hit on something that will work. 