Friday, May 25, 2018

MFW: ECC and K4 Week 3

MFW: ECC & K4 Week 3

This week we will learn more about the United State, Forest biomes, the name Matthew, different cultures, leaves, the letter Ll, number three, and the triangle shape.
BOOK



Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  For God so loved the world He gave his only son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.
~John 3:16

~Matthew 9:9-10

~Matthew 1:1

~Matthew 7:7

~Matthew 9:1

~Matthew 12:50

~Matthew 19:13-15



K is trying to learn all the books of the bible, love her determination.



Made a bookwork with the word Matthew in Greek.  

LANGUAGE ARTS

    

Practiced writing the letters Ss and Tt, worked on her spelling words and language arts notebook.



Reading some books.

     

Writing letters Uu-Zz in cursive.

     

D is practicing writing his letter Ll.

     

Put down some painters tape on the floor in the shapes of the letters D has learned and is going to learn.  Say a letter and he would jump on the letter then he practiced writing his letters.



Observing different objects that start with the letter Ll.

MATH

   

Counting the days of school and K working on her multiplication and division in her math book.
     

Practicing his number 3 and doing some sequence work.



D is working on his shapes worksheets.

ARTS & CRAFT

    

After learning more about leaves the kids made their own versions of leaves.  D wanted to make huge leaves so they could cover more of the paper.



After reading about Bean and Seed Necklace K wanted to use her beads from her Melissa & Doug set to make her own version of a necklace.  



Learned about how the Sioux Indians used to tell their stories.  We made our own version of a Coup Stick.  It was fun seeing their imaginations on paper.

GEOGRAPHY



Filled out her worksheets to identify the parts of a map and colored her United States worksheets.



Located and identified the countries and oceans bordering the U.S., the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, the Rocky Mountains, the Gulf of Mexico and where we live.  



K placed the United States boy on our map, each time we finish an area we will place another one on the map.



She is showing me the states she already knows, she wants to learn all the states.



Looking through the books of the many different cultures children live in.

SCIENCE



Colored in her map to identify the different forests.
NATURE WALK 




After going for a walk around the neighborhood we observed all the trees around our house.  We have our own mini forest in our backyard.



D wanted to look at our collection of leaves that we have identified and labeled a few years ago.

VIDEOS




Watched a video on YouTube about forest Biomes.

FIELD TRIP

     

Went to the library for D's story time.  The theme this week was Kickoff to Kindergarten.  K helped Mrs. Debbie out (always willing to help) to show the little ones how to fill in the shapes.

   

Kids made their own version of a flag for Memorial Day.



Every kid got a pencil holder with 3 erasers, glue stick, pencil sharpener, and a certificate welcoming them to Kindergarten.

The week has been full of lots of fun and learning.  Kids learned more about the United States, the forest biomes, the meaning of the name Matthew, identifying the parts of a map, different layers of a forest, and made some art.  Now to see what fun are in store for us next week.

GOD BLESS!!!

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

MFW: ECC and K4 Week 2

MFW: ECC & K4 WEEK 2

This week we will learn about leaves, moon, North America, people around the world, cultures, the Tower of Babel, reading a map, and geography.  

BOOKS

     

Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  For God so loved the world He gave His only son that whosoever believed in him will not perish but have everlasting life.
~John 3:16

~Genesis 11:1-9

~Psalm 24:1-2

~Isaiah 45:22-24

~Luke 28-11

~Revelation 5:6-10

~Revelation 7:9-17



Reviewed the Tower of Babel



I am the light of the world.

LANGUAGE ARTS

    

Cursive writing the letters K-P

      

Spelling words, language arts, and some reading.

    

Working on the letter Mm and number 1.

    

Letter Mm fun 



Drawing some pictures that start with the letter Mm, mostly monsters.

MATH 

   

Math Fun with addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication.



She's starting to get the hang of multiplication and division.

     

Completed 10 days of school.

ARTS & CRAFT



Playing with moon dough, a very easy recipe, it's so soft.  Here is a great recipe I got from I Love My Kids blog.



One of his favorite things to play with is his magnetic blocks.  I asked him to make something with the letter Mm and he decided to make a monster.



Took aluminum foil and he wrapped up on half of a paper plate to make it look like the moon.  Then he pushed it down to make it look like craters.  

GEOGRAPHY



K pointed at the map and said what each section and ocean was, then went to the hall way to show D what each one was.  

      

Working on her geography worksheet and learning about reading a map.

       

Working on our world map cake.



Love how our cake came out, and it was really good.  Used a continents mold that I bought on Amazon for the chocolate.



K made a map of her room and our neighborhood.


SCIENCE



Identifying the parts of leaves.



Made an earth & moon orbit the sun that we found on More Time 2 Teach blog.



Observing the moon this week, the only problem was that every night it was either raining or cloudy so we look online to see the moon phase for the week.  Fun seeing him ask question about why the moon changes.

     

After reviewing the way the rain works we did a rain experiment, one of the kids favorite experiments.

NATURE WALK 

     

Went on a nature walk and got some bark from our walk and collected and labeled leaves we collected.  


VIDEOS



Watched Phases of the Moon Astronomy and for space for kids on YouTube.

FIELD TRIP 



This week the kids graduated from one of their co-op groups.  It was so sweet to see them walk down together and get their diploma.

This week we learned a lot about reading a map, geography, labeling a map, introduction to leaves and identification of trees, everything about the moon, and about the rain.  We have completed ten days of school.


GOD BLESS!!!

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