Friday, October 26, 2018

Trip to Washington D.C.

TRIP TO WASHINGTON D.C.

We took the week of since we started our week with a trip to Washington D.C. My husband had a business trip there and we took advantage of the trip to explore some museums.  We were excited that my brother from New Jersey was able to join us on our day trip to go with us to the museums.  

The only bad part of the trip was that I had to wear a medical boot on my left foot.  Several days back a lawn mower battery fell on top of it and caused a lot swelling and bruising.  Had to wear the boot to keep it stable and help with the pressure of my foot.  It also protects my foot from the kids accidently hitting it and anything that might come in contact with it.  By the end of the trip my foot was hurting like crazy from all the walking but it was worth the time and memories made with the family.

Enjoy some of the pictures from our day trip to Washington D.C., looking forward to go back and explore the other museums in the area.



Rest stop in Virginia before heading to Washington D.C. for the day, thankfully the hotel was only 12 minutes away from where my husband needed to work.


Kids always love having my twin brother around, he knows how to spoil them rotten.


D was super excited to see the Batmobile, highlight of the trip.














D loved interacting with all the statues, love his imagination and curiosity.












K loves all things Dinosaurs and was so happy to see there was a dinosaur exhibit.











My favorite part was going to the Butterfly Pavilion and getting to photograph all the beautiful butterflies.  


God's beautiful creations


Made their day to have a butterfly land on their finger.













Always hate having to say good-bye to my brother, counting down the days till we see each other again.











MFW: ECC and K4 Week 19

MFW: ECC & K4 WEEK 19

This week we will continue our studies on Africa and learn more the culture and the people.  Talk about the grasslands and the animals that live in them.  Learn several parables in the bible.  We will work on multiplication and graphs.  D will learn about the letter Ee, review his numbers, colors, and learn about the triangle shape.

BOOK



Books of the week




Books to go with our elephant theme of the week.


BIBLE

Memory Verse:  No one can serve two masters.  Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and Money.

~Matthew 6:24

~Matthew 13:53-58

~Matthew 14:1-12

~Matthew 14:13-21, 22-36

~James 3:18

~Matthew 7:7

~Hebrews 10:25



Learned about Samuel Morris an Evangelist from Africa.



Read about "Jesus feeds 5,000" and "Jesus walks on Water".



Jesus walks on water craft, got this idea on Adventures in Mommy Dom website.


Our "Jesus feeds 5,000" craft, got this cute idea from Crafting the Word of God .

LANGUAGE ARTS




Spelling words and workbook 



Poem and spelling word reading



Reciting her spelling words



Preparing for her spelling quiz.



Letter Ee fun 



Handwriting practice in the sand 




Practicing his name and the letter Ee

MATH



Graphs and addition 



Graphs and multiplication 




Graphs and word sentences



Learning the triangle shape and reviewing his numbers.



Counting pictures and addition 



Colors and shape reviews


ARTS & CRAFT



In Global Arts class K learned about Greece 




Then the kids made their pictures using scratch off paper.




After reading the book "Elmer by David McKee" the kids colored in their own version of Elmer.



Learned about African Masks and then the kids made their own masks.



They all came out great 



Kids worked together on making a Drum using an oatmeal box. 



After collecting several nature items the kids made "Animal Abstracts", K made an elephant and D made a pig.

GEOGRAPHY



Colored in Kenya on our world map.




Few of our animals from the Coca-Cola Collection representing Africa.




Rilly the Gorilla from Rwanda, Masa the Lion from Mozambique, Crunch the Crocodile from Sudan, Topus the Zebra from Nigeria, and Clomp the Elephant from Kenya.




Ardie the Aardvark from Niger, Heeta the Cheetah from Namibia, Rhiny the Black Rhinoceros from Tanzania, Ramel the Camel from Egypt, and Masha the Ostrich from South Africa.



Had fun learning about a game called "Mancala" a popular game in Africa.

SCIENCE



In his Bug Science class D learned about spiders and their life cycles.




After talking about the grasslands the kids searched for animals in their bin that live in the grasslands.


After searching for the animals they placed in their Grassland diorama.  


Once they completed their diorama the kids searched in their "Book of Animals" for the ones that lived in Hot and Dry climates.


The book "Elephants of Africa by Gail Gibbons" is a great book to go with the Elephant Experiment in the teachers manual.



Elephant Experiment: this was a neat experiment to see how elephants stay cool.


Grassland Plant and Meat Eaters



We all hate animal poaching, especially these precious animals.

NATURE WALK 



Before K's soccer game the kids went searching for little frogs.




He was excited to have 3 in his hands.




She did awesome in her game today, the team won 2-1.  These girls play hard.



D was very focused today and play hard.  He told us he had a lot of fun today.

VIDEOS


Found a new series on Africa on Netflix, we have really enjoyed watching them and highly recommend for anyone studying Africa.




Got a bit confused with the directions in the teacher's manual so we watched a video on "How to play Mancala" on YouTube.  We really enjoyed the game.

MUSIC



Wee Sing: Bebe Moke 

FIELD TRIP



For story time the kids learned about pumpkins and fall.  




STEM project: baking soda and vinegar inside a pumpkin.



For their craft they made their own fall wreaths.


This week we continued our studies on Africa, learned about the grassland and all the plants and animals that are there.  Worked on graphs for math and finished our Language Arts book this week.  Got to order another one for K.  Also learned more on elephants, pumpkins, and really enjoyed all the arts and crafts we did this week.  Unto next week to finish our studies on Africa.

GOD BLESS!!!

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