MFW: CtG and Gods Creation Week 12

MFW: Creation to the Greek and God's Creation from A to Z Week 12

This week we will continue our studies on the ten commandments, start learning about the 10 plagues, Egyptian temples, gods, and their belief of the afterlife.  Water in its gas phase and water being cohesive and adhesive.  Also will learn all about insects, its life cycle, identifying body parts, and observe the many different ones that surround us.

BOOKS

Few book we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse: Ten Commandments; I am a wise child, so I work hard.

~Exodus 20:14

~Matthew 5:27-30

~Romans 1:18-23, 25

~Exodus 5-9

~Proverbs 6:6-9; 30:24-25; 10:4-5

~Colossians 3:23-24

~Psalm 19:7-10

~2 Thessalonians 3:10b

LANGUAGE ARTS

Greek word this week: Kinesis (kinetic, cinema)



Reading, handwriting, and spelling practice.



Spelling and Language Arts workbook



Learning about writing letters and how to send a letter.

Observing letter Ii objects

Handwriting practice 

Letter Ii picture cards

Made little circles for the caterpillar's body with the letter of his name on them.  He formed the caterpillar by spelling out his name.

Worksheet and reading practice

 Made some letter bugs with all the letters we have done so far.  He would say them and then erase as he went, getting rid of the bugs.

Reading, spelling, and handwriting practice.

MATH

100 Chart



Calendar and weather chart 

Adding fractions 

Subtracting Fractions 

Learning time, handwriting practice, love that K captured this special moment of me helping D with his writing.  It's rare when I'm in a picture with the kids since I'm always the one behind the camera.

Identifying and counting numbers with his ice cream math activity I made him awhile back, went perfect with the letter of the week.  He would first place the numbers (ice cream cones) in the correct order and then would place the correct scoops of ice cream (pom poms) on the cones.

Made number bugs, same as I did with the letter bugs, he would add the correct number of legs to the bugs according to the number.

Sequence and counting 

HISTORY

Studied about the Egyptian temples, gods and their belief of the afterlife.

Made a scroll of the ten plagues, got this ideas from Jesus without Language website.

Working on their 10 Plagues book, starting with the waters turning into blood.

Kids made their own 10 Plagues book, got these pages from Carol blog, started with the first five this week and will finish the rest next week.

ART 

Made this cute thumbprint alphabet for D.  He loved seeing his thumbprints form something for each letter, found this on Easy Peasy and Fun Fingerprint Alphabet.

Thumbprint Insects, saw several of these on Pinterest.

Kids worked together to form different shapes and this bug, love activities that gets them to work together.

SCIENCE

Skating Drops Experiment

We've been learning all about insects with little man, got out our Ant Body Part lap book I made for when K was in Kindergarten.  He really enjoyed learning about the ant's body.



Learned about the ant's life cycle, he memorized all the stages and was excited to tell everyone about it.

Also worked on the Ladybugs and Honey Bees life cycle.

Completed his Honeycomb picture using a grain of rice to represent the eggs, a piece of white bean shaped paper for the larva, brown paper for honey, and the yellow hexagon shape for the honeycomb.

MUSIC 

Say Hello to Classical Music: #11 Rinsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee

The Best of Vivaldi

FIELD TRIP 

Letter Ii cannot be complete without a trip to our favorite homemade ice cream shop at Gillis Hill Farm with the family.

Story time at the library: Back to School with Math

Counting, matching, and placing numbers in order.

Measuring with blocks

Made cute school buses and school house with popsicle sticks. 

This week we continued our studies on the ten commandments, started learning about the 10 plagues, Egyptian temples, gods, and their belief of the afterlife.  Water in its gas phase and water being cohesive and adhesive.  Also learned all about insects, its life cycle, identified the insects body parts, and observed the many different ones that surround us.  Little man loved trying to catch as many bugs as possible, I had to make sure his pockets were cleared before letting him come in the house.  Great week of learning and fun, now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.

GOD BLESS!!

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