Tuesday, August 30, 2022

MFW: 1850 to MT and ECC Week 8

  MFW: 1850 TO MT AND ECC WEEK 8

For this week we will learn about Greenland, George Muller, south against north, the American Civil War, after the Civil War, Nevada, and Andrew Jackson.  Also learn about nature, farming, industry, plant life, animal life, relationships among living things, the ocean, the four C's, plastic, putty, and elastic.  Lots of different things to learn this week. 

BOOKS

Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE 

Memory Verse: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

Matthew 5:11

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 5:12

Matthew 5:27-30

Matthew 21:22

Colossians 4:6

1 Peter 5:7

Matthew 5:33-37

Matthew 5:38-42

LANGUAGE ARTS 

We've been concentrating more on reading and spelling this week, its the area the kids need more help in.



MATH 

Solving addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and skip counting problems.



TIMELINE 

HISTORY 

Read about George Fuller, Graciousness, Faith, Trust, Robert Edward Lee, Clara Harlowe Barton, Nevada, 1800's the First Modern War, Battlefield Medicine, the South Surrenders, transportation and communication advances, the concept of total war, and the north pulls ahead.







SCIENCE 

Learned about the four c's, silly surprise, putty, plastics, and pencil erasers, ways to help protect the environment, Arctic, Antarctica, Ocean, relationships among living things, liver flukes, and animal life.  



Celery Experiment, seeing how water travels in plants.


Elastic Experiment


Observing salt up close


Making bouncy balls 


ART

Made two diorama of the Antarctica and Arctic, and the Ocean.



MUSIC/VIDEO 

FIELD TRIP 

Enjoyed our time together at the lake, always love spending time outdoors together.  




CONCLUSION 

We had a busy week of learning and spending lots of wonderful time together.  This week we read about George Fuller, Graciousness, Faith, Trust, Robert Edward Lee, Clara Harlowe Barton, Nevada, 1800's the First Modern War, Battlefield Medicine, the South Surrenders, transportation and communication advances, the concept of total war, and the north pulls ahead.  Also learned about the four c's, silly surprise, putty, plastics, and pencil erasers, ways to help protect the environment, Arctic, Antarctica, Ocean, relationships among living things, liver flukes, and animal life.  Completed two diorama: Antarctica and Arctic and the Ocean.  Now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.  

GOD BLESS!

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Monday, August 29, 2022

MFW: 1850 to MT and ECC Week 7

   MFW: 1850 TO MT AND ECC WEEK 7

This week we will learn about Canada, Garifuna, Abraham Lincoln, north and south drift apart, the union shattered, industrial north, plantation south, and plantation life.  Read about William & Catherine Booth, boldness, creativity, discipline, Kansas, West Virginia, the gathering storm, secession, Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Union Dissolved, military officers, and the 1860 election.  Learn about Artifacts, artifact analysis, food chains, scavengers & decomposers, population pyramids, did an experiment with a Lincoln Pennies experiment, kids did diorama of the desert and forest after learning all about them.  

BOOKS


Few of the books we used this week.

BIBLE 

Memory Verse: Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

Matthew 5:11

John 20:1-18

John 20:19-23

Psalm 51:1-13

John 11:25-26

Matthew 28:1

Revelation 1:18

Isaiah 6

Job 42:1-6

2 Corinthians 10:12

Matthew 5:11-12

Matthew 5:17-20

Matthew 5:21-26

Hebrews 12:7

LANGUAGE ARTS 

Did some reading, writing, spelling, and worked on forming sentences.






MATH 

Worked on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, skip counting, fractions, and conversions. 




TIMELINE 

None for the week 

HISTORY 

Learned about Canada, Garifuna, Abraham Lincoln, north and south drift apart, the union shattered, industrial north, plantation south, and plantation life.  Read about William & Catherine Booth, boldness, creativity, discipline, Kansas, West Virginia, the gathering storm, secession, Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Union Dissolved, military officers, and the 1860 election.











SCIENCE 

Read about Artifacts, artifact analysis, food chains, scavengers & decomposers, population pyramids, did an experiment with a Lincoln Pennies experiment, kids did diorama of the desert and forest after learning all about them.  









ART

Kids worked on Inuit Carvings, they made a guinea pig/man, spear, and soap balls.




Lesson #67 The Refrigerator Gallery 

MUSIC/VIDEO 

Listened to: "The Stories of Foster and Sousa and Wee Sing: Going over the Sea #2".


FIELD TRIP 

Kids started their cooking class, which they will be doing once a month, and learned to make Blueberry Buckle.




CONCLUSION 

This week we learned about Canada, Garifuna, Abraham Lincoln, north and south drift apart, the union shattered, industrial north, plantation south, and plantation life.  Read about William & Catherine Booth, boldness, creativity, discipline, Kansas, West Virginia, the gathering storm, secession, Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Union Dissolved, military officers, and the 1860 election.  Learned about Artifacts, artifact analysis, food chains, scavengers & decomposers, population pyramids, did an experiment with a Lincoln Pennies experiment, kids did diorama of the desert and forest after learning all about them.  We had a very busy week and now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.  

GOD BLESS!

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