MFW: ECC & K4 WEEK 24
We will finish our studies on India this week and learn about volcanoes, rocks, mountains, stone inlay, and more. D will work on the letter Rr, review his numbers, shapes, and colors. Lots of activities for this week which means this will be a very fun week.
BOOK
Books on India
Few books on volcanoes
Some books about rocks and minerals
BIBLE
Memory Verse: So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
~Matthew 7:12
~Matthew 19:16-30
~Matthew 20:17-19
~Matthew 20:20-28
~Romans 12:1
~Zechariah 7:9
~John 13:14-15
LANGUAGE ARTS
Spelling words review
Some language arts and spelling work
She's done a lot of independent reading this week, need to get her reading level better than it is. Our main struggle with her, blessed she's doing great in all her other subjects.
Learning all about the letter Rr this week.
Had lots of helpers this week with dad helping him with his writing while I worked with K on her math and then K read him a book all about the letter R.
Handwriting practice and spelling his name. So proud of him, that huge smile was him completing his name with no help.
MATH
We started our Advent calendar (countdown to Christmas), this year we included an advent bible verse. Love this great tradition, something we used to do when we were younger.
This week we celebrated our CoCo's 14th birthday, the kids counted down to her birthday and sang to her. Blessed to have her in our lives for this long, praying for many more years.
She's excited to have completed her Singapore Math 3A & 3B workbook, now to order the next level. She loves math.
Reviewing what she has learned in math.
Placing the numbers in order and then counting from 1-10.
Added the correct number of blocks under each number.
Math worksheets
Daddy helping him with his math work, learning about greater than and less than.
Stone Inlay, kids made it out of playdoh due to not being to go out and buy some clay (which I actually thought we had some). Looked up several pictures of how stone inlays are made and look like so they could get an idea of the craft.
In her Global Arts class she made decorative eggs to go with her Russian theme of the day.
D made a stop light to go with his survival skills class. He was excited to tell us the games his played and why its important to be safe when we are on the road.
GEOGRAPHY
Coloring her India flag
Made some India puppets
Learning about Gonds people.
SCIENCE
An isolated life and living in a mountain climate.
Few of the rocks we have from our collection, our collection is pretty big.
Observing some rocks
Making volcanoes
So much seeing how volcanoes erupt.
Preparing their volcano presentation for their science fair at our co-op.
Forming our volcano
The kids Volcano board to go with their presentation.
This week at co-op the theme was Survival Skills, in K's class she first learned about first aid and then made her own first aid kits and then we outside to the woods to build their own shelters.
Taught a basic first aid demonstration for the kids
Learning the importance of knowing who to call in case of an emergency, and the need to know your address, phone number, and parents names.
NATURE WALK
Helping my group build a shelter in the woods, gotta say this was a very fun activity.
Our completed shelter with a flag and everything.
K's group even made a fire pit (pretend, no fire was involved), and a pretty big shelter.
Watched a short video on volcanoes on our Brain Pop app.
Their volcano erupting
Magic School Bus "Blows its top", learning about volcanoes.
Magic School Bus "Rocks and Rolls", learning about rock formation.
MUSIC
Wee Sing "Anilae"
Wee Sing "Kai Veechamma"
Went for a walk with my brother at one of our local park.
Our beautiful Princess
Our handsome Prince
Love seeing the wonders of God around us.
Finished our studies on India this week. Learned a lot about their culture, people, and beliefs. Also learned about volcanoes, how they form, the levels of it, and why they erupt. Very neat project for the whole family. Studied rocks and minerals, mountains, freezing point, and about Amy Carmichael. Unto next week to start our studies on China.
GOD BLESS!!!
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