MFW: ECC and K4 Week 25

MFW: ECC & K4 WEEK 25

This week we start our studies on China, learn about the Great Wall of China, pandas, and much more.  Also do several different Christmas things since our studies are during the Christmas month.  D will learn about the letter J, numbers, colors, and shapes.  Of course he will join us all the activities we will be doing.

BOOK



Some of the books we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse:  ....whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.
~Matthew 20:26-27

~Matthew 20:29-34

~Matthew 21:1-11

~Philippians 4:19

~Psalm 57:1b

~Mark 16:15

~Matthew 21:12-17

~Matthew 21:18-22



Learned about Hudson Taylor this week



J is for JESUS
 
LANGUAGE ARTS



Spelling words and handwriting practice.



Reading spelling words



Spelling quiz



Letter Jj fun 



Reviewing his letters



More letter review



Handwriting practice in the sand

MATH

Lots of math review this week.

Matching colors 

Putting the numbers in order

Coloring in the picture 



Writing numbers 1-10 in Chinese.

ARTS & CRAFT



Giant Pandas are used as the emblem of China, they are also known as a national treasure in China.  Kids enjoyed painting their pictures with plastic forks to look like fur.



Eraser Signature, was more work than we thought but the outcome was neat.



Made different types of Christmas decorations including puppets at one of our co-ops.



Completed their "Keep Christ in Christmas" ornaments for our wall decor.

GEOGRAPHY



On our way to China 



Added China to our map.



Added their plane tickets to their album.

Colored in their China worksheets

Made Chinese puppets and lanterns.

Opened our Singapore packet, great learning about another culture.



Learning about Great Wall of China 

Built a small model of the Great Wall of China for the kids to get an idea of how it looks like.  Got this idea from Paper Toys website.

After learning about the Great Wall of China the kids colored in their worksheets, got the worksheet from Education.com.

Geography game 

Added China to their world map.

Opened up our packet from China and loved the keychains they sent us.  Great addition to our learning.

Added stickers to their passports.

Learning about China and their cultures and people.

  

Kids were excited that daddy came home with some Chinese food to finish our week on China.

SCIENCE



Under Sea observation in their animal search book.

Since the kids have been wanting snow so bad we made some of our own using 2 cups of conditioner and 1 cup of baking soda. 



We doubled the recipe so the kids could have more snow to play with.  It was soft and cold to the touch.



Candy cane experiment:  got 4 small bowls and filled them with different ingredients (Sprite, vinegar, water, and salt water), and placed one candy cane in each bowl.  The kids each did a hypothesis of which one would melt the candy cane fastest and then waited patiently to see which one was right.  D was correct and saying salt water would melt the candy cane the fastest.



Milk experiment:  used red and green food coloring (colors of Christmas).

They came out so pretty, like always.  

NATURE WALK 




For our nature walk this week we went to Hawk Manor Falconry with our co-op group.  Always a very fun trip to learn all about the birds of prey.



Kids were excited to be able to pet Annabelle the beautiful barn owl.



Got to pet goats and observe several other animals while on our field trip.

VIDEOS



Watched Mulan and Kung Fu Panda, just a few of our favorites.

MUSIC

Wee Sing: Fong Swei

FIELD TRIP 

My parents surprised us with tickets to Disney on Ice: Mickey's Search Party as part of our Christmas present.  One of the best one we've been too.  

Loved seeing the excitement on the kids faces.

So many awesome stunts

Moana 

Aladdin, Jasmine, and Genie.

This has been such a great week learning about China, having a lot of fun making many memories with the family.  Great start to our Christmas vacation.  We will continue our studies on China after our break.  We have lots of family coming to town and are happy to take some time off to spend these days for them.

GOD BLESS!!

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