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.
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.
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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