MFW: CtG and Gods Creation Week 22

MFW: Creation to the Greek and God's Creation from A to Z Week 22

This week we will learn about how Saul tries to kill David, Jonathan warning David, when David runs from Saul, Abigail, and how David spares Saul life.  Will continue reading Homer, learn how to draw dragons and start keeping an art journal.  Learn where the stars go during the day and the brightness of the sun.  Little man will learn the letter Bb, study all things butterfly, how God can make us new, and learn about Zacchaeus.

BOOKS

Few of the books we used this week, so glad we had the "Butterflies and Moths" book, it was an amazing add to our studies.

BIBLE

Memory Verse: Psalm 1

~God can make me new.

~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

~Ephesians 4:22, 24-26, 28-29, 32

~Luke 19:1-9

~Colossians 3:9b-10, 12-14

~1 Samuel 19, 25, 26

~Psalm 23, 59, 25:1-4, 8, 37:1-4

Saul turns against David and the story of David and Abigail.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Going over her words for the week and learning more on complete sentences.

Greek word for the week: LITHOS (stone).

Read a few of her books.

Read them about the painting "Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt", while they observed the painting and then we had a discussing on the painting.

Read the story of "The Boy and the Robbers", great lesson on always telling the truth.

Reading one of her many books, her love for reading is growing.

Working on the letter for the week "Bb".

Observing his picture cards for the letter Bb.

Worksheet fun 



Worksheet fun

Handwriting practice and reading a few of his spelling words.

MATH

Working on fractions

Adding Fractions

Fraction word problems

Calendar and weather chart.

Addition, shape and size recognition, and handwriting practice.

Handwriting practice and number recognition.



Started teaching little man how to count money, we used our Melissa & Doug set Money kit to help with teaching him.

TIMELINE 

None for this week.

HISTORY

Discussed the gods of Ancient Greece and then finished the worksheet and looked over several pictures of the gods.  I got the pictures from 
Research Parent website.

While I read the story of Zacchaeus the kids glued green tissue papers on their tree.  Got this cute idea from Faith Sprouts website.

Read the story of David & Saul, got these coloring sheets from Teachers Pay Teachers website.

ART 

Read and observe the painting "St. Michael's Fight against the Dragon" by Albrecht Durer.  Then the kids drew their own version of a dragon.

Lesson 35: Keeping an Art Journal

Painted their wooden butterflies which went great with the lesson of the week.

SCIENCE

The kids crystal continues to grow and they are so happy with how its turning out.

Learning the Life cycle of a Butterfly.

Observed the butterfly life cycle set we have and then made his own cycle out of his blocks.

Solar and Lunar Eclipses Experiment.

Making their own eclipses.

Apparent Brightness Experiment 

Apparent Brightness Experiment was a lot of fun, at least for me.

His version of the life cycle of a butterfly.

~Stage 1: Eggs

~Stage 2: Caterpillar 

~Stage 3: Pupa

~Stage 4: Butterfly

While watching "The very hungry caterpillar" on YouTube little man punched holes on the foods the caterpillar was eating.

Overwhelming Light Experiment

To go with our lesson on constellation I had the kids make their own star patterns on their paper.

Went into the laundry room to see the kids constellation pattern.

They did such a great job on their constellations.

Bought this cute butterfly at Dollar Tree, the kids really had fun with this.

Cute video of the kids with the butterfly.

Loving his butterfly I got from Dollar Tree.

MUSIC/VIDEOS 

Watched "The Magic School Bus: Butterfly and the Bog Beast" Season 2 Episode 3.  




YouTube video: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle

Listened to and watched some videos on YouTube on: "The Best of Bach: Mass in B Minor (Gloria) & Mass in B Minor (Dona Nobis Pacem)" and "Say Hello to Classical Music: Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Ballegt Suite (Panorama)".

FIELD TRIP 

Finally took our first trip to the library after moving here.  The kids were excited to see how big the library was and all the stuff they have.  

This week we learned about how Saul tried to kill David, Jonathan warned David, when David ran from Saul, Abigail, and how David spared Saul's life.  Continued reading Homer, learned how to draw dragons and started keeping an art journal.  Learned where the stars go during the day and the brightness of the sun.  Little man learned the letter Bb, studied all things butterfly, how God can make us new, and learn about Zacchaeus.  Now unto next to see what adventures are in store for us.

GOD BLESS!!

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MFW: CtG and Gods Creation Week 21

MFW: Creation to the Greek and God's Creation from A to Z Week 21

This week we will continue to read Homer, Greeks, Trojans, Saul, when David gets anointed, David and Goliath, and David and Jonathan.  Learn a new Greek word, the Early Russians, Scythians, and how God rejected Saul as King.  Discuss more on the solar system, the moon, and how big the planets are.  D will start his lessons on the letter Jj, jewels, and how Jesus is more valuable than anything else.

BOOKS

Not all books are pictured here of what we used this week.

BIBLE

Memory Verse: Psalm 1

~Jesus is more valuable than anything else.

~Philippians 3:8

~Ezekiel 16:7

~Zechariah 9:14, 16-17a

~1 Samuel 13-18

David calms King Saul and David is anointed King bible cards.

David fights Goliath and King David bible cards.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading and spelling.

Reading one of her Biscuits book to her brother.

Greek word for the week: HYPNOS (sleep).

Working on his letter Jj worksheets.

Lots of handwriting practice.

Larry Boy wanted to help little man out with his sight words.

He has improved so much in his handwriting.

MATH

Fraction, division, addition, and multiplication.

Graphs, fractions, addition, and subtraction.

Writing down the numbers I call out and working on his calendar.

Addition, number recognition, and identifying shapes.

Put together this math activity to change things up a bit with D, I used a chocolate tray and had him place the pom poms into the slots to go with the number above each roll.
TIMELINE 

None for this week.

HISTORY

This week we celebrated MLK, Jr. day and talked about what he stood for and what ways we can make the world a better place.

Early Russians and Scythians

ART 

Lesson 32: Drawing a Portrait of Mother, K drew a picture of a mother in a book and D wanted to draw his family.

Lesson 33: Drawing Dragons, instead of drawing on we decided to observe our own bearded dragon Larry Boy.

SCIENCE

The sizes of the planets experiment.

The Phases of the Moon Experiment.

Bought these at Dollar Tree to go with our jewel lessons.

Can't believe within 3 days the crystals have already started to grow.

MUSIC/VIDEOS

Watched "Veggie Tales Dave and the Giant Pickle", to go with our David and Goliath lesson for the week.


The Best of Bach: Partita no. 3 for Solo Violin (Prelude) VIOLIN
                           Two-Part Invention (no. 8 in F) HARPSIHORD
                           Wachet Auf (Sleepers Awake) ORGAN
                           Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B Minor (VII. Badinerie) FLUTE

Also listened to Say Hello to Classical Music: #20 Handel: Messiah (Overture).

FIELD TRIP 

Story and craft time at the library: theme for this week was Snowman.

Another story time and craft at the library with the theme being Colors.

Kids loved all the crafts and playing around with play-doh.  It was a sad day since it was our last library visit before we moved.  We will miss Mrs. Deborah Jordan greatly, we've known her for 5 years and she will always hold a very special place in our hearts.

Visited another library to spend some time with Elsa and Anna.

We made it to our new place and are looking forward to our new adventures together.

This week we continued to read Homer, Greeks, Trojans, Saul, when David gets anointed, David and Goliath, and David and Jonathan.  Learned a new Greek word, the Early Russians, Scythians, and how God rejected Saul as King.  Discussed more on the solar system, the moon, and how big the planets are.  D started his lessons on the letter Jj, jewels, and how Jesus is more valuable than anything else.  Now unto next week to see what adventures are in store for us.

GOD BLESS!!

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