We had a great week with HOD. The memory verse was a little longer this week, but we worked on it all week long. The kids enjoyed song track #5 'God is Love' and the action verse games... Hopping/galloping/skipping around until we freeze and say the verse together.
We were still struggling with the motivation to do copywork and so I decided to let them write rainbow style. :) That worked wonders! Amazing how they got excited to do their poetry & bible verse with colored pencils.
We enjoyed reading about the Brewster's and their Palace Inn in the 'Stories of Pilgrims' book. The kids had fun making the Palace Inn wall as the story described by tracing stones with white chalk on black construction paper. The kids then painted green vines up their walls and made red bushels of roses.
In history, we also had fun playing the dice game several times to see who would end up in prison for worshipping who they wanted or in King James court doing just as the king ordered. Many laughs were had as both kids wanted to go to prison to be able to have the freedom to worship God how they wanted and not required to obey the Kings demands. The reading of 'The Stories of the Pilgrims' has opened up many discussions with both children. They are so curious and I love being the one who gets to answer all their questions!
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In Science we used Cheetos as Pollen!
The Cheetos were a little messy but made great pollen for our Science Exploration. Their favorite part was eating them of course and they completed their worksheets with little orange fingers!
The Dice Addition Worksheet
A favorite activity to do while the other child is finishing up their work. I printed these sheets off of my Pinterest Homeschool page and the kids reuse them with dry erase markers. Here is the link for the worksheet:
For Storytime we continued reading our biography about Helen Keller. The kids were both amazed by her interesting life. We talked about the character trait -responsibility and learned that we all are responsible for our actions. The kids made an outline of her life events.
Math at the doctors office! Gotta love homeschooling on the go! Abeka Math is going great!
In Language Arts, the kids learned about 2 parts of a sentence. Subjects and Predicates! They both wrote their first short stories in their journal!
They were both so excited when they finished.
All in all, it was a terrific week and they both completed it with 100% on their spelling tests!
Feeling thankful for the opportunity to homeschool. Each week is getting better and easier as we establish more of a routine.
See you next week!
Be Blessed!
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