We started the week learning our new memory verse and song, Romans 8:28. What an encouragement this verse was to me this week!
My silly striped girl standing by our new thankful tree. In honor of the Thanksgiving season, we made a tree out of twisted brown paper bags and put it at the top of the stairs where everyone can see. The kids cut out leaves and each day we add one to the tree with something that they are thankful for written on the leaf. Making this a family project, the hubby and I are also writing our leaves for the thankful tree. What an eye opening project counting our many blessings each day as the tree gets more and more leaves!
You can print the leaf template on my Pinterest Homeschool Board.
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In History, we learned that in the spring the pilgrims were given a choice to return back to England on the Mayflower and all declined and decided to stay in America. After a summer of working hard in the fields, the pilgrims prepared for their great harvest. We learned that the pilgrims then had a week of thanksgiving and thanked God for the many blessings. They invited the Indians to their village and shared in a great feast together known as Thanksgiving. They had many foods that we still have today at their large feast; deer, turkey, duck, corn, turnips & other vegetables, clam broth, bread, nuts, dried fruit, pies and cookies.
We learned that the pilgrim children dug on the beaches to find clam shells for the broth that was served on Thanksgiving. We made our own clam shell art project with Caro Syrup paint and glitter. We added a marble in the center as a pearl.
We learned that the Pilgrims and Indians played games during Thanksgiving week to celebrate their good harvest. We played some of the games inside because of a rainy day. We had a jumping contest and then tossed the dog sock into the laundry basket... Moving it back further each time they got it into the basket. They had fun and so did the dog chasing his sock!! Lol!
We talked about autumn and learned more about why leaves turn colors. We did a Science Exploration sheet about leaves as I explained how the nutrients in a leaf entered through the stalk and into the veins of the leaf. The kids really enjoyed this project.
We cut leaves out of paper towels and gave them long stems. The kids drew veins onto their leaves with markers and then we placed the stems into the water.
My son said, "This is awesome!" The water slowly crept up the stalk and into the leaves. As the water reached the veins - the tubes - the color exploded and spread. They loved watching the colors as the water filled the paper towel. What a great demonstration!
This was such a simple and fun project. They even liked writing about it on their Science Exploration pages.
Emerging Readers book was Wagon Wheels and the kids were able to read this together throughout the week. They had many questions regarding slavery with this reading and my son was soon challenged to make a 150 mile journey by foot from the example of the boys in the story.
For our fantasy reading, we chose Charlotte's Web. The library nearby has several copies of the book but, all apparently checked out and not to be returned until the end of the month. :( Boo! So, it looks like we may try to borrow one or look at an old bookstore around town. Needless to say, each day we aren't reading... we are getting behind.
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Take a look at what we are working on in math! Fact families, adding, subtracting fractions and division this week! I have backed off of working from the Abeka Math workbooks. The sighs and complaints were overwhelming. So, we have changed it up and I have printed grade level math packs with several worksheets stapled together that we work on throughout the week. This seems to work so much better for us. I have printed a variety of these FREE worksheets we use from this site. You can check it out.... here.
Here, my daughter is working on a November turkey color by number!
This was a fun mini book that my daughter cut out, colored, and put in the correct order. She really enjoyed this project and it was a great time filler for her while I worked with brother on his math.
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We took a break this week to enjoy a special day with friends. We started out at a Cracker Barrel breakfast and ended up at an indoor trampoline jumping zone called Rebounderz. The kids had an awesome time and loved bouncing out some of their energy!
It's been another great week with HoD. Check back on the blog next week to follow our homeschool journey. Thanks for reading and please let me know if you have any questions or comments about the things we are doing!
Be blessed!
What a great week!
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