What a fun week with Heart of Dakota! Have I told you how happy I am with this curriculum? It is such a blessing to our family.
Our poem this week was Jesus Bids Us Shine by Susan Warner. Here is the first page of the Copywork for my 6yo. She decided to draw a candle burning on her paper.
Here is my ds cursive Copywork. I love his effort and enjoy seeing his improvement. He has been doing so much better just getting the copy work completed. I'm so very proud of him lately!
Continuing with the Stories of the Pilgrims, we read about Joseph and Isaac being followed and tracked by dogs. We talked about how dogs are able to follow scents. We did a science discovery and tried to follow scents with cotton balls, vanilla and peppermint oil. The kids were able to follow the scent to the water.
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We read more from the Stories of the Pilgrims and learned about a widow who lived in the pilgrim village with her children, Benjamin & Mary. The widow was very kind and the Indians adored her. She often served them food & cider. One Indian, Warmsly particularly liked the hard cider and the widow soon realized he liked it because it made him drunk. Warmsly became upset when the widow would no longer give him the hard cider he demanded. He barged into the widows house during a party the children were having.
The pilgrim children, Benjamin & Mary made a sparkler candle with a quill feather, gun powder and wax for special fun at their party. They lit it and when it went off, it exploded and frightened the Indian away.
We acted out the scene with a flashlight as recommended and while the kids were enjoying their 'fruit party', I remembered that we had real sparklers! The kids ran around the circle and then said their verse once they got back to their spot. They loved the sparklers of course! Lots of giggles with this one for sure!
Our art project was to make a sparkler candle. I will say this was a definite parent help ... must! The kids really thought this was neat after it was all finished. The kids ended up drawing the parts they wanted me to cut out and I used a knife/cutting board to cut out the pieces for them. We then placed aluminum foil behind the colored paper to make their sparkler candle shine!
Our next story was about a maid that was at a pilgrims house watching the babies while the parents went to a meeting. As the maid admired the beautiful butterflies fluttering in the summer sun she saw an Indian outside the house with a gun and she feared for their safety. She quickly hid the babies in brass pots to get them out of sight and then she ran upstairs to get a gun. The babies were crying in the pots and it made a loud, strange noise. The Indian looked into the house to find the awful screeching sound and he saw the brass pots shaking & coming towards him. He fired his gun at the pots and to his surprise it did no harm. The pots with the babies inside kept coming towards the Indian and he thought it was a terrible monster. He was frightened and ran away.
We learned that the pilgrims had great faith in God despite their trials with the Indians. They cast their cares and worries on God and knew he would keep them safe. 1Peter 5:7
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We talked about the stages of a butterfly and are looking forward to ordering our baby monarchs soon! In the meantime, we cut out tissue paper butterflies and hid them around the room. The children had to hunt and find them as they were camoflauged and disguised by their surroundings. Of course, they hid them many times and searched for them! They learned that it was harder to see the butterflies that were on the same color object and easier to find them when they were on something of contrasting color.
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We finished reading the Emerging Reader level 4 First Flight; The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers. I think both kids are reading at this level well and have enjoyed the book. I honestly would love to take a weekend trip to Kitty Hawk area to spike the kids interest and since my hubby is a pilot. Any one else visit or enjoy a field trip to the area?
We are still working on Encyclopedia Brown in the mystery genre. The kids are really enjoy helping to solve each of the mini mysteries!
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We talked about and located the next few states Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado & Connecticut!
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The kiddos worked their spelling lists & flash cards with these awesome play doh letters!
It definitely makes studying for our spelling tests less painful with play doh! ;)
Although, we started the week at the park enjoying the beautiful sunshine, we finished it off playing in the snow! Gotta love Virginia weather!
We did have a homeschool snow day and it was great motivation to get them moving on their school work so they could get back outside in the snow! We were fortunate enough to spend the day sledding with friends. It was super cold and we did have to take a few breaks to warm up with some hot chocolate but, we all had so much fun!
I hope you are staying warm, healthy and enjoying HoD as much as we are. You can also follow our daily homeschooling journey by liking our new Facebook page:
Enjoy your weekend!
Be blessed!
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