Bigger Hearts for His Glory - Unit 11

Character Trait of the Week

This week we learned about perseverance. Our verse was Proverbs 20:22. 

Unit 11 Vocabulary

Our vocabulary words this week were Declaration of Independence, gentleman, and tavern.  Love the sentences!  Guess we talked a bit about Thomas Jefferson this week too!!  :)

We learned about the French man,  Anthony Benezet.  He fled France with his family at a young age in search of religious freedom in North America.    He became a Quaker. He later was an advocate in Philadelphia for equal rights and an end to slavery. He was a wonderful teacher. He instructed his students like no other in his time with love and kindness.  We watched a great YouTube video about his life to learn more about him and I had the children take notes. You can watch the video here too:  Anthony Benezet Video

In geography, we talked about people in America and how they originated from all different parts of the world. We wrote a letter to our great grandparents to see if we could find out where our family came from.  The kids are sure anxious for a response! 

My ds handwriting has improved so much and is a joy to read!

We read about slavery and how slaves were purchased and used for slave trade. This was a sensitive subject  that opened my eyes to children's innocence & naivety.  They asked a lot of questions and I answered the best I could.  The children were all very compassionate as we read about the 6 yo, Venture Smith, who was bought 3 times and made to come to the new land.   Venture Smith was persevered and eventually did become a free man. We all agreed that it was an unfair time in our history and are thankful for the progression of equal rights.

Declaration of Independence

We continued learning about Thomas Jefferson had a lot to do with the movement to abolish slavery and we learned that he was an intelligent man and avid reader. He desired to know as much as he could. He wrote the Declaration of Independence and believed that all men were equal. 

In poetry, we read and copied a poem called, Hold On! The kids drew pictures after we interpreted.  

Wood Thrush Bird

We continued reading our book, Audubon. The kids are enjoying all the new information about birds.  

We used our Science journal note booking pages to draw the different types of feathers that we learned... flight feather, body feather, & down feather.  There is somehow a random crazy pic of a huge acorn. I don't know where that came from.  LOL...  

We learned about the Wood Thrush bird and listened to its calls that sound like a flute song. 

We took a trip to Birds Unlimited and a peek in their bird book to get more information. We got some seed to make a feeder in the backyard and bird butter to rub on the trees. 

I found this coloring sheet on the web and the kids enjoyed coloring a picture of their wood thrush bird.  I thought they turned out great! Here is a link for the quick printable coloring page freebie:  http://www.supercoloring.com/pages/wood-thrush-bird/

In Science, we learned about the climate zones on our globe. Temperate zones have the 4 seasons, polar zones are cold all the time, and tropical zones are hot all the time. We moved our "Daniel Boone Man" around the globe to different locations and the kids identified the zone he was located. 

We have officially converted fully to Christian Light Education for math. This has been such a better fit for us and we love the workbook style lessons. All 3 kids are excelling in math. Amazing difference! 

This week we also had some friends from a Kentucky elementary school mail us their flat Stanley. The kids think this is so neat and we will be sending ours back soon! 

It's been another great week homeschooling!

See you next week!! 

Be blessed!