Bigger Hearts for His Glory- Unit 18

We started out the week slowly.... with coffee in hand of course!  LOL! 

Thank God that our character trait was optimism!  

We tried extra hard to find the good in everything all week long.  

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Our verse this week was Proverbs 19:21.  'Many are the plans in a mans heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.'

We finished learning about the Wilderness Trail that Daniel Boone and his men carved out for new settlers to travel west of the Applachian Mountains. 

We learned about rural and urban areas. 

We played a quick game with flash cards.

 I named items and the kids showed me if it was urban or rural. Pigs, taxis, farms, creeks, and skyscrapers. 

Our new vocabulary words from our reading were quicksilver, ferrule, and vessel. 

The kids were fascinated to learn about quicksilver.  We watched a quick YouTube video on Mercury.  You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eYa0K3EA0

We learned about Robert Fulton aka Quicksilver Bob. As a young boy, he was optimistic about his inventions.  He was a good artist and made drawings for gun makers.  We read about his experiment in making a Roman candle to shoot sparks into the air on the 4th of July.  

We skipped the painting today and the  kids watched a short tutorial on how to draw fireworks.  You can find it here:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zmxW81slU

They outlined in black sharpie dotted lines and colored. I think they turned out great. 

It was simple and fun! 

We learned that Robert Fulton invented a paddle wheel for his flatboat as a child and used it later on the steamboat. 

We read about James Watt and how he became the real inventor of the first steam engine. 

John Fitch made his engine drive a number of oars to paddle the boat forward.  His engine was feeble and the boat ran slowly. 

Robert Fulton perfected the steamboat with the Clermont and it became well known traveling from New York to Albany. 

We watched a short YouTube video here that the kids were able to understand the reading a bit more. You can find it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkB47kYtMJI

In Poetry, we copied the poem 'The Harbor'.  We learned about onomatopoeias and circled them on our poem! 

'The Harbor' by Olive Miller

In Science, we learned about green plants and funguses. 

The kids drew several samples of each. 

We learned God made them to grow differently and they have different purposes.  We also learned there are many different kinds of animals who depend on the woods to survive. 

We learned that insects have compound eyes and see many images when we only see one.  We experimented with taping straws together and looking through to see what multiple lenses look like.  The kids thought it was neat! 

My little one is acing her math quizzes and blazing through her 2nd grade workbooks.  So proud of how well she is doing in math. 

In Bible this week, we read from Matthew 14:22-33  We learned that Peter needed to be optimisic  to walk out on the water to Jesus.  He took his eyes away and became distracted and lost faith in God.  He began to sink.  He cried out, "Lord, save me!"  We need to be optimistic about our plans, but when our plans fail we should turn to Jesus. 

Sometimes it's hard to see the big picture and easy to get discouraged.  But, we can be optimistic knowing that Gods purpose always prevails.

We started Jesus Calling as our daily devotional.  Looking forward to growing our family closer to God in 2015. 

Wishing you a happy new year! 

See you next week!