MFW ECC Highlights: Week 3

 

 Welcome to our “Week 3 in Review” with Exploring Countries and Cultures using My Father’s World.

 

 

Geography Focus this week:

Continent: North America

Country:  The United States of America

Names of the 50 states

The flag – stars and stripes

Where do we live on the globe?

Our country’s facts and landmarks

Children around the U.S.A.

Bible Focus this week:

• Missionary: Dwight L. Moody – from shoe salesman to sharing the gospel of Jesus
• Character traits: Strength, Boldness and Repentance
• Missionary kids in the US
• Memory verse: John 3:16

Science Focus this week:

• Forests: coniferous and deciduous forests
• What kind of animals live in the forest ?
• Animal lapbooks and 3D woodland animals
• Way Cool Science Biotrackers DVD
• Layers of the forest

I will be posting our Nature Walk about trees soon!

The Geography Vocabulary notebook displays a forest animal, the raccoon.   My daughter used the Draw Write Now book for instructions on how to draw the it.

The girls colored 3D forests and their animals.  I got them from a Rod and Staff  Inside and Outside workbook.

my favorite resource this week:

~ a 30 minute video called Way Cool Science: Biotrackers

It is an overview of the habitats and their animals, within each continent. 

This DVD is very worth tracking down from the library.

 

Animal Focus this week:

I let the girls pick 2 animals from each continent to study.  They get to put a lapbook together in their binders.  Most of my resources are from Homeschool Share and the library.

M6 picked a porcupine but instead I thought she picked a hedgehog.  So I got all the books and lapbook mini folders cut out and wahhhh-lahhhhh ~ hedge hogs do NOT come from North America (shhh but we did it anyway).

ECC Co-op Kids Art: Sand Paint

Read-aloud this week:                

More resources we enjoyed this week:

Check what other’s are doing in My Father’s World – drop by 2 Ladybugs And A Lizard.