Sunday, October 24, 2010

MFW Adventures: Wrap-Up for Week 10

After a week off visiting with Grandma, the girls are back into the fun of Adventures with My Father’s World!

This week’s summary:  Jesus the Giver of Living Water, The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and the Revolutionary War.

Bible:  The memory verse is from John 7:37. .. “if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” 

Science:  The girls did various projects with water.  They put a tsp of water on various items (coffee filter, tracing paper, plastic, wash cloth) to determine absorption.  They learned that items with holes/pores absorbed more liquid.

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Then we lined an empty jar with a napkin, tissue, wash cloth and topped it with a marble.  It took just one tsp of water on the tissue for the marble to sink.  The wash cloth actually raised up as it absorbed the water!

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Then we lined a shallow dish with coffee filter strips, colored each with a large dot using a marker, then dropped on a tsp or two of water.  The marker colors separated … somewhat… we could see the red separate to orange and yellow shades.  We reviewed the color wheel too.

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History:  We read the The Fourth of July Story and Red, White and Blue.  Both are great books with nice illustrations.  I liked these two books and our Book Basket items for my girls age group.

Book Basket favorites:

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We added to our Timeline: Declaration of Independence and US becomes a country – 1776.

Read about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, The Revolutionary War, Liberty Bell, Paul Revere, the 13 Colonies and the original American Flag. … wow was that a lot of history this week!  It was a great learning experience for our family too.

Now for more fun!

Our Adventures co-op kids made Hasty Pudding and a Quill Pen and Berry Ink.

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A few smiles for more Hasty Pudding… a little doctored-up with honey!

OHC Check out our Outdoor Hour Challenge #4: Apple Study here.  This is a great weekly Nature Study hosted by Barb at Handbook of Nature Study Blog.

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Check out what other’s did this past week at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschooler Weekly Wrap-Up here!

Drop back soon for more MFW Adventures,

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Autumn 2010 OHC #4: Apples

“The apple is a nutritious fruit, wholesome and easily digested.  The varieties of apple differ in shape, size, color, texture, and flavor.” Handbook of Nature Study, pg 669.

Boy did we have a nice variety of apples to compare and contrast this week!  The girls picked out about 13 varieties of apples from our local grocery store. 

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A7 choose to compare the Rome and the Granny Smith apples.

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IMG_0952  A7 liked the Rome apple better than the Granny Smith. 

Rome: sweet, red, solid, pink inside when cut, and a great shape

Granny Smith:  big, green, tart, and it doesn’t brown when cut

 

 

M5 compared the McIntosh and the Braeburn apple.  She preferred the Braeburn because it was big, red w/green & yellow, crisp and tart-sweet.  The McIntosh was little, red w/yellow, and soft.

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The additional resources Barb provided were a great addition to our Apple Study.   The e-book is available on the Handbook of Nature Study blog for only $8.95.  Check out what other’s have done with their Apple Study here.

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What did I learn from this fun Apple Study?  That there are more great apples available to eat than just the GALA apple! Enjoy the harvest!

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Autumn 2010 OHC #3: Mammal Study

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The Outdoor Hour Challenge #3 was a mammal study: compare the horse and the dog. 

The girls looked at horses at the county Fair and a local historical farm.

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  • Toes – the horse has one
  • Neck – long to graze
  • Legs – long for running – right from birth
  • Hair or coats – mane and tail keep biting flies away
  • Eye placement – on the side of their head to view all around
  • Tails – keep away biting flies

 

 

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My youngest daughter’s paint pony.  She is 5.

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We compared the horse to our 3 dachshunds.

See what others learned during their Outdoor Hour Challenge here.

Drop by soon to check out our Apple study.

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Wordless Wednesday – Marathon Success

This is a Wordless Wednesday post because words can NOT express the priceless moments in the following photos of ..

My daddy and “E”

IMG_0904 “E”, my daddy and little sister ~ she’s acting like she’s runnin’ huh? – NOT!  This is mile 9.

 

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Heading up a hill at mile 18.5!

 

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 I would have been curled up on the side of the road 20 miles ago, but they’re not!  A moment at mile 22.

 

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They rounded the corner to the finish line!

 

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Thank goodness the finish line was down hill!

 

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This photo leaves me speechless…what an unbelievable moment!  .. can you grab me a tissue.

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Monday, October 11, 2010

“Little House” Happenings: Field Trip

Our “Little House” co-op went on a field trip this past week to a local historical farm.  The farm is set up in the 1880’s time period for families to experience life over 100 years ago.

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We visited the hens..

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Played on the stilts and …

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… shot rifles.

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Climbed on fences among vines and …

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… in the barn.

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We viewed food storage in pioneer times.

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We ground the corn and …

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… and more corn!

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We even got yelled at for climbing way up here!

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We visited the farm animals and…

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… with a toddler or two or three!

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I took a piece of farm life home with me too!

Hope you enjoyed your visit as much as we did.

Drop by this weekend for more of what’s going on in our

“Little House” Happenings co-op!

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