MFW Creation to the Greeks: Week 2

 

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Vocabulary:

My daughter is learning the Greek roots from English from the Roots Up!  Aunt Kattie, from 2 Ladybugs and a Lizard helped her create a notebook ~ check out her blog for more details. 

  She has the girls write the meaning and illustrate it!  SOOooo cute!

Bible and History:

This week’s Bible lesson was in Genesis 2 – 7.  We learned about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah’s Ark.  The girls completed their timeline figures. 

I pulled together some memory verses for our school year.  I have the girls use them for their handwriting / illustration lessons.

Science:

We are reading through Dinosaurs of Eden. 

Aunt Kattie is extending the lesson by having the girls complete a research project on dinosaurs.  We are making dinosaur eggs with Paper Mache. Soon our ‘baby dinosaurs’ will hatch after the kids go on their ‘hunt’ !

She is going to have the kids make fossils.  Tune back for more details and pictures.

Check out the resources for our Dinosaur project and research report at The Crafty Classroom blog.

 Family fun:

My new niece ~ Kynlee

MFW Creation to the Greeks: Week 1

 

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History and Bible:

We are studying Creation through the Greeks this year!  This is our timeline:

 

 We read through Genesis and learned about the Days of Creation.

Science:

 We are adding Considering God’s Creation to our Science studies this year. 

This program has a great selection of science topics using a hands-on lapbook approach my kids LOVE !  We do science twice a week.

 

MFW Co-op:

Arrows Academy Homeschool Co-op

We are using MFW Creation to the Greeks as our co-op’s core curriculum.  We have selected Homeschool in the Woods Composer studies and Harmony Art Mom ~ Ancient Art and Composer studies to our lessons this year.  Plus we have added two more families to our group.  There are now 14 school age students and 5 preK kids!  It’s going to be a super busy and fun school year!

This week we celebrated the Sabbath meal. 

The co-op kids designed a challah covering and a floating candle for their feast.  I stitched a fabric piece about 10”x10” for each of the kids.  They used embellishments, fabric, ribbon, felt, fabric markers and glitter to decorate their covering.  Each family made Challah bread in advance to share during our feast.  

Each of our families brought a piece of the Sabbath meal to co-op.

The kids shared the meaning of each food item in the Sabbath meal amongst the group!

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MFW ECC Highlights: Australia wk 31-32

 

Wow…. it’s been more than a month since I have entered the blog world.  We wrapped up our school year early and jumped into spring gardening, field trips and family fun!

Recap of our week studying Australia using ECC ~ My Father’s World curriculum:

 

 

Highlights from our Australia studies:

• We learned about Uluru – Ayers Rock
• Studied Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials
• Watched shows about The Great Barrier Reef and its life
• Read about the Australian culture, people and land
• Made a boomerang

 

Family Fun and Field trips:

We celebrated Easter and daddy’s health!

 Our MFW Co-op had an Easter Hunt and outdoor fun!

We learned about fish and set up a 30 gallon tank!  Our first goldfish, Marshmallow, got sick with ‘swim bladder’ and died today,.. bummer!

 The girls celebrated new life with Spring Chicks!

Happy Spring!

MFW ECC Highlights: China & Japan

 

  Welcome to “Weeks 25-28 in Review” in Exploring Countries and Cultures using My Father’s World Curriculum!

Destination CHINA and JAPAN …

Our ECC Co-op kids experience Chinese cooking at a local restaurant!

….. and a Japanese restaurant!

… our cook entertained the kids with fire and fun!

Sushi………. yum, I could eat it everyday!

The girls enjoyed a few activities during our studies of Japan from Activity Village.

Otedama bean bags

 

Kokeshi Paper Dolls

 

Goldfish Fun

 

Carp Kite Fun

 

Origami Art

As we learned about the Chinese and Japanese cultures, people groups and cooking the girls learned about ocean life!

Our favorite cultural resources:

 

Our favorite Ocean resources:

Sorry the linky was late.  I have been enjoying the spring weather outdoors!  The linky will stay open until Sunday night (3/25)!

MFW ECC Highlights: India–wks 23-24

 

 Welcome to “Weeks 23 –24 in Review” in Exploring Countries and Cultures using My Father’s World !

 

Welcome to our studies of India !

• We prayed for the Indian culture
• Learned about the people of India, their land and food
• We learned about the Taj Mahal
• Our science biome: Mountains and it’s layers
• We started to build a volcano in co-op
• Reading through the book of Matthew 19-20

As we read through the POE lesson on Mountains, the girls and I created the different layers on our white board.  We discussed what animals might live in each layer depending on the continent.

The girls enjoyed building their mountains.

Their completed Mountain project.

Our science experiment: How can frozen water crack rocks?  When water freezes, the water molecules spread apart.  The water increases in volume, pushes the rock, which causes the rock to split.  Our OJ jug was filled with water, frozen for a day ……… and it split !

We watched one of my all time favorite childhood videos: Rikki Tikki Tavi

In ECC co-op, the kids made yummy … Mango Lassi drinks.

In co-op, the kids learned how the Indian culture cut and paint tiles for buildings in great detail.  The kids decorated tiles (paper) with designs, glazed them with glitter glue, and placed them on cardstock paper.

 

Enjoy!

Kattie at 2 Ladybugs and a Lizard will be hosting next week’s linky!