Week 1: Beginning our Adventures in My Father's World

We began our Adventures in My Father's World. this week.  It includes Bible, History, Science, Art, and Music.

Bible

This year we will be studying the names of Jesus, so we began with learning that names have meanings and what our names mean.  I wrote a letter to each of them explaining how Josh and I chose their names and what their names mean to us.  The kids also made name bracelets with letter beads to help them remember that God knows them and they are special to Him!

We also began using Grapevine Studies which is a beginner's overview of the New Testament.  I'm reading to them directly from the Bible instead of reading Bible stories, which is so exciting and important!

History

In History this week we studied the Pledge of Allegiance and what it means.  We read I Pledge Allegiance by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson which explains the pledge word by word.  The kids made American flags by tearing paper.  We also enjoyed a red jello, white cool whip, and blue sprinkle treat!

EM learned about Vikings and Leif Ericsson who sailed to North America.  She enjoyed learning about the Viking culture from the books we read:  Life and Times in The Viking World (lots of neat pictures) and The Vikings.  She made Viking jewelry out of clay and colored Viking Paper Dolls.  We also watched How to Train Your Dragon and Lyle the Kindly Viking, a Veggie Tales movie!

Science

Both big kids were very excited to start our Science class this week after eyeing the books all summer long!  We have so many fun hands-on experiments to look forward to!  This week we learned what Science means and what Scientists do.  We even got to do our first experiment to learn how salt effects floating objects.

Math

JR continues learning about Triangles this week and began patterns.  EM's book still seems to be reviewing what she learned in Kindergarten.  We should be digging into new material soon.

Color patterns using M&M's

Reading

JR learned about the letters C and D.  His favorite book this week was Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion.  (We read that one lots!)

EM reviewed phonograms, segmenting words, vowels and consonants.  She can read Beth's Job by Carole Roberts all by herself!

Art

We're going on a family trip to County Line Apple Orchard this weekend so we made apple stamp T-shirts!

I'm looking forward to a fabulous Labor Day weekend and learning about Christopher Columbus next week!

Added for pure cute factor.