Yesterday, we went to a nearby Apple Orchard/ Pumpkin Patch. We had fun- more fun than I had anticipated. I've gotten into "picture thing" where I just want to take pictures and enhance them(- I guess that's the word). I don't know if this will stick or if it's a passing phase, but I'm enjoying myself either way. Any way, I saw a lot of good photo opportunities and snapped away.
This week my son needed to learn to skip count by 3's. He remembered the song, "Three is the Magic Number" from off of School House Rock video. It was perfect! We have been singing the song since then. I went to Amazon and ordered the SHR DVD (which we are waiting to arrive), then I thought to check it out on youtube.com. And they had quite a few of the songs! All of the number songs, I put on the right hand side of my blog for easy access. At first, I didn't understand WHY they had taken these off of t.v.???!!! I mean, they were excellent learning tools! But, then I listened to some of the words and there are a lot of Biblical refernces in the songs- WOW. Our country has fallen to the point where they don't mind cursing and nudity, but they would have a fit if School House Rock were to play on television again.
When we were at the park on Monday, my daughter sees something on a bench- Daughter: "Oh cool, it's a cricket and it's rubbing it's legs together!" We all look. My Mom & I: "That's not a cricket" Me: "What is that?" My daughter, 11 year old son and 6 year old: "Yeah, what is that?" Me: "I don't know what THAT is!" My four year old: "It's a BUG!" ...and they doubt us homeschoolers!!!
This weekend while putting my lesson plans together, I realized we were going to cover the water cycle. I made plans, found a little video online (click here to see) and had everything ready to go. I got up this morning and exercised- I just started back today. I thought I should get some water from the pantry and then it hit me (or should I say, the Lord plucked me upside my head) that the place I go to get my water is a local spring. I forgot they had signs around the spring explaining how it works. Today was a nice day so that was our field trip. They had a nice walking trail and I took pictures. Thankfully, my mom was with me and I got a pretty good picture of her with the kids on the bridge....
This week’s assignment is to share a piece of your past. Our blogs are important pieces for our future generations, but when most of us were growing up, blogging wasn’t around. I hope that this assignment will help you to share your past on your blogs. Each piece of our childhood years played an important part in who we are today. The assignment is to post a baby picture & Share a special scripture that reminds you of your past. Okay, here is mine. I am about 2 months old...
The first verse I can remeber memorizing was from Mark 11:22 "...have faith in God." This verse still helps me today. So all that said..."Having obtained help from God, I continue unto this day..." Acts 26:22
This week we completed our Bible and books of the Bible Lapbook. This took a lot of prayer and thought when I was designing it. I KNOW it was the Lord who helped me with this-He helps me in every way, but this one was not one I took lightly. After all, we were doing a lapbook on the GREATEST BOOK. The lesson plan called for us to study the Bible- not just what's in it, but the Bible itself. I was pleased to learn that my two older children had already covered the divisions of the Bible in Sunday School (my husband and my pastor's wife are their teachers-so my husband is proud.
My 6 year old's lapbook is different from my 11 &13 year old's. Because I wanted my 6 year old to understand on his level, we used "Old Testament City' & "New Testament City" (this part was suggested in our curriculum, but with ancient houses that could be used in on a wall or a spread out on the floor). Of course, the cities were located in the state of the Bible. There were various streets- Pentateuch (Law) Avenue, History Lane, Poetry Circle, Major Prophets Way and Minor Prophets Road, just to name a few. Each division of the books are different colors. My son was really excited, and on his own, he drew little people to visit each house and just in case they were tired, he made them a car also.
For my older two children, we used legal size folders and I made small booklets in the same colors of my 6 year old's. They wrote the names of the books on the outside and put them in the correct divisions.
After doing the Dino Lapbook with Live & Learn press, I gleaned a lot of ideas from them- as far as using different folds for the mini books.
There were some words I wanted my children to learn, so we began with vocabulary: inspiration, history, translation, holy, epistles, Pentateuch...ect. The kids colored a map of the three continents where the Bible was written. The Christian History Institute for Kids was very useful and informative- it gave us just the amount of info we needed when we studied about William Tyndale and King James. Also, this site( MSSS Bible Lesson) was helpful when looking for worksheets and childrens kind of Bible stuff. To drive home about how difficult it was to translate the Bible from one language to another, we used a name generator- this one did the job and had all three Bible languages. Which we used to make the children's names in the three languages. It was interesting to see their names this way... I actually did my own name! For the Big Bible: http://www.raindrop.org/rugrat/fun/cbible.gif To my surprise, when I read the resource section of our curriculum, there was a tic-tac-toe game! So I made a board and used some clipart to make markers. In order for the children to be able to put a marker on the board, they had to correctly answer a question, such as: Name the 5 books of Law, how many books are in the Minor Prophets division...ect. Also, on the back are a few pics of our trip to the Holy Land Experience. One is of my children in front of a replica of the Cave of the Qumran and the other is of the Scriptorium- it shows how the Word of God came to be with us, today. When my mom went to Israel last year, she brought back for me a small replica of the clay pots that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in. I made a copy of the scroll (which contained Isaiah 61:1) and had the children copy the verse on the back in English. Then, I rolled it up and put a rubber band around around. I did something different with the pocket to hold it. I basically folded the sides and bottoms of the paper like a little accordion. That way I was able to store the scroll without it getting smashed. Today, to go along with the lesson, we began the process of making papyrus paper. I plan to post pics as I am able to- it should take about a week or two before we will be finshed with it. Finally, here are the pics...enjoy! To see the title of the pics or to pause the slide show, just put your mouse over the pic.
The Assignment this week it to use your Blog Name (or your own pen/real name) and create signs. There are two ways to do this and you can do one or both ways.
Visit Image Chef (www.ImageChef.com) and create some free cute signs. The easiest way to explain this is follow the templates — choose, customize (type in name), and then Preview. Once you see the design, right click and SAVE to your computer. AND/OR you can be really creative and create your own signs, take digital pictures and share them. (Examples….Refrigerator Magnets, Shaving Cream, Frosting, etc.)
2. Share a special verse!
After working on the signs, I decided to just join #1 & #2 together by including my verse in my sign- as you can see, one verse just wouldn't do for this week...
My favorite sign is the header of my blog- The background pic was already on there and I just added my children and my verse...
This week’s assignment is to share a piece of your past. Our blogs are important pieces for our future generations, but when most of us were growing up, blogging wasn’t around. I hope that this assignment will help you to share your past on your blogs. Each piece of our childhood years played an important part in who we are today. The assignment is to post a baby picture & Share a special scripture that reminds you of your past.
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