I am excited!

I have a new camara and I finally

 have learned how to put pics on here!

My mom just got back from Israel and bought me a treasure

 I asked for- a shofar!

I love it, now if I can just learn how to blow it...I am so happy!

                         

Tabernacle/High Priest Lapbook

This is why I haven't had the opportunity to blog-we have been working hard on this last chapter of Volume 2 of Weaver. I plan to start Volume 3 in January.

 

Here is a email I sent out to some groups:

 

Wow, after about 6 weeks we have finally finished our Tabernacle/High Priest and Ten Commandments Lap books. We worked sooooooo hard. I didn't have enough room in the house to build the Tabernacle suggested in Weaver, so we did a lap book instead, which was a nice alternative, although I look forward to building it the next time around.

 

Pics of both lap books are in the Pictures section.

 

We used two legal size file folders so we would have enough room to put the furniture of the Tabernacle inside. I spray painted the outsides with gold paint, then went back over them again with glitter paint.

I used to do the same lap book for each of my children, just to get into it and adjust, but starting with the Tabernacle Lap book, I based the lap book on their ages. My kindergartner's lap book has pop up furniture- which he really loved. I thought it would be hard to make, but it wasn't! My 5th grader's furniture covered what each piece of furniture represented and my 6th grader's furniture covered the typology of Jesus with New Testament Scriptures.

On top of the Holy and Most Holy place, we glued three types of fabric to illustrate the three coverings on the Tabernacle. The last layer is beautiful gold material, although in the Bible it is red, blue and purple. (I did not find those colors in Walmart :)) My point was to show the children that on the outside the Tabernacle looked very ugly, but on the side it was beautiful, just like the church. From a worldly perspective, Christianity looks dull and boring, but once inside, it is the total opposite. In front of the Ark of the Covenant, I braided together red, blue and purple cross stitching floss to represent the veil.

Inside the next section is the High Priest Section. On the first flap, it is a picture of the Robe. My children colored the picture from the Resource section. In the middle is the Breastplate with the names of twelve tribes, decorated with little gems from Walmart. The Urim and Thummin are inside the Breastplate. On the last flap are pictures of little High Priest : ) A friend of mine loaned me the outfit she made from felt.

I made a game up -kinda. I named it "The Golden Calf". Basically it's played like the game Old Maid. Just like you don't want to be last one left with Old Maid, with our game, you don't want to be left with Golden Calf. Also, the cards can be played with as a matching memory game. I copied and pasted pictures from a website  (http://home.earthlink.net/~theoson/Index.html) and re-sized them in Print Master, then covered them with sheet lamination.

For archives sake I am going to put the websites that were used:

 

 For the Tabernacle Lapbook:

 

 High Priest on Cover with the Ark of the Covenant:

 http://www.wesleyan.org/Media/MarketingManager/22_The_Tabernacle_Color_2.gif

 

Furniture of the Tabernacle:

http://sewhttkr.home.comcast.net/bibleWS/bibleWS/30_tabernacle.htm

 

Ark of the Covenant on Cover:

http://www.mapmasterz.com/artsamples.html

 

For the Ten Commandments: We used pics so my 5 year old could memorize, since he is learning to read.

http://gardenofpraise.com/mempeg2.htm

 

   

 

 

    

 

    

 

 

I am so overdue for a post!

We have been so busy homeschool wise! We have been on more field trips and doing a lot of experiments. Here's some pics:

 

Kids in Williamsburg, VA

 

 

Williamsburg part 2

I'm back- finally! Our trip to Williamsburg was sooo much fun. The heat index was 100 but we made the best of it and had a lot of water and plenty of free refills. Since Williamsburg is only about an hour and half away from where my in-laws live, we decided to go while on vacation in Virginia. I didn't expect so many people to be there, but it was still nice. My oldest son, who is my hands on learner, really got into it.

I went to the site online before we left and I knew the first thing I wanted to buy were the colonial hats for my sons. I never said anything to them about it. When ds saw the hats he said, "Mommy, can you pllleeeaaasssseee buy us a hat?" I smiled and bought three. You can see ds & ds enjoyed theirs. My daughter and I decided that we would make our hats when we returned home as part of home ec. The boys also talked me into buying them small wooden muskets. They tried to get the long guns, but I had to consider my sanity. I could see them once we got home- either hitting each other with them or knocking something over in the house. But they were content with what I got them.

We ate at Chowning's Tavern for lunch. Pretty good food. We mainly stayed on the Duke of Glouster Street. After being in the heat, we were so glad that the buildings were air conditioned. We also walked Nicholson Street. When they say you can't see it all in one day- they really meant it.

Williamsburg

Well- we finally made it to Colonial Williamsburg and loved every minute of it!

It was extremely educational. My oldest son kept telling me thank you the entire time we were there! My husband was excited and would often leave me behind.

I will update more and tell all tomorrow.

Jamestown

Wow! I hadn't realizd how long it had been since I had last written something.

After decorating at a wedding for a dear friend of mine and celebrating my 14th wedding anniversary, the time really did fly.

Later on this week, we will be taking a mini vacation to Jamestown and possibly Williamsburg, Virginia. Thankfully its an hour away from the area my husband grew up in and my in-laws are still there. I am very excited because this is an answered prayer. Last year, I read through our curriculum and saw that we would be covering Colonial America. I prayed and told the Lord I really would love to be able to take my family on a mini vacation. I didn't know where the money would come from, but the desire never decreased. Amazingly, over the last couple of months, my small business of decorating has picked up, and I now have a enough money for our little vacation- I can even buy trinkets and stay in a hotel over night!!!

"Behold, I am the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?"

I can answer and say, NOOOOO! There is nothing to hard for the Lord!