New Volume

Wow, I didn't realize how long it had been since I last posted!

We are starting a new Volume with our Weaver Curriculum. I love Weaver! It is all 100% Bible based and my children seem to enjoy it. In Volumes 1 & 2, we covered the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. With this new Volume we will cover Joshua, Judges and Ruth.

Pray for us!

The 14 Days of Homeschool

Someone shared this with me and I thought it would be nice to post:

The 14 days of Homeschooling

The 14 days of Homeschooling (sung to The 12 Days of Christmas)

On the first day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Can you homeschool legally?”

On the second day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the third day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the fourth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the fifth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “YOU ARE SO STRANGE! What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the sixth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “How long will you homeschool, YOU ARE S0 STRANGE, what about P.E. , do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the seventh day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?”

On the eighth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Why do you do this, look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, what about P.E. do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?”

On the ninth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “They’ll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E. do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?”

On the tenth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “What about graduation, they’ll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the eleventh day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “I could never do that, what about graduation, they’ll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the twelfth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “Can they go to college, I could never do that, what about graduation, they’ll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they’re missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?”

On the thirteenth day of homeschool I thoughtfully replied: “They Can go to college, yes you can do this, they can have graduation, we don’t like the prom, we do it cuz we like it, they are missing nothing, we’ll homeschool forever, WE ARE NOT STRANGE!, We give them P.E., and we give them tests, they are socialized, AND WE HOMESCHOOL LEGALLY!

On the fourteenth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, “How can I get started, why didn’t you tell me, where do I buy curriculum, when is the next conference, WILL PEOPLE THINK WE’RE STRANGE? I think we can do this, if you will help us, we’ll join a sports team, and we’ll homeschool legally.

Declaration of Independence

Today we watched, "Liberty's Kids" and is helping us to conclude this last chapter of Volume 2, so we can move on to Volume 3 of Weaver in January. One more week and we'll be finished. Here's some pics of the kids looking at our Declaration of Independence from Williamsburg. The kids later attempted to write with quill pens. They did pretty good. 

If you plan to teach about the Revolutionary War, I would highly suggest "Liberty's Kids" videos. I was able to purchase them from Amazon for a total of $11-that's including shipping. One was only $1.99! The kids love them and my three year old asked to watch it again!

 

 

Sounding the Shofar

Today, our Bible Lesson wasabout the sounding of the shofar: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

(Numbers 10:3)

And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

(Numbers 10:4)

And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

(Numbers 10:5)

When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

(Numbers 10:6)

When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

(Numbers 10:7)

But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

(Numbers 10:8)

And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.

(Numbers 10:9)

And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

(Numbers 10:10)

 

To hear the sounding of a shofar:

http://www.holidays.net/highholydays/shofar.htm

 

    

    

 

 

  

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

 

(Numbers 10:1)

(Numbers 10:2)

High Priests

Here are the kids dressed as a High Priest of Israel. A friend at church made it from felt. She did a great job!

 

 

 

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