Happy Hearts

I’m just now getting around to blog this.  We did “C” the week right after “B”, and then we went out of town and just now came home.

Things we did every day:

Bible-Colossians 3:20

T1’s spelling/vocab words-cancer, censor, chord, cunning, curt

H’s spelling/vocab words-care, cent, chip, cod

Sign language for the letter “C“

Songs-Cookie Man, Cute Cathy’s Cookie Carrot Cake, Come Thou Fount

Country-China

Monday- Read the Bible stories of the coin in the fish’s mouth and the chariot of fire.  Found “C” on the keyboard.  Reviewed the calender.  Made a carrot craft.  Played Simon Says while crawling.  Played Chutes and Ladders.

Tuesday-Read about the Bible story of the Isrealites crossing the Red Sea.  Read a book about cougars.  Did worksheets.  Practiced counting by 5’s, 10’s, 100’s, and 1,000’s.  Made cougar paw prints and I set up a treasure hunt with them, and they had to follow the tracks to the prize.  Made the Chinese flag with markers.  Played Creator (Lego) board game.  T1 and H dressed up as catman and catlady.  We made chocolate chip cookies for a snack.  At dinnertime we made a Chinese recipe: Crab rangoons.  They turned out awesome.  They took forever to make though. 

Wednesday- Cooked pancakes for breakfast.  Colored with crayons. 

Thursday-Made cards for papaw’s retirement party.  Learned about what a carpenter does. 

We left Thursday morning to go to Michigan.  A came home after the weekend, and the kids and I stayed until today. 

A’s doing physics experiments with them every day this week from a kit I picked up while we were gone.  

Next week we will be moving on to D.

Things we did every day:

Bible-Proverbs 18:12

T1’s spelling/vocab words: baffle, benign, bowels, burden

H’’s spelling/vocab words: bale, best, brook

Sign language for “b“

Songs:  “Do You Know the Bongo Man”, BINGO, Blessed Assurance

Bible story: Balaam and the ass

Country: Brazil

Animal- Boas

Monday- Made Brazil’s flag out of legos.  Made a birthday cake.  Played catch with a ball.

Tuesaday- Drew boas.  Built castles and houses out of sand.

Wednesday- Learned about what a beautician does, and pretended to be one.  Made boats out of legos, and sailed them on a big “B” on the floor.  Played the Before math game.  Made a recipe from Brazil-Black Bean Feijoda.  It was really good.

Thursday-Saturday- We went camping.  We fished for Bluegill, went to the beach, built a fire, found bugs, bedded down in a tent, etc.   When we got home, we made Banana bread with our leftover mushy old bananas.  Their favorite part was squishing the bananas,  of course.

We started doing the Letter of the Week! 

Things we did every day:

Bible- I Corinthians 13:13

T1’s spelling/vocab words- argue, abate, aloft

H’s spelling/voacb words- ant, axe

Sign language for the letter “A”

Songs- Alligator song, A Hunting We Will Go, A Tisket A Tasket

Country- Argentina

Monday- Walked, ran, skipped, and hopped on a giant “A” on the floor.  Made ant antennae headbands, went on an “A” hunt, did a worksheet.

Tuesday- Read the story of Abraham and Isaac.  Painted the flag of Argentina.  Read about the angler fish and looked at pictures online.  Made artichoke dip.  Trace the letter “a” in sugar with fingers.  Learned where “a” was on the keyboard.  Did a worksheet.

Wednesday- Read about the anhinga bird.  Went to the beach.

Thursday- Did apple stamping art. 

Friday- Made animal masks.  Drew the letter “a” in shaving cream.  Made Chipas, bread recipe from Argentina.  A and I thought it was nasty, but the kids liked it.