Character Training - Godly Speech

As part of our Bible curriculum, J is working through the Virtue Training Bible. We try to learn about a new virtue each week but sometimes, it just isn't possible. But we are definitely enjoying it. This week's virtue was Godly Speech.

She colored her word ring page. We read the verses and discussed them.

J is putting her notebook pages together. She always looks up the definition of the virtue in the dictionary and then adds ways she can put the virtue into action.

Here are J's notebook pages for Godly Speech. If you would like to download the pages I made to go along with Godly Speech, please feel free. Hope you have a great day.

Download Godly Speech Notebook Pages HERE.

Little House on the Prairie - Week 4

We are in our fourth week of The Little House on the Prairie. We are using The Prairie Primer to help our study of these books. 

She worked on her notebook page after we read the chapters.

In the book, Pa made a door for the new cabin. J made a replica using popsicle sticks.

I found a simple model at Hobby Lobby and J made a covered wagon. It was pretty simple and it works with her popsicle stick house.

Her finished project. We added some Playmobil horses to her wagon to make it complete. She was happy with it:)

Stellaluna Unit

Kaleb is currently directing our learning in our homeschool. I take care of the basic subjects like reading and math and he informs me what he would like to learn about. So far, we have learned about alligators, bears, and ants. I have an on going list of topics that he suggests and I usually try to find a go-along book for our focus. This week he wanted to learn about bats so I core book was Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. Here are a few of the activities that Kaleb completed.

We learned about the parts of a bat and worked on a bat diagram, a free printable from Mrs. Thompson's Treasures (link below).

We discussed nocturnal and diurnal animals and made a mini book for our learning notebook. This free book came from Homeschool Share (link below).

Kaleb worked on some Batty math facts using free batty counters. This printable came from Loving Our Learning (link below).

More batty facts from Loving Our Learning (link below).

Kaleb worked on a bat color book and we practiced reading it. This was found at Crystal McGinnis (link below).

We continued our discussion of nocturnal and diurnal animals. Kaleb made a poster, sorting all of the animals.

His finished poster. He even thought that he should add the family, so he did. This free printable came from A Place Called Kindergarten (link below).

Kaleb worked on beginning and ending sounds of words. He used letter tiles. He worked on this activity all week.

We discussed some important vocabulary this week. He learned carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore. He made a mini book that came from Homeschool Share.

He practiced "at" words. I showed him how to sound them out.

He made a cute bat craft that we hung on the window. This free printable came from Funky Fresh Firsties (link below).

At the end of the week, i gave him the alphabet stampers. He finished the beginning and ending sounds worksheets.

I taught him how to draw a simple bat. This activity was found Blue Tadpole Studio (link below).

He made a bat puppet that he is extremely happy about:) This cute and simple craft came from Maple Leaf Learning (link below).

Lastly, he compared bats and birds with this Venn diagram. The book helped a lot with this activity. This free printable came from Primary Library (link below). He definitely enjoyed learning about bats. We are off to learn about owls. See You soon.

Links

A Place Called Kindergarten - has the free nocturnal/diurnal animal sort that we used for our chart.

Mrs. Thompson's Treasures - has the free bat diagram printable.

Homeschool Share - Stellaluna lap book printable.

Loving Our Learning - has the free batty math printables.

Funky Fresh Firsties - free printable Going Batty craft.

Maple Leaf Learning - free printable bat puppet template.

Crystal McGinnis - bat color words mini book printable.

Blue Tadpole Studio - has the easy to draw bat tutorial.

Primary Library - free Venn diagram to compare birds and bats, perfect for Stellaluna.

Florida History

We are moving along with our state study and this week, we learned about some tourism attractions in our state as well as baseball teams that spring train here in Florida.

She read about Disney and made a Mickey shaped book with some facts about the parks.

She added several attractions to our state map as well as the baseball spring training sites. I made a printable page with the logos of the teams and she added them to the cities.

Her Mickey book, complete with facts about the park. Her Florida lap book will definitely be super cute! She is definitely learning a lot about her home state.

Tot Tuesday

Riley is in love with the little Ikea step stool. He uses it when he can and when he shouldn't, so it isn't often that I bring it down off the top of the fridge. I brought the stool down and asked him to help me put the (non-breakable) dishes away.

He may not have put them away correctly...

but he had fun doing it:)

Sweet boy:)

Little House on the Prairie - Week 3

We are currently reading our way through The Little House book series while using The Prairie Primer as our guide. We are in our third week of The Little House on the Prairie. We ended up with another jammie day as well as a looming hurricane to get our school work done. No hurricane days for us:)

Being stuck inside because of a ton of rain seemed to be a good time to start this little house quilt block that I found from Wee Folks (link below). It is small enough to finish in a day or two and it had a free printable template, which I love.

J picked the fabrics that she wanted to use from my fabric stash (thanks to my mother:). We traced the pieces on the wonder under and irons them onto the block.  She then sewed around the pieces using her machine. She loves her machine and trying to get her to hand sew is difficult.

Because she wanted to use her machine, she did the quick quilting of her block. This is her cabin block sewn on the machine. It turned out cute.

I decided to make my own cabin quilt as well. Mine os on the left. I finished everything except the binding.

The next project was thanks to her dad. I asked him to help her make a popsicle stick little house for J's peg people that she and her sister painted. I figured since her father had a hurricane day, it was a great time to get him involved. Little did I know what I was asking?....

He brought out the power tools and saws and helped her create a little house masterpiece! There is no way if I had helped J make it that it would have looked like this - wow! My DH used a tutorial from Almost Unschoolers (link below) to base this house on.

I was thinking a simple house of popsicle sticks and he was thinking doll house! The nest news is J loves it. And besides the sawing and such, she truly helped glue all of the sticks and such down. It was a great father/daughter project for them on this hurricane day:)

J wrote a letter home to Laura's family about how she missed them and her home in the woods. J had some experience with this because of our recent moves.

We had two great days of nice weather which probably sums up our fall season. The days were just calling us to do school outside. J took her little house outside and played while I read from our chapter books.

I found a simple 2 page comprehension test on the chapters we just read. I had her complete it just to see if she is understanding what we are reading. She did fine:)

Lastly, we read the chapter on the wolf pack that surrounded the little house and howled at the moon. How scary! They didn't even have a real door, just a quilt hanging in the doorway. Talk about being scared. But it seemed like Laura knew that her Pa would protect them and it turned out fine. I just can't imagine the odds that were against them on the prairie! Wow.

Links

Wee Folk Art - has the free template for the cabin quilt that we used for our block. It was originally made from wool felt but we used fabric.

One Crafty Mumma - has the popsicle house that I was thinking about, easy to do.

Almost Unschoolers - has the version of the house that my DH used.

Tot Tuesday

J is such a big help with Riley during school (as well as other times).  Riley loves riding piggyback on J. It is pure fun. They run up and down the hall having bouncy fun.