Tot Tuesday

Riley got a new sandbox for his birthday. He loves it - thanks Grandma!

I added some rocks so he could play with inside but it eventually found its way outside.

A Little Lego Fun

I wanted to share these awesome photos of the lego exhibit that we were able to visit this summer, thanks to my mom. It was an extremely hot day but the kids had a blast. Thought you would like to see these - Mom:)

The Lego creations were amazing, the kids loved them. If only we could make these :) Thanks for reading.

Character Training - Honesty with free printable

We are still working through the Virtue Training Bible and this week's virtue was honesty.

J worked on the notebook pages for honesty - coloring the title pages and the verse ring.

She looked up honesty in the dictionary and wrote the definition in her notebook.

She then looked up each verse and highlighted it in the correct color, adding the color flags to mark her Bible.

Her finished notebook pages and verse ring. If you would like a copy of these to add to your notebook, link is below. Hope these help. Have a great week.

Download Honesty Notebook Pages HERE.

Gingerbread Baby

As part of our winter book study, we decided to work with The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. We definitely had fun reading all of the gingerbread books we could find! Here are a few of the activities we accomplished...

I found some items that I made for my Gingerbread Tot bag - I rescued them from overseas. He played with the puppet that I brought home.

He dressed the gingerbread.

HE worked on a free sheet about if he was the gingerbread boy and what he wanted running after him - a dog.

We read every version of the gingerbread boy from our library.

He worked on -an and -at words. He sorted the word cards to the correct house.

He followed the directions for the ordinal numbers. He has been working on ordinal numbers in math and this was a great review.

He rolled the gingerbread cube and graphed the results. He like this throwing of dice and graphing activity.

He made his own gingerbread family - a gingerbread person to represent each one of us. He also wrote the names of each person on them himself! I hung these from our big front window.

After our family dinner, we decorated gingerbread cookies. We may have used a whole tub of icing - it was good fun and a lot of sugar! All links for each activity and more are below. Have an awesome day.

Links

Homeschool Creations - has free Gingerbread Baby printable.

Homeschool Share - has a free Gingerbread Baby pack.

Keeping life Creative - has a free template for a gingerbread house.

Living Worldsapart - my pinterest board on gingerbread week.

Teaching Heart - has a free printable roll and graph activity.

Learn Create Love - has a free printable gingerbread craft.

Ready Set Read - has some free printable gingerbread pages.

Kindergarten Smiles - has a free gingerbread writing page.

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My Riley as Darth Vader.

Oz Hands-On

Recently, we were able to visit the local hands-on museum to participate in The Wizard of Oz exhibit. We scored some free passes and it was a girls day - just me and J. Thought I would share a few pictures from the day.

In Kindergarten, we read The Wizard of Oz as part of Sonlight's program. It was somewhat graphic but we enjoyed most of it. J also learned that Dorothy's slippers were not red but silver. When they  made the film, silver wouldn't show up as well as red slippers.

J rode the bike with Toto in the back. Her pedal power made the cinemascope run.

She climbed her way to the Witch's broom. She liked the web climbing.

She wasn't too thrilled with the Scarecrow - see that face!

She brushed the lion's mane.

I tried to get her to milk the cow but she wasn't having it. The exhibit was great. I was worried that it was going to be too young for her but she had fun. It was a nice girls' day out.

Advent Study - God's Names

Last year, I gave J a choice of advent bible studies. I asked her if she wanted to learn about the Genealogy of Jesus, God's Names, or a simple Christmas devotional. She chose God's names.  Because of computer issues, I wasn't able to share what we did during the holiday season but I wanted to post this in case your family would like to learn about God's Names during the next advent season or any other time. It is not just for advent!

The first reading of the book talks about just how many names God has. It is amazing how many  names he has. The book suggested that J discover how many names she has - she came up with 11.

For every  name of God, we tried to come up with an ornament. Since this was the first lesson on how many names J had, she made a crystal J (borax experiment). This was easy to do with great results. It just takes a few days to dry.

Also, she colored each name for her poster and a mini ornament for the window display.

Here is her ornament for Elhohim. She made a coffee filter world and placed it in her hand.

Here is her Yahweh ornament - burning bush and her name for the poster.

The beginning of her poster. Each day, she added each name she learned. It was full by the time we finished.

Another ornament. Many times, I would ask her what she would like to make for the tree to represent the name and she would come up with some great ones. Here's a fish.

A magnifying glass ornament.

Our window display - God's names. She colored a new one each day. I love how this turned out. Our tree was also a success. I wish I would have taken a picture of it. We learned so much from this book - it definitely doesn't have to be an advent study. Have a great day.