On the Banks of Plum Creek - Week 1 and 2

 

We recently started the next book in the Little house series - On the Banks of Plum Creek. The family had to move off the Reservation and started a new life. Everything was going well....until the grasshoppers came. We are learning a lot and I added a few new projects in our learning mix.

J worked on her note booking pages but she was eager to try the new mini loom that I bought at Hobby Lobby. She kept asking when she could try it, so the time came...

Thanks to my Mom sending a box full of yarn, J had a tremendous choice of colors and fibers. (Thanks Mom:) She is weaving a few projects for her little house and her doll.

After a week, she is still weaving on her mini loom. I all most wish I bought the larger one!

J worked on her mini books for her notebook. Here she is creating a button necklace like the one Carrie received at Christmas time.

J decided to paint some of the wild flowers that the girls say on the prairie. Here she is painting Lavender. This prompted her to paint wild flower pictures for each of her friends for gifts. I love her enthusiasm over her school/art projects. Next week, I am hoping to have a manners tea party with Vanity cakes. See you soon.

God's Promises

As part of the new year in our homeschool, I knew that I wanted to have a Bible time with both of the kids together. I truly wanted to use Telling God's Story Book Two but I decided to save that for next school year and I found God's Promise by Sally Michael. J and I worked through God's Names by the same author for an Advent study. This is a simple Bible study that can be added to, if needed, or just taken at face value. Hard as it might be, we are just taking it at face value. I wanted something simple that we could do together since we had so much fun with out Christmas unit.

Each day consists of reading the lesson, reading the Bible verses, and maybe a simple project or activity. One thing you do for each lesson is write the lesson verses on a notecard and decorate it as a gift. So, we started our gift ring of Bible verses.

For Kaleb, since he is still an early writer, I made notecards that are traceable for each lesson. He decorates the other side as a present.

Sometimes, the lesson calls for a definition of a word. I made cards for each of the words that needed a definition. J is working on her cards - I love that smile!

Here's a picture of the first two lessons of God's Promise. It includes a small book, our Promise definition card and our gift verses. Not too bad for a new study. I am currently creating a file for this book for download - but not finished it yet....soon. If you would like what I have, I can send it to you. Please let me know.

I definitely like having a set time for both my kids to sit down together and learn about the Bible. This book may be somewhat over my Kaleb's head but he seems to enjoy the lessons anyway. I am glad we started this and hope to continue have Bible time together next school year.

B4FIAR - The Red Carpet

Recently, Kaleb and I rowed The Red Carpet by Rex Parkin. I just knew that he would love the story of the runaway red carpet that had police chasing it all over town!

Because of the police chase, we learned about our community helpers. Kaleb painted a police car for a simple art project,

We talked about stop lights and what each color represents. He made a mini book about stop lights.

He painted a police cap to add to his dress up bin.

He made his own map where the red carpet rolled through town. I put it in a protective sheet so he could erase and run the carpet through town again.

I found printable traffic signs and made a matching game. We talked about the signs as we played and then he noticed more of them as we traveled around our town.

He found some of the words from the story. Kaleb isn't reading yet but he can still find words in our story.

Kaleb sporting his police cap.

We made pretzels the easy way - from pizza dough. Besides being somewhat smoky in our house, they were pretty good. He decided he wanted cinnamon and sugar pretzels. (link below)

He made his own town and ran the red carpet through it. I gave him a roll of red streamers and he made the town. In the background, you can see the Batman dresser that my DH painted - Kaleb loves it. Have an awesome day.

Links

Homeschool Share - has a free printable pack for The Red Carpet.

Domestic Serenity - has a few ideas for the row of this book.

Delightful Learning - has a few more ideas for this book.

Homeschool Creations - has some free printables as well as some ideas.

Life a Little Brighter - has a super easy pretzel recipe using pizza dough.

Talice Harper - has a free fingerprint investigation sheet if you are working a unit on police officers.

Cooking Classy - has a recipe for cinnamon pretzels.

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.