This week, the letter M

It was a busy week! Here are the highlights...

Mooncake by Frank Asch
This book is FULL of learning opportunities!!
Here are the boys tasting snow (Is it delicious like Bear said in the book?) It does NOT snow often here in Texas...how cool that it snowed the weekend before we read this book!! :)
We also talked about what trees looked like during each of the four seasons (pictured in the book), what bears and birds do during the winter months, and other signs of each season.



Saying the pledge (a daily occurrence)

PRAYing:
Last week, we learned to praise God through prayer. This week, we learned to PRAISE God through music, singing, instruments, and dancing. We listened to "Make a joyful noise to the Lord/I will not be silent" (David Crowder Band) *also a blessing, because this was our Bible verse for the week!!!* and "Mighty to Save." We talked about how God made everything for His glory (one of the catechism questions) and how the trees and flowers glorify God (as the David Crowder Band song said.)


Bible Verse:
"Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth." Psalm 100:1

Bible Story:
Stories of Moses all week
(Jesus Storybook Bible)

Math and Language Arts:
We learned about opposites and discussed the examples in a couple of our "Opposites" library books:

A Garden of Opposites by Nancy Davis

Exactly the Opposite by Tana Hoban

Moses dot-to-dot

Copywork this week included: Psalm 100:1, m words, and other memory verses

Journal: Draw things that start with the "m" sound; What does it look like outside during the Winter?

Geography: (America unit) USA map puzzle

Book for fun: My "m" Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure

Science/book for fun: From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (body awareness)

Vocab words from RRSP (Trace letter M, cut out cards, put in binder)

AND our work boxes from this week:
Paint pallet with primary and secondary color/color-mixing

Clothes Pin Number Match Card
I cannot remember where I got this idea from!!!

Sponge painting the moon on our letter M for our wall alphabet

Learning about money (coin labeling and counting)
Fun M&M activities from Confessions of a Home schooler


A baby Moses color and cut puzzle

Coloring our map of America for our Unit Study

A game of Memory

Another book for fun:

Monkey Mo Goes to Sea by Diane Goode

Books for Science:

I Spy in the Texas Sky by Deborah Ousley Kadair (clouds and for our Texas unit study)

My Five Senses by Margaret Miller (for body awareness)

Fridays are Science Experiment Days!! We didn't get to it today, because we were gone ALL day. I'm hoping to do this tomorrow. Yes, sometimes we do school on the weekend or on "holidays." Since we are doing the Body Awareness Unit Study, we are doing very simple experiments with our 5 senses. Last week, we did a smell and guess experiment. This week...touch and guess :) (making sure I get in a little tactile activity every now and then haha)

God is in this Place!

Examples of the Lord's presence and blessing on our home schooling efforts this week...

We have been learning about colors and the mixing of the primary colors. This morning, the boys were watching a new show on the kids' "Christian" TV channel, and they were "quizzing" the kids on that exact topic!

We are learning the names of coins for "M" week, and what did we get in the mail today? A request for donations from a charity...with a nickel inside. ha!

I picked out a book (Mooncake by Frank Asch) at the library last week. I flipped through it and checked it out, hoping it was a good one for "M" week. Wow, not only will I be talking later this week about how wonderful this book is...but God gave us SNOW this weekend to prepare us for this book!! Tune in on Friday to see the many lessons we were able to pull from this one resource :)

Our "M" Bible verse is Psalm 100:1 "Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth." David Crowder Band has a song of this verse, and we were able to sing, dance, and praise God
this morning while listening. (Practicing praising God through song AND practicing our verse of the week!!)

Once again, amazed and blessed!!

"You learn something new everyday!"

One of the joys of homeschooling is the fact that we don't have to have school TIME. We can learn all day, every day. Awhile back, I bought a CD of classic classical music. I didn't want to start listening to it with the boys until I could take the time to introduce them to the composers. Yesterday, I bought pictures of the composers, so today? We listened and learned about classical music and the composer, Mozart. I have to say, it's been awhile since I listened to classical music, and I truly have been neglecting myself!! The baby also drifted off to sleep so peacefully the second I turned it on. It was amazing.