Monday, November 26, 2012

'12/13 Week 14 Day 1

We had a great Thanksgiving break - visited the Renaissance Festival, drove out of town to visit with friends for Thanksgiving, the children played their little hearts out outside every day, and indoors they learned the wonderful game of marbles, did a fair amount of shopping with us, chose their own special ornaments for this year and helped me and Dad decorate the house and our Christmas tree. 

Now, we are back to our studies. The children had forgotten almost nothing and did not miss a beat at all as we dove into our letters and numbers and science today. I took a number of pictures, but my blogspot account informed me that I have reached my 1 GB limit and as I am not interested in purchasing extra space, I will have to figure out how to post photos from now on. 

We started out our morning by reading the Bible as usual. Saara's story was about God calling Samuel - a good little story to act out. We do it a lot in our Sunday school and both children liked putting on a short play at home as well. 

Andrew loved his science class. We watched a few videos about the outback and the animals who live there. We could not get over the shudders of watching David Attenborough eat a honey pot ant. Yuk! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnlA8xXCMQ


Saara had plenty of fun of her own. We are studying 'the matter' and our second category after the solids was the liquids. Saara got to do one of her favorite activities - pouring water from one container into another. Honing her skills. Very soon she may be pouring her own milk over her cereal. 
Eli and Samuel

Saara loving her science activity.
While Andrew is completing his independent assignment, the teacher is sneaking in a row or two.
A moment of peace and quiet - the mailman brought the next issues of Highlights and High Five.