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Week 10 - Egyptian pots
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Week 6 - Painting
The boys are listening to "Summer" by Vivaldi and ... -
Weeks 5-6 : Sukkot
Sukkot is a week-long celebration of the fall harv...
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009
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Week 10 - Egyptian pots
They made pots out of clay.
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Week 6 - Painting
The boys are listening to "Summer" by Vivaldi and using watercolors to paint a summer scene.
This is one reason why I really like using a preplanned curriculum, because I would probably never do this on my own. Children painting in the house makes me uptight. (the mess! the cleanup! horrors!) But intellectually I see value in teaching my children art as well as appreciation of classical music. So having it written down on a schedule means I am much more likely to actually do it. I know it's coming ahead of time and can prepare myself for it. And the box-checker in me likes to get each and every little box completed, although I'm not so uptight that I don't eliminate or shuffle the lesson plans as I see fit.
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Weeks 5-6 : Sukkot
Sukkot is a week-long celebration of the fall harvest. Leviticus commanded the people to live in "booths" to remind them of the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the desert in temporary homes.
We have a small back porch and turned part of it into our sukkah (booth) by hanging green and camo fabric (to give that nature feeling) for sides, then adding branches and decorating with apples and a pumpkin. It was an extremely cold and windy week, so I'm very glad that we didn't build a free-standing structure as we were supposed to.
Monday, 23 November 2009
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Week 5 - Step pyramid
We built a step pyramid out of sugar cubes:
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Week 4 - Reed boat
We made an Egyptian reed boat out of tall grass. Unfortunately ours didn't float very well and sank our cow and army guy passengers. (i think it needed to be bundled together better)
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- Name: Wendy
- Member Since: 3/31/2008
About Me
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Married to my best friend. Professional mother. Home educator. Awesomely privileged to be raising up four sons and one daughter for the Lord.
