tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91376429473141737872024-02-21T09:08:27.110-08:00Chasing Fire FliesCapturing flashes of brilliance in the everyday rhythm of homeschoolingBrookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11392810979123519326noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137642947314173787.post-31768204087670562372014-12-15T09:55:00.002-08:002014-12-15T09:55:53.608-08:00More Elf Fun....Days 8-14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 8 found Rudy in the mood for a little fishing. Goldfish fishing, that is!</div>
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By Day 9 Rudy needed to relax and unwind a bit.</div>
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Here's a fun update to day 7, when Rudy left Emma a message in M&Ms. We planted them in a bowl of sugar like directed and look what sprouted!</div>
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December 10th was Emma's seventh birthday!!! Rudy surprised her by leading her on a little scavenger hunt, which ended in the bathtub. Rudy was waiting for her with a special greeting, a party hat, and her gifts. She was delighted! (We had a wonderful day and I can hardly believe the baby of our family is SEVEN!)</div>
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The eleventh of December and Rudy, like the rest of us southerners, is ready for some winter weather! Here's to wishful thinking!!!</div>
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December 12th.....the day we have been waiting for all semester! Sissy and her roommate come home for a visit!!!! My son Hayden took care of this entirely on his own. I was completely exhausted and engrossed in a difficult computer project, so he stayed up super late and put this together to bless me. It mean the world to me! Didn't he do a great job??</div>
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Day 13....GASP! He tried to frame our (sweet, adorable, perfect) dog!!! No one here believed that Penny could do such a terrible thing.</div>
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Day 14, and Rudy was feeling rather bright.</div>
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We are certainly finding out that having an elf in the house is a tricky task.....we certainly never know what we will find when we wake up! Rudy has kept things lively and interesting around here.</div>
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We are really enjoying our advent study, Truth in Tinsel. Today we completed Day Seven. I completely lucked out at Target the day before Thanksgiving. I found a super slim, inexpensive tree on display, but there were no more in stock. I found the nicest lady to help me. She sold me the floor model at a discount. I don't have to put it together AND it's cheaper??? YAY!!!!! Pinch me!</div>
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I had $25 worth of Target gift cards that I earned from special bonus buys over the past few weeks, so I cashed those in and my little tree ended up costing me $3. It fits perfectly in our entryway, and it is now one of my very favorite Christmas decorations!!! Penny wanted to model the tree for you....</div>
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I looked at several Advent options and WOW, there are some wonderful ones to choose from. I liked the Jesse Tree idea, so I knew I wanted something along those lines. When I found Truth in Tinsel I knew it would be a great place for us to start. I feel Emma is on the upper end age-wise, but still very appropriate. There is a lot of flexibility in how you use this program. When you purchase the download you get 24 daily devotionals leading up to Christmas, and each study has a corresponding ornament. There are paper ornaments available to color and cut out, and also suggestions for simple craft ornaments if you prefer. Naturally, we chose the crafts. ;-)</div>
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Day One: Candlelight</div>
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She is a wooden peg doll. Her face is painted with a flesh colored craft acrylic. Her body is wrapped in variegated yarn. Her (very blonde) hair is also yarn. (Wish I had brown yarn in my stash!) Head covering is a small scrap of fabric. Face.......that's an original design. ;-)</div>
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These ornaments are NOT PERFECT. It is super important to me that Emma get to make them, or participate in making them as much as possible. To me part of the charm and sentiment is that these look like a first grader did them.</div>
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I found this burlap covered heart ornament and cut out felt shapes to glue on it. I embroidered the hair faces ahead of time. Emma glued the shapes together following a pattern I drew, and then tied the ribbon. <i>(A little crafting tip: Aleene's tacky glue is great for crafts with ribbon, sequins, gems, fabric, or felt. Hot glue is excellent, but not very kid friendly. Elmer's is NOT good on felt.)</i></div>
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I found this clear plastic ball ornament "for a song" (no pun intended) at Hobby Lobby. (I think they were 3 for a dollar.) I printed an image of antiqued sheet music and cut it into narrow strips. We rolled each strip snugly and dropped it into the ball. Then, we tied with baby ric-rac and added a little embellishment. I really like this one.</div>
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Our little tree at the end of week one. A lovely start!!</div>
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I'll admit it, I'm having fun with Rudy.</div>
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His messes are somehow cuter than everyone else's. ha!</div>
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Anyway, Friday night Rudy opened the mint M&M's that were hiding in the cabinet. They actually belong to my Mom. She brought them to a dinner party and we didn't end up using them, so I put them in my cabinet and told her we would break them out at the next social gathering. I was really proud of myself for leaving them alone for so long. I told her Rudy opened them and sent her this picture.....</div>
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First, my Mom celebrated her birthday in November, so I took to Pinterest to find a project that Emma could make for her. I found these adorable tissue boxes, and I think they turned out great! I covered the boxes with brown craft paper, then drew patterns for Emma and gave her a stack of scrapbook paper. She traced and cut all the pattern pieces, then glued the turkeys together. She was pretty precise! Don't the google eyes just slay you? Eyelids and eyelashes? Hilarious! We had so much paper left over that we made a second turkey to keep. He's still sitting on my counter with all the Christmas decor. I can't seem to throw him away!</div>
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I also took some inspiration from a blog called<a href="http://creeksidelearning.com/?s=thanksgiving" target="_blank"> Creekside Learning</a>. She had this super clever idea to fashion pilgrims and indians out of cardboard tubes, so we took that and ran with it. These were addictive to make!</div>
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They graced our Thanksgiving table as the centerpiece. (I clearly took it easy this year!)</div>
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Jeff and I went out with our supper club the night Emma and I worked on these. She gathered several of the scraps while we were out and surprised me by making this horse for the indians. PERFECT. He is by far my favorite piece of the entire setting. She is a craft genius! :-)</div>
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We took a day during Thanksgiving week to meet some friends at the arboretum and play in the pumpkins. The thing about play dates is that I think they quite often bless the moms more than the kids! It is so nice to fellowship with other homeschooling moms who are in my same boat. I love swapping stories and just indulging in some girl time. This day was food for my soul!</div>
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My oldest did not come home for Thanksgiving. She had good reasons for staying in Tennessee, but still, I missed her terribly. So, it was nice to have extra teens in the house to love on and feed over the holidays. I love LOVE having a house full of kids....makes my heart GRATEFUL.</div>
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Jeff was off the entire week of Thanksgiving, which was such a treat. Sunday night, we ran an errand on the other side of town, just the two of us. On the way home, we stopped by this big light display that was synchronized to music. It was really well done and super festive. I absolutely LOVE Christmas light displays, so this was a very sweet gesture on Jeff's part, and it was the perfect, quiet ending to a busy, blessed week.</div>
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Our last official row of the semester was The Story of Ping. We worked on this book the weeks of November 3rd and 10th. Now, I can't say it was a disappointment because we always manage to have fun and accomplish a lot of hands on learning with our Five In A Row titles. However, I have extremely fond and sentimental memories of this book from my own childhood, but Emma did not share my enthusiasm for the story. At all. Not a favorite of hers. I don't really know why? She hated that Ping got "spanked" and lost from his family. Nothing appealed to her about the book, so we did not end up reading it every day. That's okay. It still served as a springboard for other things.</div>
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We did a fun math sheet with Bingo markers to calculate how many members are in Ping's family. We also used some downloads from Homeschool Share and a FIAR Fold and Learn to make some pages for our scrapbook. I accidentally erased some pictures from my memory card from this row, so I don't have much to actually show.</div>
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Since ducks are buoyant, we conducted a "sink or float" science experiment. We gathered assorted household items and predicted if they would sink or float. Then, we tested our theories and graphed the actual results. The graphing exercise was great practice. We also then categorized our items into various categories....those that sink, those that float, those we guessed correctly, those we guessed incorrectly, etc. She really enjoyed this.</div>
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The one redeeming thing about this book was our in depth study of ducks. She LOVES animals, and was endlessly interested in the duck theme. We found TONS of non-fiction books at the library to read, as well as a basket of fun literature....Happy Birthday Dear Duck, Daisy Comes Home, and many more. We will continue to study ducks when we row Make Way For Ducklings this spring. I thought I would have to wait several months to space these two books apart, but she has already asked a few times when we are going to do the next duck book, so that's great!</div>
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There were a few things that fell by the wayside....we never went out for Chinese food and we didn't make our own egg rolls. I also had some cute Chinese crafts that we did not do. We had out of town company during the first week of this row, and a field trip day during the second. Since there were a few things we did not get to, I thought about extending our study by a few extra days, but she was ready to move on, and due to her lack of interest I felt okay about closing the book on this one. I wish she would have been more excited about the story, but we still managed to have a good time and learn some valuable things.</div>
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December First!!! HOORAY!! I absolutely love the holidays, and I'm looking so forward to a month of fun, food, fellowship, friends, and family. This year we are doing Elf on the Shelf for the very first time. Our elf, Rudy, arrived this morning and we celebrated with a North Pole Breakfast. </div>
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Preparing our hearts and minds to observe the birth of the Christ child is our TRUE reason for celebration around here. This year I downloaded an advent study from Truth In the Tinsel. That study will be the main focus of our homeschool this month. Each day, we will do the devotional together, then make an ornament to hang on our advent tree. We are also reading applicable stories from our various children's Bibles. I will share more about our advent tree in the next few days. Our advent focus will most likely replace FIAR studies for the next few weeks. (I'm still debating about doing one book.)</div>
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A tremendous cold snap blew into town this morning, so we stayed inside ALL day, reading and crafting. I even skipped a Faith Keeper meeting tonight. (No guilt, which is rare!) I was so incredibly wiped out from Thanksgiving that I just hit a wall late this afternoon. The boys had a meeting tonight, so Emma and I stayed home alone. We curled up under a fuzzy blanket by the light of the tree and watched Winnie the Pooh Christmas and made foam snowflakes. (Thanks Oma, for the ornament kit!) IT WAS DIVINE, and I said a little prayer that the peace and relaxation and gratitude that I felt tonight would set the stage for the next 31 days. :-) </div>
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I tend to get energized by the chaos of the holidays. I know not everyone loves the extra bustle, but I delight in the baking and crafting and decorating socializing and list making. I think it is super important to keep Jesus at the center of it all and put the brakes on (like tonight) if it stops being fun and starts to feel overwhelming. Otherwise, I relish the arrival of December the first and gladly slip into the vortex of the Christmas storm!!</div>
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I'm glad to be back online after a long absence. Our computer broke and went into the shop, and once we got it back, there was a long line of family members waiting their turn to hop on and get caught up with life! I have several posts to do in a row to get back up to speed, so here we go....</div>
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We rowed "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge" by Hildegarde Swift during the weeks of October 20th and 27th. Because we are picking up some extra content in science and reading and those areas are taking up more time in our day, I have spent two weeks on each of the last several Five in a Row studies we have done. There are only so many hours in a day! I have mixed feelings about that pace....I find so many creative, hands on ideas for each book, as well as baskets full of add on books from the library. I want to spend enough time with each FIAR title to include as many of those fun "extras" as possible. However, I also have a long list of books I would like to cover, so as I plan for next semester I need to evaluate how many activities we do and how fast we want to move.</div>
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This was a wonderful story written in the 1940's that we enjoyed very much. The little red lighthouse is an actual lighthouse in New York City on the banks of the Hudson River. It is not functioning today (it is part of Fort Washington Park), but it is open to the public for tours. It's demure size pales compared to the George Washington Bridge towering beside it, and this charming story captures the thoughts and emotions of the little lighthouse as the bridge was built.</div>
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The internet is a fabulous resource for this row. There are videos available on you-tube of the story being read aloud. There is also a Reading Rainbow episode of Keep the Lights Burning Abby, which is a wonderful go-along with this title. We "toured" several lighthouses online, including the actual red lighthouse in Fort Washington Park.</div>
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We covered concepts like horizon line, foreground and background, and how to use curved lines to make our lighthouse appear rounded.</div>
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New York City is on my bucket list BIG TIME. I have never been there, and my husband has zero desire to go. I hope the Lord provides an opportunity one day for me to visit. My oldest took a trip there last year as part of the fine arts department with her college. (She is a photography minor.) Emma and I went back through all her photos from that trip, and also read several books about New York from the library.</div>
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We also read many books about bridges, and chose a few structures to study more closely. We engineered some of our own bridges using building toys to see which ones were the strongest and why.</div>
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These experiments were a pleasant surprise in that she expressed quite a lot of curiosity! She was genuinely interested in which bridges would hold the most, and she herself kept coming up with ideas for how to try more of them. I had to drag her to the table this day to get her started (ugh), but once she got going, she was unstoppable! A good lesson on not judging a subject matter before you know how FUN it can be!!</div>
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Our big project for this row was building a lighthouse from a red plastic cup. I gave her a roll of Washi tape to make the lighthouse stripes, which ended up looking really junky, but she had a blast with that silly tape! Used up almost the entire roll!! I asked her to make the first lighthouse according to the directions I gave her, and then promised her a second cup and set of supplies to make one however she wanted. This is a good compromise for us from time to time. I want her to learn to follow specific directions, but I also love to see what she comes up with on her own because she is so outrageously creative! Since I tend to have a few control issues with crafts (clears throat), making two often keeps the peace. ;-)</div>
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The top of the lighthouse is a battery operated votive candle. They come two to a pack at the Dollar Tree. (Another reason why making two houses was handy!)</div>
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Emma invited me into the homeschool room one night, long after we had finished school and it was dark outside. She had our little lighthouses glowing and a snack sitting on the table. She asked me to read aloud to her by the dim light in her cozy setting...absolutely a heartwarming moment!!</div>
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We have used a lot of Sonlight through the years in our homeschooling. I absolutely love Five In A Row and it is a great fit for us this year, but there are some really fabulous Sonlight books I don't want her to miss out on. Also, FIAR titles (from the first three volumes) are shorter picture books, and I want her to develop the discipline of sitting through longer books with more complex story lines. So, I've tried to incorporate even more read aloud time in our days. This is a challenge with so many library books that coordinate with our FIAR studies, but I'm trying to find a good balance.</div>
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I had a few more activities planned that we didn't have time for. We talked about compound words quite a bit, but I didn't use my compound word flashcards to play games. Also, I found some fun printables about personification that we did not do. I set those aside in hopes there is a future FIAR title with a good personification theme. Lastly, I bought New York City stickers from the scrapbook section and was going to have her decorate a map of New York for our notebook. I'm saving those stickers! Maybe someday I will have my own photos from a Big Apple trip that I can scrapbook! Ha!</div>
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Yet another sweet story under our belt and more fun times spent together making memories. This book was a winner and gets thumbs up from us both!</div>
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Brookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11392810979123519326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137642947314173787.post-88391649859462209492014-11-12T17:46:00.000-08:002014-11-12T17:46:09.236-08:00Oh Dread... The Computer Is Dead!My Mac is sick, and being held hostage at the Apple store waiting for a part to come in. Losing the family homeschool computer is like losing a limb! :-(<br />
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Rest assured we are still here...and still plugging. Last week we finished Little Red Lighthouse and this week we are rowing Ping. We also love Apologia Zoology and are having lots of insect fun. All of our ladybug larvae have hatched and we have 18 ladybugs!!<br />
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Hopefully we will be back up and running in the technology department soon.....posts and pictures are coming! In the meantime, we are staying in and staying warm....a major cold front arrived this morning. Makes for good snuggling and read aloud time! Happy schooling!!Brookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11392810979123519326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137642947314173787.post-46888391514072971132014-10-20T21:58:00.000-07:002014-10-20T21:58:02.995-07:00FIAR: Lentil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We spent the last week (and a half) rowing Lentil, by Robert McCloskey, one of my very favorite authors. I normally row a book a week, but since this past week had both Columbus Day and a field trip day, I decided to let Lentil spill over into a second week. It turned out to be a good decision because we found lots of fun things to do to keep us busy!</div>
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Lentil is set in fictitious Alto, Ohio. It is the story of a boy named Lentil who learns to play the harmonica and is given an opportunity to shine. The themes associated with this story are:</div>
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Patriotism, citizenship, and the American flag</div>
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Harmonicas and Instruments</div>
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On day one, we read the story for the very first time. Young Lentil saves up his pennies to buy a brand new harmonica. I asked Emma if she would like to save pennies to buy a harmonica too, and of course her answer was YES! So, I got a big stack of (filthy dirty) pennies and set them on our homeschool table. During every subject, Emma had the opportunity to earn more and more pennies. By the end of the day, she was excited that she finally had enough to "buy" her harmonica!</div>
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(<i>This was a cute copy work exercise she completed. I hot glued a real penny on the front of this and put it in our lap book</i>.)</div>
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Emma eagerly handed over all her pennies........only to be told that I would only take CLEAN pennies as payment. :-) So, into the kitchen we went for a little science fun. Cleaning pennies!</div>
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FINALLY she was ready! I found this cute harmonica on amazon several months ago and have been saving it for her.</div>
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It has a very pleasant sound, and a limited number of notes, so it is very beginner friendly.</div>
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We practiced our harmonica in the bathtub, just like Lentil, to check out the acoustics!</div>
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I don't always share the lap book projects that we do for FIAR. These are not really the focus of our book studies, as the authors of FIAR intend for it to be a very conversational and hands on style of learning. However, we do complete some seat work with each row, and I assemble card stock pages that I add to a GREAT BIG notebook, which is a lap book scrapbook of our FIAR studies. Some of the printables I use come from homeschoolshare.com. Others are "Fold and Learn" packets directly from the FIAR website. Still others are just great ideas I gather from other creative FIAR users.</div>
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Emma loves to color and enjoys things that are crafty. So, we have FUN with our notebook. However, my boys would have hated doing this, so I never would have pushed it. I only throw that out there because I see online that many people turn FIAR into a major lap book curriculum. It certainly can be used that way, but it doesn't have to be. </div>
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That being said.......here are some things we created for our notebook during this row...</div>
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We read a few books about Ohio, the state where Emma's Aunt (who she adores) is from. Then, we chose a few facts and made a little Ohio book of our own, in honor of Auntie Kaylyn.</div>
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Again, she spent some significant time on the artwork. Well done, Emma!</div>
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Lentil attends a homecoming celebration for a town hero, and the citizens all hang out their flags. This row was a great opportunity to practice the pledge and learn about how to properly respect the American flag.</div>
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The most fascinating thing we did was learn about <b>Robert Heft</b>, the man responsible for the arrangement of the fifty stars. Heft, who did not love school, completed his design as part of a school project. His story is inspiring, and I love that a young person contributed to our nation's most prized symbol!</div>
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Emma already knew the pledge, but we rehearsed it every day.</div>
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We had more than a few laughs trying to remember "onomatopoeia". Every day when I would ask her for the word, she would make up something super silly....."olliemolliepoopoo".....</div>
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Then we laughed some more finding all the onomatopoeia's in the story!</div>
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I found a <u>great</u> book version of this song at the library by Emily Coplon. We sang/read it every single day, then made our own little version for our lap book. (<i>Except we took OUT the page about killing the old red rooster when she comes. NO WAY were we putting that page in our book! Ha!</i>)</div>
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One day we talked about how the illustrator used the expressions on the character's faces to really help the author tell the story. We had fun drawing very simple faces to express certain emotions, then I asked her to pick one and draw it for our book. Here's happy. :-)</div>
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I used these Fruit of the Spirit cards this week while studying lemons, and also the last two weeks while studying apples. We have been going through them during Bible time, and working on Galatians 5:25. I wish I could remember the site where I found them. I printed and colored them, then mounted them on card stock and laminated them. We will use these frequently as this is a lesson we all need to focus on again and again. (Especially me!)</div>
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The characters in the story pucker from the lemons. This led us to a study of taste. I pulled several human body books from our home bookshelves, and checked out a few more from the library. I even found a fun one about how animals taste, which was a fun spin.</div>
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This was a funny 3D tastebud activity from our Easy Make and Learn Human Body book.</div>
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I made a simple map of the tongue, and we marked the areas that detect sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. Then, she drew an example of each of those sensations.</div>
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Lemons are very acidic, which led us to an acid/base study using a cabbage juice indicator. I got this idea from Michelle at <a href="http://www.delightfullearning.net/?s=Lentil" target="_blank">Delightful Learning</a>.</div>
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Here's my little scientist recording her observations.</div>
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We then squeezed lots of extra lemons......</div>
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.....and made lemonade! Homemade lemonade is best if you make a simple syrup by boiling sugar and water together. That way, you don't get any grit from the raw sugar.</div>
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We also enjoyed a delicious meal of lemon chicken. This was a new recipe, and it was a winner!</div>
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Our biggest treat for this unit was a field trip to the symphony!! My older kids have been more times than they care to count. They are now officially old enough to refuse going, so I'm delighted to have a new <strike>victim</strike> attendee. (I love the symphony!!!)</div>
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We prepared for our trip by checking out some books from the library and watching some videos on you tube to learn about how the orchestra works and a bit about instrument families.</div>
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I made a quad-fold chart to help us categorize the instruments. I googled to get clip art instruments to print, and we cut them out and added them to our book. She loved this, and it made her excited to go hear the music.</div>
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My Mom attended with us.</div>
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We got second row seats! Score!</div>
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She liked the violins and flute the best. (Which was funny since this particular youth orchestra performance highlighted brass instruments.) She has actually talked about violin quite a bit lately and we are thinking about taking up lessons. The concert master sat directly in front of Emma and waved to her several times during the performance. She was an eloquent and distinguished looking woman in a long, formal satin gown. That pretty much cinched the deal on Emma liking violin!</div>
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On our way home from downtown, we stopped in at the American Girl Store. A big treat! Right inside the doorway there was a display for what else? Doll instruments! Perfect!!!</div>
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She dutifully looked at all the pretty dolls and clothes, but her real motivation for being there was to get to these..........the very best part of the AG store!! :-)</div>
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Lentil was a wonderful row for us. I wanted to get up to Nana and Papa's farm to raise and lower a flag on their real flag pole, and learn how to fold one. We still need to do that one day soon. We had wonderful talks about patriotism during this row, and emphasized the bravery of those fighting for our country today. This is what I love so much about Five In A Row....such a wonderful spread of topics and opportunities every week. We cover so much ground, and in such a fun way.</div>
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One last idea I wanted to share.....I saw this at Hobby Lobby for a very reasonable price ($4). I thought it was too advanced for Emma so I passed this time, but if anyone reading here has older children, this is a cute idea to put to use with lemons!</div>
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We had big storms last night, and woke up to a cold, windy, gray day. Perfect for staying inside and breaking with our typical routine a bit. We did our normal morning....Bible, math, handwriting, reading....then we took the portion of the day normally devoted to FIAR and science and dedicated it to Columbus Day.</div>
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Then, we played a few fun games....a simple puzzle and several rounds of tick tack toe, downloaded from <a href="http://homeschooljourneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Columbus-Day-Activities.pdf" target="_blank">http://homeschooljourneys.com.</a></div>
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Next, we settled in for some light work from that same site, as well as from <a href="http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2013/09/columbus-day-coloring-sheets-writing.html" target="_blank">http://www.123homeschool4me.com</a>. <b>I appreciate these ladies who share their talent and creativity with the rest of us!!!</b></div>
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(<i>I also found some cute ideas at Embark on the Journey, but I didn't have time for them, so I filed them away for next year.</i>)</div>
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We watched an age appropriate movie about Columbus on youtube while snuggling under a quilt. I'm surprised how much I use that as a resource, but there are some wonderful FREE educational videos available on every topic under the sun!</div>
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So, the wind was HOWLING and the skies were CHURNING and it just seemed to be the kind of fall day that BEGGED for some baking! (I never have to be too strongly convinced in that area.) I had a bag of Heath pieces in my pantry, so I googled and found <a href="https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=3669&name=Toffee-Bits-Cookies" target="_blank">this</a> easy recipe. I added some Ghiradelli mini chocolate chips and called them <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Columbus Crunchy Crinkles</b></span> so it would sound super official. I love how you can totally make it up as you go along in first grade. :-) They provided a yummy snack right from the oven, then I threw the rest in the freezer for a party this coming weekend so I wouldn't continue to eat them all day long! :-)</div>
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We ended our day with this cute handprint craft from <a href="http://amomsviewfromthepew.blogspot.com/2012/10/columbus-day-art.html" target="_blank">amomsviewfromthepew.</a> Here's what I know about crafts in homeschool.....I absolutely LOVE art and creativity <i>in theory</i>, but <i>in practice</i> there is never, EVER an "easy" time to make a mess and do projects. Sometimes (like today) I really have to nudge myself to get on with the show, but I'm very rarely sorry for going to the effort. These sweet memories, the ones where we get messy and have fun and talk as we work, are some of my most favorite times in our homeschool. I don't handle messes well. I really don't. But I'm learning to stretch myself in this area, and God has blessed us with some really fun times.</div>
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This row turned out to be a happy coincidence on a few different levels. For one, we happened to be finishing a botany unit in Nancy Larson science, during which we studied the life cycle of the apple tree rather extensively. And two, I had no idea when I started this that Johnny Appleseed day would fall on the very week that I wanted to study Johnny Appleseed! SCORE! (I can't ever seem to get myself as organized and coordinated as I want to be, so when it happens "accidentally", I get so very excited.)</div>
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It was a great two weeks, truly, but I will tell you........I tried to cram in waaaaaay too much. This became readily apparent toward the end of week two when she plopped down on the couch during reading time and snarled, "Don't you have ANY books about peaches or pears? Or ANY other subject???" Ha!!! At that point, I was right along with her. We read (and read and read) about apples, ate a great multitude of apple snacks, and wore ourselves a little silly with apple activities.</div>
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Anyhoo.....here we are on DAY ONE, when our enthusiasm was still full boar!</div>
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Her little present for this row was the Appletters game. I've been looking for an excuse to buy this forever. It's a little challenging for her, but the boys and I have enjoyed it, and she'll get there.</div>
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One thing we DIDN'T get tired of was reading this precious book! How sweet a tale!</div>
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It starts off by saying how EASY it is to bake an apple pie....just gather the ingredients, mix and bake. Unless, of course, the market is closed.....</div>
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I made a sensory bin to go along with this unit. I filled it with black beans and made little pom-pom apples to go in it. I had an assortment of other fall items in there too, but I took it outside to play before I snapped pictures. Several neighbors came over to enjoy the bin with us, which was great, but it is a total mess now. I don't do sensory bins too terribly often, but as our outside playdate definitely proved, kids LOVE them! I thought maybe she was getting too old by first grade, but they spent HOURS on my driveway digging and scooping and pouring those beans. I included some tiny pumpkin gems and sparkly fall leaves that I got from the dollar spot at Target last year, as well as many containers and scoops. I even found an apple shaped ice cube tray at the dollar store. The kids had a ball with this, and the neighbors are still asking for me to bring it back out. Sweet!</div>
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As I mentioned, this unit happened to fall nicely with our science botany unit, in which we read the book <u>Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree</u>. We studied, studied, studied apple trees! We don't have many apple trees in the south. ;-( I would love to visit an orchard in the fall and have a true apple picking experience someday!</div>
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We checked out DOZENS of apple books from the library.</div>
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This is my favorite picture from this row.....we had beautiful music playing this day, and something yummy baking in the oven. We finished reading a beautifully illustrated book about apples, and she sat down to illustrate and label the parts of an apple blossom by her own initiative. These moments capture the beauty of homeschool for me!</div>
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I way (way, way, way) overdid the printables for this (never ending) apple unit. Ha! I won't even begin to share them all, but suffice it to say, if there was an apple worksheet, I found it on the internet and printed it for us to do. Oh, mylanta! </div>
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We did an apple even and odd tree...(First Grade Parade)</div>
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We did worksheets about the life of John Chapman (Mama's Learning Corner has cute ones)</div>
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We colored maps about where Johnny Appleseed traveled (Homeschool Share has some)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We have a PhD in apples!!!! :-)</b></span></div>
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One day we stopped at the market and each picked out a special apple. Any apple in the store...we got to pick our favorite one!</div>
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Then, we brought those two apples home and did an investigation. Surprise, surprise, we wrote a whole book about it. :-)</div>
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Apple Investigation sheets from www.findingtheteachablemoments.com.</div>
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I chose a Honeycrisp. (YUM.)</div>
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She chose a Yellow Delicious.</div>
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She found 17 seeds inside her apple. SEVENTEEN!!!!!!</div>
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I had a printable left over in my files from preschool. It was for the book "Ten Apples Up On Top". That printable would be too easy for her now, so we ramped it up and used it to do some skip counting. We counted by two's, three's, four's, etc. to make our little book.</div>
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Of course we had to include a couple cute apple crafts, like this paper plate apple core.</div>
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A highlight of our study was our apple tasting extravaganza. I've done this with all my kids, and it is always a big hit. We go to the specialty market in town and buy a big variety of apples that we have never heard of before. Then we all get a chance to vote on what we like, and we each pick our favorite.</div>
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I think I paid well over a dollar a piece for each of these......ridiculous! Ha! Those "special" apples are an investment!</div>
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I made cute little plates and "scorecards"</div>
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Envy was my favorite. Amazingly sweet and crunchy.</div>
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The capstone of this row, is, OF COURSE, making the apple pie!!!! How in the world do you do this row and forget to take a picture of the apple pie??? Goes to show how incredibly sick I was of apples by the last day of week two, I guess. :-) There is a recipe in the back of the story book, but I chose instead to try something new I found online. <a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apple-Pie-by-Grandma-Ople/" target="_blank">THIS </a>recipe got fabulous reviews online, and I was intrigued because it is made in a very unconventional way. I thought the reviews were well deserved...it was delicious!</div>
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I'll admit.....we were ready to moooove on. This may have been a good lesson for me in that old Jewish saying..... "just enough is plenty". I think I'm still trying to find a good rhythm with Five In A Row. There are so many great opportunities out there and it's hard to leave good ideas behind! While I may have packed in a slightly ambitious row these two weeks, we really did have a great time, and together we learned a LOT about how to see the world while baking an apple pie!</div>
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I'm am far and away from being an expert, but after teaching four kids to read, I'm a firm believer that some kids just "get it" quicker than others. I also know that in our house, what worked for one didn't necessarily work well for all.</div>
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When Emma entered kindergarten last year, I began researching through the loooong list of current reading programs. I was immediately drawn to All About Reading, and was really inspired by the overwhelming number of blog posts and reviews singing its praise.</div>
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I'm jumping on that bandwagon today to share a little bit about why I too love <a href="http://www.allaboutreading.com/" target="_blank">ALL ABOUT READING</a>.</div>
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Emma attended a kinder program outside our home, so I started Level One as an after-school program with her last fall. She tired really quickly the first half of the year, so we took it super slow. </div>
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The format of this program is very easy to divide for learners like Emma who need to ease in slowly. </div>
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The main teaching is done from a magnetic white board, with little magnetic letter tiles that are moved around to build words. Right off the bat, I love this multi sensory approach to learning! She can MOVE and participate....not just sit and listen! She is building the words herself to actually see the concepts in action, without a lot of pen and pencil work to bog her down. It's brilliant!</div>
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Lessons are scripted in the Teacher's Manual, so it is an "open-and-go" program.</div>
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Level one has three hardback readers. The stories are engaging and well illustrated.</div>
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Many of the lessons have some form of hands on activity. Here is Emma earlier this year flipping fried eggs to play a word game. These quick and easy activities are FUN, so often times we set them aside and play them a few days in a row. This is a natural confidence booster, because after playing the game repeatedly it becomes easy, and she gets so excited about how quickly she can recall the answers. <i>(I want to mention that these games and activities are provided right in the lesson book. You tear them out, and with very minimal work, are ready to roll. Some require a few minutes of cutting, and maybe a glue stick. In this instance, I grabbed a spatula for the kitchen to make it more fun, but I'm NOT running through the house gathering a long list of supplies or spending excessive amounts of time preparing for these lessons. If you keep scissors and a glue stick with your reading supplies, you're set!) </i></div>
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Most lessons have fluency sheets for extra practice. I found that in kindergarten she just wasn't ready for long and challenging lessons, especially after a full day at school. So, we just broke it down into parts and worked slowly. We may have worked on the white board one day, reviewed our cards the next few days, read a story from the reader, repeated the story, <i>repeated the story again</i>, then took several days to work our way through a fluency page. By the end of kindergarten, we made it half way through Level One, which was the right pace for her at the time.</div>
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Reading is one of her favorite subjects during the day. She never complains about it. (Hooray!)</div>
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This week we studied compound words by matching birds on a branch.</div>
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This program is clever, without being overly complicated.</div>
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Here she is "dividing" compound words with a dull butter knife. :-)</div>
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<b><u>SHE LIKES TO READ!!</u></b> And that is the whole point.</div>
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We were studying apples in science a few weeks ago, and she ran upstairs to get the book "Ten Apples Up On Top". She brought it down and read it out loud to me spontaneously. Her confidence (and ability!) grows day by day.</div>
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We are just a few short lessons away from completing Level One. I have ordered Level Two and it should be here any day.</div>
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<br />Brookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11392810979123519326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9137642947314173787.post-91241153318608748482014-10-08T21:06:00.002-07:002014-10-08T21:06:36.536-07:00The Easter Bunny Lives in Our Homeschool Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fast forward many months....my Mom is here babysitting one night and it is time for Emma to go to bed. Emma asks to sleep with "The Easter Bunny" and is completely unwilling to settle for anything different. My Mom searches high and low for a rabbit, as Emma's frustration escalates.</div>
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Gee....how come Grandma couldn't figure out that this was the requested creature? What's wrong with Grandma, anyway? Ha!!!! We have laughed and laughed over that one. We arrived home that night and my poor Mom was frazzled and beat. Emma was old enough to say "Easter Bunny!!" again and again, but not old enough to describe or explain to my Mom what she meant. The more animals Mom offered, the more upset she got that Grandma couldn't get it right.</div>
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Emma recently added the Easter Bunny to the give away basket. I'm not a big saver, so it's highly unlike me to dive in and rescue something my kids are ready to pass along, but there are far too many precious memories attached to this guy. Since I love Dr. Suess books, I decided he should live in our homeschool room, so my husband posed him in the window above the homeschool room door, and this is my view everyday from my chair.</div>
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It was a beautiful day, so we sat down at the pond behind the library for our first reading of Rag Coat together. Several visitors showed up to join us!</div>
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And in fact, quilting served as the inspiration for many of our projects. We loved the book The Quilting Bee by Gail Gibbons. Following a pattern from the book, I cut out pieces to the Pine Tree quilt block out of construction paper and let Emma put them together like a puzzle.</div>
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Emma worked to create a paper quilt!</div>
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She also watercolored a rag coat, which we cut out and used as the cover of our lap book for this unit.</div>
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Emma had very specific plans for her rag doll. We googled "images of rag dolls" and combined several of the ideas we found. First, we went to the fabric store and she selected a delicate, light blue fabric and some pretty lace trim. I stitched the trim to the bottom edge of a rectangle while Emma ran a gathering stitch around the edge of a muslin circle. We placed a ball of fiber-fill in the middle of the circle, then drew up the stitches to create a ball shape for our doll's head. We placed the ball about 1/4 of the way down from the top edge of our fabric, and used that as a guide for where to embroider the doll's face using DMC floss. This photo shows the placement of the head in relation to the rest of the "body". (The head gets wrapped completely inside the blue fabric.)</div>
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At that point it was just pretty much a matter of gathering the fabric and looping ribbon to make it look like a doll. I tied a knot around the head, then used the ends of that ribbon to loop around and form "arms". There is no right or wrong, and we had to work with it for a few minutes to get the proportions correct. We hand stitched one more short length of lace around the top of the head to make it look like a bonnet.</div>
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She calls the doll "Bluebell" and is quite fond of her. She is a sweet keepsake from this row.</div>
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We also embarked on a bigger sewing project. I love to quilt, so I gave Emma a pack of charm squares (5 inch squares of fabric) and let her lay them out in a pattern for a mini-quilt. I embroidered her name on a block of fabric as well. I was NOT ALLOWED to give input or advice on fabric selection or arrangement. ;-) (Nearly impossible for me to keep my mouth shut!)</div>
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Her mini quilt turned out GREAT and we decided to turn it into a huge floor pillow. She chose a pale blue fuzzy fabric for the backing so it will be super soft and cuddly. I machine quilted this top and bought a pillow insert.....but this project is still sitting on my sewing desk waiting to be finished. It isn't for lack of her asking. ;-( Unfortunately, this is the fate of many a quilting project....</div>
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We also took to the kitchen a bit for this row. I found a recipe for Coal Cookies at <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/coal-cookies-324795?layout=desktop" target="_blank">food.com</a>.</div>
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At week's end, we made an Appalachian supper......a wonderful casserole (with a few slight changes) and an apple crisp from the FIAR cookbook. The casserole was a huge hit with my family.</div>
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I went to www.teachcoal.org and requested some coal samples. They came very quickly in the mail, and I was so impressed by their generosity. We watched several videos on youtube about coal mining, and it was very interesting to compare the various types of coal. We also googled and gathered some facts so we could do some US map work about which states produce coal.</div>
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<a href="http://blog.aussiepumpkinpatch.com/2010/08/school-plans-rag-coat_16.html" target="_blank">Aussie Pumpkin Patch</a> offers some wonderful printables for this book, as well as Homeschoolshare.</div>
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We studied Joseph's Coat of Many Colors in Bible this week, and made a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two stories.</div>
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We listened to dulcimer music on YouTube (LOVED this) and enjoyed it so much we studied a bit about how dulcimers are made.</div>
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We also listened to Dolly Parton sing "Coat of Many Colors"...brought me right to tears!</div>
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Emma did a beautiful narration of this book for me, and I sat at the keyboard and typed what she said word for word. I printed that on pretty paper and placed it in our scrapbook. This is such a touching and poignant story, and to read it through the most precious words of a six year old is a very special treasure.</div>
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Again, I'm so happy we did not miss this book. There is a quiet gentleness to it that made me really stop and give thanks for many simple pleasures in our lives.</div>
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We rowed Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson the week of September 15-19, 2014.</div>
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I originally planned this row for this week because I thought it would be "light". There are not quite as many suggestions in the FIAR manual, and since we had just completed three activity-heavy book studies in a row, I thought this would be a bit of a break week. As we got going, the ideas kept flowing, and it was anything BUT a "light" week! But we sure had fun with the color purple.</div>
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We started Monday morning with a grape juice snack. (She wasn't a fan.)</div>
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We did a lesson from art projectsforkids.org in our art journal about drawing a house with some perspective. She did great, and even colored hers purple!</div>
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This precious, classic tale is about a little boy named Harold who actually draws the story as it unfolds. The illustrations are delightfully simple, which completely adds to the charm and character of the book. You just can't study this book without creating your own story board, so I provided the canvas (a paper roll from Ikea) and lots of purple utensils, then invited Emma to create, create, create!!</div>
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I can't believe I didn't take more detailed pictures of her completed mural. It hung in our kitchen for a few weeks, and then I chopped a few pieces out of it to put in our scrapbook. She did a great job, and to go along with this we watched videos on youtube about how crayons are made. (There are several good ones.)</div>
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.....purple water! (The purple was super dark, so we submerged another paper towel to test the color. Sure enough...purple!)</div>
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Harold draws the moon, which is rather central to the story. So, we checked out several books about the moon and studied the phases of the moon the fun way....with OREO cookies!!! </div>
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I never know if some of my ideas will "fly" or not.......For this book, I copied some of the simple illustrations onto card stock using a purple marker. I laminated the cards, and asked Emma to do some simple story sequencing with them. She did have fun with that, but the cards themselves surprisingly turned into a huge hit. We made up games all week long with the cards, and she used many of them as patterns to copy onto her "Emma and the Purple Crayon" mural.</div>
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I wish I was more artistic....I would like to attempt more story cards in the future, but this book was incredibly simple to copy and I don't think I'll get that lucky again!</div>
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We went on a purple scavenger hunt in our house. We gathered 33 purple items!! That was more than I had hoped for. We put them in a tub, and spent days classifying them in all different ways. (This concept went along nicely with our science studies, because we have been discussing animal classifications.) We also played several rounds of a memory game. I would ask her to choose a few items to place in the bucket. Then she would close her eyes and I would remove one item. She would have to study what was left in the bucket and tell me which item was missing.</div>
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Anyway, it was fun to have a collection of "purple junk" on the table all week, and at our purple party Friday night we spread it all out and used it as our centerpiece!</div>
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I gave her a piece of heavy card stock and encouraged her to just paint something abstract, but she wanted to make "something real", so we googled lots of pictures of purple things. She settled on a painting of a purple martin bird. I get a real kick out of how serious she takes things.</div>
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For me personally, the highlight of the week was <span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>PAINTING PURPLE PUMPKINS</b></span>!!! Pumpkins were just starting to make an appearance at the stores. My sweet mom went out looking for pie pumpkins. (Not too big, not too small.) I pulled out several shades of purple acrylic paint and she set to work. I loved, loved, loved this.</div>
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We delivered one to a special friend as a birthday surprise. The other two are currently living on my mantle in a pile of fall leaves. They make my soul SING every time I look at them!!!</div>
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Chicken pot pie, Cheeseburger pie, and strawberry pie.</div>
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I'm finding that as we finish a row, I have a hard time placing the books back on the shelf. I get really attached to the stories and all the fun activities. I'm so thankful for the memories we are making! I have read Harold books to my kids for years, but now they are special to me in a whole new way. The good news is there are so many more fun books still to row!!</div>
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Papa Piccolo is about a cool and groovy tomcat who is befriended by two frisky, live wire kittens he dubs Marco and Polo. Piccolo's friends observe as the adventurous kittens transform the easy going, independent alley cat into a compassionate, nurturing father figure. This book has everything going for it....a funny and touching story line, bold and bright illustrations, and a peek into the fascinating culture of Venice. There was lots to learn, and we enjoyed every minute of it.</div>
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For starters, we love most anything Italian, so this book offered tons of FOOD fun! On Monday, I made pizza puffs for lunch. We use this recipe often for party appetizers because it is easy, inexpensive, and versatile.</div>
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We used a tutorial from <a href="http://artprojectsforkids.org/portfolio/another-folk-art-cat/">www.artprojectsforkids.org</a> to learn how to draw a cat. We put our own spin on it by adding colorful ribbons to the background, just like one of the illustrations in our book. We drew the cat with Sharpie, colored with oil pastels, and then watercolored over the entire thing.</div>
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Our completed masterpieces!</div>
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We read tons of books about cats from the library, and one day she was inspired to make a new toy for our cat, Leo, out of ribbon and string. (He is old and half grumpy, so he wasn't as smitten with this as she hoped he would be!)</div>
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One of our favorite activities was this color wheel from <a href="http://mamajenn.com/blog/2010/01/printable-color-wheel-activity.html" target="_blank">mamajenn</a>. Don't miss this if you row this book! We printed the color wheels from her site, placed them in page protectors, and added designated drops of colored water to each circle. </div>
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Then, we covered the page with a paper towel and viola! A color wheel! We started with the secondary colors....</div>
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Then we took inspiration from www.deepspacesparkle.com and made a color wheel flower using paint chips. (<i>My husband went with me to Home Depot the day I got all these paint samples, but he was MORTIFIED that I was taking them to use on a craft project, and he wouldn't even stay in the paint department with me. All I could think about were the seven million pinterest ideas I see using paint chips, and I had to wonder how many women go in there on a daily basis to raid the paint samples. Not that two wrongs make a right.......</i>)</div>
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We naturally had a big Italian meal one night to celebrate. We used a Beanie Baby that looked like Papa Piccolo for our centerpiece, surrounded by some very special shells. Sissy brought these back to Emma when she visited Venice Beach last summer, so it was very exciting to have an authentic Venetian table!</div>
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<i>(Meet the World's Greatest Dog, by the way. This is Penny, the wonder hound, and she is part of every. single. thing. we. do.)</i></div>
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Talking with our hands, like the Italians do! (Except the boys. They don't talk, with their hands or otherwise. They are teens!)</div>
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And she made a Papa Piccolo finger puppet! How precious is this???</div>
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We also got a great book from the library called <u>Why Do Cats Meow?</u>, which prompted us to make cat fact cards for our lap book. We learned some interesting trivia from this book.</div>
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Another good book is <u>Things That Come From Italy</u>. We had quite a list going of inventions that originated in Italy.</div>
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This printable from the internet was a great go-along for this story. (Sorry I uploaded these sideways!)</div>
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One night the boys had an activity planned, so Daddy and I took Emma to a fancy Italian restaurant, just the three of us. It was a fun date night, and Emma had just learned how to fold fabric napkins at her Faith Keeper's meeting, so she entertained the waiter by making napkin roses. </div>
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Our final project for this unit was a Venetian architecture project I found at <a href="http://laughpaintcreate.blogspot.com/2010/09/venetian-architecture.html" target="_blank">laughpaintcreate</a>. (She has a toddler version of this craft on her site as well that is also fantastic.) I absolutely loved this project and thought it turned out really well, but it was fairly involved and we used large watercolor paper, so we spread this one out over three days and listened to a book on tape while we worked. If I had more wall space in my homeschool room for display, I would frame this one.</div>
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* We listened to Vivaldi's piccolo concerto on you tube.....it is lovely.</div>
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* Watched a great video on you tube (Kids Travel Series) about Venetian culture and travel.</div>
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* Made a map of Italy. (There are some good printables at mamaslearningcorner.com)</div>
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* Did another simple "how to draw a cat" lesson from pinterest.</div>
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* Checked out a video from the library about how to learn Italian.</div>
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* Playing hopscotch! It was tooooo darn hot that week, but she keeps asking, so eventually we will go out and do this.</div>
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* Painting upside down under a table. We did read a book about Michelangelo, but we did so many other painting projects this time we didn't get around to this one.</div>
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* A cute 3-D Venice canal project from Crayola.com</div>
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We will save some of these other ideas for when we row Clown of God!</div>
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I'm closing with one more recipe. This is one of our family's favorite meals. I'm always looking for quick and easy weeknight ideas, and since pasta is a popular staple, I'm sharing this fun spin on baked spaghetti. This recipe came to me from my friend Leslie, one of the best cooks I know! Whether you happen to be studying Italy or not, perhaps someone will be inspired to give this one a try! ;-)</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">LESLIE'S BEEF ITALIAN BAKE</span></u></b></div>
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We did this for our second week of school, August 25-29, 2014.</div>
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Emma found a little surprise on her desk first thing Monday morning. I ordered this 3-D Eifel Tower puzzle from Amazon, not knowing what to expect. The brand is Daron, and I was very impressed. </div>
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It is challenging to put together, but in a fun way, and a six year old is completely capable of fully participating. I was worried I might have to assemble the whole thing and that she would get bored just watching. She definitely needed supervision and direction, but she helped and stayed interested the entire time.</div>
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The end result was awesome, and was used as a centerpiece all week. It now "lives" permanently on top of the bookshelves in our homeschool room. It is a very good quality puzzle, and I would order other landmarks in the future to go with other books.</div>
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We found so many cute craft projects to go along with Madeline.</div>
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The paper flowers were one of my favorites.</div>
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Emma did these all by herself. We used pipe cleaners for stems and buttons for the centers and I think they turned out darling.</div>
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The toilet paper tube craft came from Pinterest. We used tempera paint on ours.</div>
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This yellow hat is made from a paper plate, paper bowl, and red ribbon. She painted with Tempera paints and cut out the center of the plate. I helped with the hot glue to assemble. (Again, idea from Pinterest.)</div>
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I found a "How To Draw The Eifel Tower" tutorial online to use in our art journal. To be honest, she didn't love this one, but I think it turned out cute. She was disappointed that her lines were not perfect, and also that it did not have any color, so we added fireworks in the background. That seemed to cheer her up a little.</div>
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We got LOTS AND LOTS of Madeline books and videos from the library to keep us busy all week. We had lots of fun with rhyming words in the books, and she was allowed to watch the DVD's in the afternoons when we were finished with school. This was my favorite book, and we used it to make a cute lap book feature about proper manners.</div>
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FOOD was another big element for this row. One day for lunch we ate the French flag....blue, white, and red. (Assorted berries, french bread slices with white cheese, and summer sausage slices.)</div>
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Emma made a quiche for dinner one night, from our Five In A Row cookbook. I thought the family would love this....my husband and boys all love ham and eggs, but I was the only one in the entire family who enjoyed it. Crazy! How can pie crust be bad???</div>
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I absolutely LOVE how much Emma enjoys being in the kitchen. We cook together a lot, although she often far prefers making the recipes to eating them. (Sigh!) Picky, picky!!</div>
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This Eifel Tower lunch was a hit. (Thanks, Pinterest!)</div>
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One afternoon I took her to LaMadeleine for lunch. (She ordered pizza at the french restaurant.) While there, we happened to see one of my very good friends from high school who I very rarely see, so we all had a lovely lunch together. That was a wonderful surprise!</div>
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The pancake maker is tied to the stove all night while the rest of the family sits around the table eating them up as fast as she can fry them. My Mom is a great sport!! This is a holiday tradition for our family, so to have a "reason" to eat them in August created a thrill in our household. Ha!</div>
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We proudly added our Madeline story disk to our map at the end of this row. I could have camped here for several more weeks....the Madeline stories are all so sweet.</div>
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Another great week in first grade!</div>
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Our first "row" of first grade was Night of the Moonjellies, by Mark Shasha. This is a touching story of a seven year old boy, Mark, who works at his Grandmother's seaside diner, MarGra's. Mark finds a moon jelly on the beach one morning, and Grandma takes Mark on a special adventure one night after the diner closes to release the moon jelly into the night sea. </div>
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I got all creative at lunch one day and made jellyfish and starfish.</div>
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But she promptly disassembled her lunch and made it into a horse instead!! Ha!</div>
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(Emma is a horse FANATIC, and although she enjoyed studying sea animals this week, this lunch proves where her heart is.)</div>
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We had great fun making watercolor jellyfish one afternoon.</div>
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We also followed a simple recipe for making "sea glass" hard candy. I'm generally intimidated by using a candy thermometer, but this recipe was super easy and quite delicious! (It was also very pretty!)</div>
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Stir together in heavy saucepan over MEDIUM heat until dissolved. Use wooden spoon to stir. Attach candy thermometer and let sit until mixture reaches 250 degrees (don't stir). Add two drops of food coloring....don't stir....and continue to let sit until it reaches 300 degrees. Remove from heat and stir in 1/4-1/2 tsp of flavoring. (We used 1/4 tsp of orange extract.) Pour onto well greased metal pan and cool completely. </div>
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Cover with wax paper and tap with hammer to break into pieces. Place pieces in zip lock bag with powdered sugar and shake to coat. This gives the candy a dull, weathered look, like sea glass.</div>
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By far the BIG HIT of our study this week was swimming with moon jellies! I bought glow sticks at the dollar store and sealed them in bags of water to make "moon jellies". We floated them all in the pool after dark one night and the kids all jumped in to swim. Emma was DELIGHTED. The night ended with the boys having moon jelly fights in the pitch dark across the pool volleyball net! It was a blast!!</div>
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We bought sea-themed paper goods from the party supply store, and decorated our table with homemade hermit crabs (from Kiwi Crate), our sea glass candy, and our jellyfish in a bottle experiment. We also hung art work from this unit in the window and dangled homemade jellyfish crafts from the chandelier.</div>
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Seaweed Salad (Cole slaw)</div>
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Ocean Water (blue kool-aid and Sprite)</div>
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Sea horse project compliments of <a href="http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/" target="_blank">art projects for kids</a>.</div>
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Throughout the week Emma colored and painted various fish and sea creatures from coloring sheets. We combined them onto a sea mural, and also made aquariums out of paper plates (via pinterest).</div>
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Chose jellyfish and lobsters as two animals to study more closely.</div>
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Learned the six New England states and located them on the map.</div>
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Focused on the character trait of responsibility, and made a book about things we are responsible for.</div>
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We celebrated this fun row with a field trip to the aquarium with our good friends. I found a scavenger hunt printout to take with us. We found lots of animals on the list.....but not a single jellyfish in the entire aquarium! Go figure! (<i>Moonjellies are technically not jellyfish....they do not have tentacles and do not sting, but they are bio luminescent creatures that look very similar to jellyfish.</i>)</div>
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Emma loved the polka dotted sting rays. They were so fluid and graceful!</div>
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We were also tickled to see a sloth because we just read about sloths in our morning devotional. We are working through a Bible study (My Big Book of 5 Minute Devotions: Celebrating God's World) that uses all different animals to teach godly character qualities. We read about the sloth to teach us patience! Naturally! This guy does look rather patient.....</div>
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I have two daughters who are almost 16 years apart. That means I get to do senior year of college and first grade in the same year. :-) Yes, our family is spread out, but that keeps life interesting. These two are peas in a pod. Emma ADORES her older sister, and having her home from college during this past summer was a little slice of heaven. Before Sissy left, they took a trip to the pet store and each bought a Beta fish. Hannah got to drive cross country with hers nestled in a cup holder. </div>
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Emma brought hers home, named it Rainbow, and set it up as our first grade mascot!</div>
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We made some changes to our homeschooling room this year. I will probably share more about his space later on, because I absolutely love reading about other people's homeschool spaces. Primarily, we put in new flooring and set up a new desk system from Ikea. This space has evolved a lot through the years to meet our constantly changing needs. It was VERY fun to make it first grade friendly!</div>
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I had a few treats waiting on the desk the first day of school. We kicked off week one with a Seashore theme, so I bought a bag of Swedish Fish to give her. However, they were eaten by teenage boys the night before! ARGH! Candy can't ever be hidden well enough in this house to be truly safe. They were super lucky I happened to have an unopened package of goldfish cookies in the pantry to substitute! :-)</div>
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I have had this easel from Ikea for a year or two, unopened. I finally created a space for it and set it up in the school room. I think she will enjoy using it this coming year.</div>
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I sent her on a little scavenger hunt, leaving notes in all her books and little "stations" I had set up around the room. As we worked our way through the hunt I introduced her to all the fun things we will be doing in the coming year.</div>
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The night before first grade we hit a major milestone....she lost an upper tooth!!!</div>
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My son's bird, Bella, came in for a visit on Day One.</div>
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<a href="http://www.fiveinarow.com/" target="_blank"><b>FIVE IN A ROW</b></a> - This is an exciting, literature based, multi-sensory approach to learning. There are four volumes of Five In A Row, and this year we will work from Volumes 1 and 2. "Rowing" a book means reading the same book five days in a row, using the story as a springboard for various areas of study (history, culture & geography, math, science, language arts, and fine arts). Although the manual is the only necessary component for using FIAR (other than the literature books themselves), we like to add in lots of hands on projects, recipes, crafts, and some lap booking. </div>
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Looking forward to another exciting and productive year of learning and growing together!!</div>
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Hi There! My name is Brooke, and this is our story.....</div>
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We are blessed with four amazing kids. Our oldest is a senior in college, studying to be a nurse. She is far from home, and we miss her bunches, so visits home are always special times. We began homeschooling when she was in second grade and have never looked back.</div>
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Our two boys are in high school. I used to keep a family blog, but now the boys are at an age where they don't particularly love having their pictures constantly taken and stories about them recorded daily. They both attend homeschooling classes outside of our home; each in a setting that caters to their particular needs and interests. They study hard and play even harder, and while I am far from a homeschooling expert, I can honestly say that the high schooling years are GREAT!</div>
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Our youngest is the exclamation point at the end of our family. She lives life to the fullest with a joyful boldness. She attended mother's day out, preschool, and kindergarten at a local church. This year marks the start of our homeschool journey with her as we blaze a trail into first grade, primarily using FIVE IN A ROW as our curriculum to guide us. This blog will record our adventures together.</div>
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I love the homeschooling life.....reading, creating, experiencing, DOING. It isn't always easy, and it's hardly ever tidy, but I treasure the memories we have created through the years, and am exceedingly grateful for the bonds this lifestyle has created in our family.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by to follow our story.....</div>
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