Creation: Day 4 and Planetarium Fieldtrip

The girls completed Day 4 for their Bible Timeline Notebook. 

 Creation of sun, moon, and stars.

   

Day 4 template found HERE. 

To learn more about stars, we headed to the Planetarium at a local university. 

 

In front of the Planetarium

Planetarium Dome

   

The girls enjoyed leaning back in the seats, while gazing at the stars above us!  We learned a lot from the presentation about the stars and planets in our universe.

While there, we watched "One World, One Sky", a short planetarium show about Sesame Street's Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.

Creation: Days 1, 2, and 3

The girls are continuing to work hard on their Bible Timeline Notebook.  

Before learning about the Days of Creation, we spent some time discussing the meaning of "time".  It was a difficult concept for the girls to understand that long ago there was no such thing as time, no night and no day.

It was even more difficult for them to comprehend that there was "nothing'...no sun, no moon, no mountains, no animals, no people....only God. 

They were completely impressed that God created everything through his spoken word!    

It didn't take long for them to ponder the question,"Who made God?"  

Day 1: Creation of Light

They were given strips of black and yellow construction paper to divide darkness and light. 

  

  

Day 1 template found HERE. 

Day 2: Creation of Sky 

The girls used paint to separate the water from the sky. 

  

 

Day 2 template found HERE.

  

Creation 3: Creation of land with flowers and trees.

 The girls enjoyed creating a scene with many flower and tree stickers.

   

Day 3 template found HERE.

Creation Craft

The girls will be keeping a Bible Timeline Notebook to go along with their Mystery of History and Story of the World curricula this year.  They created a coffee filter Earth craft for their title page of their notebook.  

First, they drew the continents with a marker, then using water colors, they painted the continents.  

Followed by painting the oceans. 

After the coffee filter dried, they glued their Earth onto the cardstock.

Template can be found HERE. 

First Language Lessons *Printables*

First Language Lessons, Level 1, is a complete grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the student's language ability.  Izzie will be completing 3 lessons per week.  

I'm using the printable poems from Homeschool Creations, as well as, having Izzie illustrate the poems! 

 

Izzie's illustration of The Caterpillar. 

My printables for the poems...

The Caterpillar 

Work

Hearts Are Like Doors 

Days of the Week 

The Months 

 

**More to be added soon.**

First Language Lessons 1-6

First Language Lessons, Level 1, is a complete grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the student's language ability.  Izzie will be completing 3 lessons per week.  

  Izzie has completed the first 6 lessons and is really enjoying this classical style of learning!

Lesson 1:  Definition of a noun and introduction of common nouns.  

Lesson 1: Extra Practice

I created this simple handout for extra practice.  I'm no longer uploading my handouts to Scribd since they've started charging; however, this handout did not properly upload to Google Docs...the text boxes are missing and it's a little crowded.  It's completable, but not identical to the one above.  If you would like an original copy, feel free to e-mail me.  

Lesson 1: Extra Practice

 Lesson 2: Introduction to poem memorization--The Caterpillar. 

 Since we'll be practicing this poem for several lessons, I wanted Izzie to be able to use her own illustrations to help her remember the poem.  Here's a copy of the poem. 

                                                 

Izzie's illustration of poem.

 

Izzie had the poem memorized in no time!

Lesson 3:  Review definition of noun, common nouns, and The Caterpillar poem.   

 Izzie drew a picture of our family and labeled it with common nouns.  

 Lesson 4:  Introduction of Proper Nouns.

I created another simple handout for extra practice of Proper Nouns. 

Lesson 4: Extra Practice

I had Izzie highlight each capital letter to reinforce that proper nouns begin with capital letters.  

Lesson 5:  Introduction of story narration--The Rabbit and the Turtle. 

Izzie is LOVING the Draw Write Now books!! 

Her finished drawing and dictation of story.   

"The Rabbit and the Turtle"

The rabbit and the turtle raced.  

The rabbit took a nap.  

The turtle passed him and won.  

Slow and steady wins the race. 

Lesson 6:  Review definition of noun, proper nouns, and The Caterpillar poem.

To review proper nouns, she took her drawing from Lesson 4 and wrote a proper noun for each person.  

Again, she highlighted each capital letter to reinforce that proper nouns begin with capital letters.

She really enjoyed the first 6 lessons and it's amazing how much information she's retained about very unfamiliar terms! 

Storytime From A to Z: A House for Hermit Crab

I'm behind keeping up the posts for Storytime From A to Z, though, I'll be posting everything that we did in January and February, soon! So, here's to catching up!

One particular week (sometime in February) at Coop, the Storytime From A to Z letter was "H" and the book was A House for Hermit Crab.


The girls had fun water painting their Hermit Crab and decorating his shell with tissue paper, glitter beads, and stickers!

After seeing Izzie's finished Hermit at home, Mac insisted that she wanted to create one too! I helped her color, while she was busy using her fine motor skills with tissue paper!

Hermit Crab