This has been another wonderful week of homeschool!
Here is our learning chart for the week!
We had a lot of focus on the godly character trait "modesty." It was a great lesson and we really are driving home the old saying "pretty is as pretty DOES."
We really want our girls to learn to love themselves for what God made them to be and to accept themselves just as they are! I am (admittedly) a very "Plain Jane" type of woman, and I am ok with that. I could live with 3 pair of orthopedic comfortable shoes and some really broken in jeans, lol. I remember my Daddy used to always tell me "make up is to MAKE up for what you don't have on the inside." That has always stuck with me and I am not one to wear hardly any make up to this day. I hope to instill a healthy self-image in our girls (as we wade through the barrage of images targeting young girls) and teach them to value others for what they have on the inside, not for the simple packaging on the exterior!!
So, on to our lessons!!
M is for...Magnets is our {Science Spotlight} for the week!
We had a great time making this ice skating pond for our little gingerbread man to skate on (using paper clips as his skates). The girls spent a lot of time playing with this and showed it to anyone who came over!
We made a "skater dude" to ice skate around the pond on paper clips and attached a
round magnet to the ruler and moved the "magnet wand" under the paper
in order to make the skater dude skate around--so much fun!
We have since added some snow around the pond,
but I haven't gotten around to updating my picture yet.
Here is a peak at some of our other Letter M/color brown lessons from this week.
Memory Match Game
Math Game
Making a
Color Brown Book
Our Letter M printables.
Measuring.
Money Lessons.
More math.
Playing a game with money where we price different items from around our home and take turns buying and selling each item. Helps with teaching about change and the different values of each coin or dollar. Fun stuff!
Elle was just so excited, so I had to share how proud she is of her work!
Marble Painting. Simple, not messy:) and a whole lot of fun!!
More measuring!
And, of course, we visited with our beloved
alphabet box.
In it we had a magnet, mosquito, mouse, magnifying glass, mints, moose etc.
And now that our Christ-mas tree is up, I am having a hard time getting the girls to hang out anywhere else! They honestly LOVE sitting there by "their" tree and reading.
Here are some of our books from this week:
One of the great aspects of homeschooling is to be able to infuse our personal beliefs and Christian viewpoint into our lessons. It is so wonderful to use the God-lens when looking at various subjects. We had a lot of fun focusing on "ME" this week and
building godly self-esteem!
The girls had a fun time making LIFE SIZED self-portraits!! I've gotta use up that
huge roll of white
Christmas wrapping paper I bought!
And, lastly, the girls made edible self-portraits! They were fun and tasty!
Thank you so much for taking a glance at some of our homeschool activities for this week!
We really appreciate your readership and look forward to hearing from you!
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Blessings,
Aria:)
