MFW Adventures, Week 8

Another wonderful week! Time just seems to be flying by! Thanks for stopping by.

Bible:

Verses:

• Memory Verse: Matthew 7:24
  Matthew 7:24-27
• Psalm 94:22
• Psalm 95:1-5

Songs we sang:

• Rock of Ages
• On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand
• The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock

What we learned and rediscovered:

• Jesus the Rock
• He's strong, can't be broken, can't be moved or pushed around, and is never bothered by the storms of life or distractions.
• About the man who built his house upon the rock. We should build our life on the Rock (Jesus) by listening and obeying to him. 
• If we build our house on the sand, when the storms or problems come...our house will fall apart or our life will fall apart.
  Where do you go when you need a safe place? You go to God which is everywhere.
• We learned about singing to God and that He loves when we do that.

Reading his Bible

We added this to his "Names of Jesus" poster.

Bible verse memorization worksheet which can be found here. His drawing is of a rock with a house on it. There's a storm and waters rising and wild which washed the house on the sand away. You can see the little man floating on a piece of the house that broke away. lol

History/Geography:

• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Franklin, printer
• Poor Richard's Almanack
• His quotes
• Benjamin Franklin as a young boy
• How he saved money
• How he discovered electricity
• How so many people respected him
• His life and his accomplishments

His notebooking page for Benjamin Franklin. He drew a metal rod (nail) with lightning striking it.

We added our Benjamin Franklin timeline piece.

Science:

• What the Earth is made of
• Layers of the Earth
• What happens inside the Earth (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.)
• Rocks and minerals
• Earth: less than 1/3 land, more than 2/3 water

We did this experiment.

This experiment is to see how the magma or liquid rock in the mantle moves around. See the swirls! The colored water is boiling hot water. The water in the coffee pot is cold water.

Then he wanted to do it again! I love that he's really enjoying this. This time we used green and much more to make it darker and easier to see.

Take a look at the green, it is all on the top...they bottom half is the clear, cold water. We talked about how hot/warm rises and cold sinks.

Feeling the top of the pot. It's warm!

Feeling the bottom. It's cold!

Inside Our Planet book, you can find it here.

You can find this here.

Art:

Having fun!

Drawing objects in our home.

Here's one object

Here's the other

I joined in the fun.

Other happenings:

The dreaded math!

Spelling test...we are still using Rod & Staff

His calendar book

Just a quick look at our wall calendar

Field Trip, Week 7

We spent this past Friday, October 14, 2011,  on a field trip and had an awesome time. It was Lone Star History Day at Heritage Village Park in Dallas. Afterwards, we went and ate at the Cracker Barrel .... Yummy!

They placed small rocks in these bottles. Then hung them in the tree for good luck.

Doctor's tools....eeekkkk!

Doctor's office while seeing patients

Doctor's office.....the skeleton was used for studying bone structure

Child's bedroom

Downtown Dallas in the background

I took a picture of this because this is the actual bathroom that a rich family build in their house about 20 years before most people had indoor bathrooms.

He had to put the telephones in timeline order. This was very interesting especially when one of the girls told me that the furthest back she could remember was one of the old cell phones. Ha, ha! Boy, I'm old!

Then he got to make his own phone. We're still playing with this even after a week. It really works! But you have to pull the string tight or you can't hear each other.

Going into the old schoolhouse.

All children up to grade 6 had class here. The 7th and 8th graders went upstairs and they were considered highschoolers. Eighth grade was the highest they went. They had pictures of the class of 1891 and 1903. It was really neat to see. I pointed out to Little Man that some of those kids were his age in the picture and some didn't wear shoes. He was amazed!

1800-1900's playground

Old church

We stopped for a break and played some checkers!

This was really neat. You can barely see it but the florescent bulb is lighting up.

She was using the static machine to make lightning. She said she had already been shocked twice that day and was scared of it now. We never saw lightning...that was okay...didn't want her to get shocked again.

Steam engine...well, kind of...once the water boiled inside, the steam coming out of the top would make it spin.

Making static

His hair was too gelled down and wouldn't stick up. Sigh!

Old bank

Old safe

Texas flag

Old cabin

Pottery barn

Garden