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

MFW Adventures, Week 6

Yes, I am definitely behind on updating. lol Bare with me, please! We are actually about to begin week 8 if that tells you anything. So I will do my best to get caught up quickly. :)

Our week 6 was a lot of fun just like the previous weeks. We are thoroughly enjoying My Father's World Adventures. Not to mention, we are learning so much and not dreading our days...except maybe, math! Ha!

Here are the highlights of our week:

Bible:

Verses we learned about and discussed this week:

• Memory Verse: John 6:35
• Exodus 16:2-4
• John 6:5-13, 26-35

What we learned about and discussed:

• Praying when we need something
• We talked about manna (God's special bread)
• Miracles and the meaning of miracle
• Jesus feeding 5,000 men plus the women and children with 5 small loaves of bread and 2 fish
• About the boy sharing his lunch with Jesus and how we should never ignore Jesus..that we don't know what might happen when we listen and obey
• Jesus is the Bread of Life...he is the food for our spirits
• Just like our bodies have to be fed with food to be strong, healthy, and energized, our spirits need to be fed with Jesus every single day to make it in this hard, dark world.

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

History/Geography:

This week we read from American Pioneers and Patriots about:

• Pioneers from Holland (Dutch pioneers)
• Their settlement was originally called New Amsterdam which later became what we now know as New York City.
• They brought cows, sheep, and pigs to the new world.
• That they made butter from the cows' milk.
• That the boys' job was to herd the cattle out away from the settlement for food.

Our read-a-loud for weeks 7 and 8 was The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh.

We watched videos on modern day dairy farms. If you are interested, go here.

While reading the book, The Courage of Sarah Noble, we read a lot about Sarah keeping her courage as she spent a lot of time reminding herself of what her mother would say over and over again to her. So I wanted Little Man to understand that ultimately, our courage, bravery, and strength come from God. There was no better way than to go straight to God's Word. Each paper hanging is a different Bible verse declaring what God says about strength, courage, and bravery.

Then we made butter! We took turns shaking, shaking, and shaking some more!

Love this picture!

Shake, shake, shake!

Shake some more!

And wha-la, we have butter and buttermilk! This was really neat!

Okay, so Little Man tries the buttermilk and decides that he didn't like it.

Then he had a Ritz cracker with the butter on it. At first, he gave it the thumbs down. Then I sprinkled it with a little bit of salt and he thought that was awesome!

Science:

We learned about yeast and that it is alive. It feeds off sugar. Little Man experienced it's texture and it's smell. He thought it stunk! lol Now, I on the other hand, love the smell of yeast.

 

Other happenings this week: