Last week we had our friends and their
traveling zoo come to visit all the way from California. We haven't seen each other in a little over a year. Strange thing was, it felt like last week. That's the thing about good friends, time and space don't separate you. (Of course, Instant Messenger helps :-)! ) We had a great time playing and just visiting. She also brought me a new curriculum (she is the curriculum Queen ) which I am using for the remainder of the year.
What we were using as our "Core" studies was very thourough, indeed. But B.O.R.I.N.G. I could hardly make myself read it everyday so I can't even imagine what the kids were thinking. Not to say the material was boring, it was the Bible and we were studying some really action packed and adventurous parts. The boys really loved the conquests of the Isrealites and the Judges and David and Saul's struggles. But that's all the curriculum had us do is read (oh and the salt dough map mentioned previously!). We need stuff to do. So in future posts we will chronicle our weekly adventures with the new and improved curriculum.
This week is a light week. We have put aside everything and are working on a Christmas Lapbook/Notebooking project from Hands of a Child. We have read about how Christmas traditions started and their meanings, connected the prophecies in the Old Testament to the New Testament's account of the birth of Christ, and the coming of John the Baptist. We will be adding more over the next several days.
This is what else we did:
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| We also practiced for the upcoming musical |
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| Our church's Live Nativity |
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| Bananagrams, one of our favorites |
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| played some games |
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| made one boy very happy by burning his completed math workbooks! |
Quite a wonderful week.
