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MFW Exploration to 1850 WEEK 18: American Revolution, Birds

Bible This week we finished revising and memorizing up to James 2:23 History We started learning about the Revolution and it was great fun!! Pages on Daniel Boone. Language We continued with Spelling power and Rod and Staff. Science This week we learnt about birds. Lil Sis did a page in the Complete Book of Science. Big Sis' page. Big Bro's page on the peregrine falcon , which he fell in love with after reading "My side of the Mountain". We learnt about flight and feathers and it was so fascinating. Here are some great videos on them. Art We are using Artistic Pursuits K-3 (Book 2) this year. We did water resist painting this week. Book Basket Books we read for leisure Big Bro Big Sis Lil Sis

MFW Exploration to 1850 WEEK 16,17: Monkeys, Aquatic mammals, marsupials, After the 7 year war

In the midst of Thanksgiving, a few weeks of illness shared among most members of the family, and some other issues, these two weeks were a bit messy. Bible We did lots of revision on James. I could not quite remember if we did any new verses. History We learnt about what happened after the seven year war and situation in Europe (like Prussia, Spain, and Austria. We got to know some of the characters who will be important people in the American Revolution. We finished Madeleine Takes Command. And we made scones with tea. =) Language We continued with Spelling power and Rod and Staff. Science These two weeks we learnt about monkeys, aquatic mammals, and marsupials These are a few pages the kids did. Big Bro's pages on dolphins  and lemurs Complete book of Science. Art We are using Artistic Pursuits K-3 (Book 2) this year. We did a warm color drawing. Preschool We took a break from Theme Pre

Preschool Thanksgiving

November is Thanksgiving Month! Books we read Door of Thanksgiving (Chinese) A real fun book!! Dress a pilgrim Worksheets for Thanksgiving Pumpkin pie with cream. Yum! Doily Turkey Baster race . So fun! Native American Hat And of course, you know what happens when little kids found feathers, right? I LOVE this !!! Baby Sis too. Coloring Worksheet More worksheets Baby Sis made a weaving mat and a handprint turket. Pilgrim girl hat More tracing and writing Sometimes we work on the Big Book Turkey puppet And of course, we used the feather to make a "quill" More pilgrim hats... We made the dancing corn experimen t. SOOOOO fun!!! I Love this idea too Counting corn Making the kernels into pop corn Count again! And SAVOR! Haha. And we had our thanksgiving feast at Grannies&#