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We'll be on vacation!! When others were snowed in, having their winter breaks and all the other Jewish holidays, we had school throughout. Now it's our turn to take a break.   It'll be wonderful to see grannies again and when we come back, we'll be going on to P-Penguin Unit. I wish we'll have a chance to visit the zoo in our vacation, so we can see some elephants, horses, goats and of course, PENGUINS. =)     March of the Penguins would have been such a great movie for the unit...but I don't think my sentimental boy will take it. (I was bawling myself) Too much for his heart. Too long anyway. I might show the trailer h ere     Other things we would do: * Video of penguins   *Online  non-fiction story book of the penguins *dot to dot  worksheet * Itsy Book on penguin   *Color by number penguin  worksheet *VERY interesting and simple Science activities to learn about penguins   *Simple  facts *easy toilet r...

Wasn't a lot to be done in this unit. But I started giving the preschooler some letter tracing. She likes it. Also begin to teach/reinforce sequential words "first, second, third" for the word list. We really like haystacks . It was yummy! And the kids really like videos of horse birthing. (They don't find it gross at all. =P) We did not watch Flika. In fact we are trying to see how we can cut down computer time. Ian uses the computer a lot to type now. (and he types really well)

For this unit, we found TONS of WONDERFUL worksheets on this site . In fact, the Learning Page is seriously a site I would go back to again. Great resources and wonderful graphics. We'll be doing some worksheets for the K'er and some simple Math ones and tracing of the letter "e" for the preschooler (she has begun to learn to trace) Other activities/worksheets (for both K'ner and preschooler): Elephant craft using shapes Video on elephants Letter Hunt (a new page from Confessionsofahomeschooler) great stuff! Tracing "E" Connect the dots (alphabets) Shape counting worksheet Counting God's blessings  this elephant breakfast looks real cute.  I don't know if we have the time to do it but I'll post it anyway Our booklist (There were SOOO many in the forum! I chose some and also depending on the availability of them in our library) Horton hears a who Horton hatched the egg An elephant and piggie book: My friend is sad...

So. Since our last update , the tunnels have been a little different... In fact the tunnels even went though CHANGES! As in the ants would burrow, and then would fill it up and then burrow again or something. Maybe the architect had a change of mind. We observed other things. They didn't really sleep in the tunnels at first. They huddle in the bottom or on the top. Weird. And one day I had to air out the hill cos of condensation. Before I knew it, an ant escaped. I felt so bad but I had to kill it. =( First unnatural death. Then the 1st natural death happened. He bent over and curled up like a cooked shrimp. An ant kept wanting to move him away. But there doesn't seem to have any location the carrier is going. Then I saw one ant "carrying" another (biting I mean) I thought it was a fight. But he was just carrying it up to the top...hmm...Then I realized the one had one feeler off. In the fight? I can't say. Anyhows, After day....16/17, I tried...

We wanted Moo-moo, our Hershey cow to join us in the C-Cow unit. She did, but I forgot to take pics every time. We love the dairy feast. It was fun to try so many dairy products! We didn't get to make ice-cream though. Homeschooling till now has really been a blast.  Ian is learning way more than I taught. He is enjoying to write his own stories. It's amazing. He also can do a lot of Math sums. Quite amazing to me. For the Wordlist page, now I sometimes do "read the 3rd word on the 1st line" or something...Trying new things. For I know he can read all the words, but he's still learning "1st, 2nd, 3rd etc" and getting used to listening to English for instructions.

Horses are just amazingly beautiful animals! I don't get to see one alot, but these pictures make me stand in awe.   Anyhows, we don't have a WHOLE lot to the unit, but to learn the principles "to obey right away" is sometimes a difficult task for our kids...something we can continue to encourage them in this unit   Activities:  *Videos on horses   *Make haystacks as snacks  *Comparison between horses and cars  *Treasure hunt by obeying instructions  *Classification/organization of different types of animals *some nice worksheets for Horse - wordsearch , coloring *Toilet roll craft    IF we find it ok, we MIGHT watch Flicka together. But it'll be a full length movie, so I can't tell if it's ok.   Booklist (a very pitiful selection we had from our library)  Everything but the horse  Teeny tiny ernest  Twist and ernest  Horses    Bible Verse - COl 3:20

Didn't find a lot of extra stuff for this unit, but there are some good materials here that we'll use: *Videos of milking process/farm here and here (this is a very short milk production video) *cow and its products mobile here (last page) *Make ice-cream in bag (maybe?)  *Dairy Day *props for hey diddle diddle can be found here Booklist Milk From Cow to Carton – Aliki And the Cow Said Moo - Mildred Phillips  Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type - Doreen Cronin  Cows Going Past by Bruce Balan Sixteen Cows by Lisa Wheeler Mooooove Over! by Karen Magnuson Biel  The story of Ferdinand Moo Baa lalala  Cows have calves Bible Lord,I really love your law! All day long I spend time thinking about it Psalms 119:97

For Goat's Unit we talked in depth of the sacrifice Jesus took for us. I think it's worthwhile to do it. I think the impactful exercise was for the kids to write down their sins (things they do wrong) and then paste the cross over to signify that Jesus died for those sins. I might have taught the "white" in wordless book wrong...but it's fine. They got it. We did a bit of Math Drill for Day 6 too. I think I'll start to make Day 6 Book and Math Day. (since it's cold now and we can't really go out)