Home-SU-Cool

This year we decided to do something for Easter. I thought this project was pretty cool. We got the idea from the MFW TM (Adventures) and also from this website . First, the ingredients . You will need: 1 cup whole pecans (we used raw peanuts that we roasted on stove) 1 teaspoon vinegar 3 egg whites a pinch salt 1 cup sugar a zipper baggy 1 wooden spoon scotch tape Bible Preheat oven to 200F (I followed MFW TM and not the site) Ian was our bible reader 1. Jesus was beaten Place nuts in zipper baggy and let children beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces.  Explain that after Jesus was arrested.  He was beaten by the Roman soldiers.  Read: John 19:1-3 The kids had the most kick out of this. Until the last step, someone was still having a go at the poor nuts. 2. Jesus was given vinegar Let each child smell the vinegar.  Put 1 teaspoon vinegar into mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus wa...

Vegetable printing. This year I'm only using one. This will look so much nicer with celery, but it works with the little stems of youcai too.         We attempt to grow carrots...hasn't sprout yet   One way to use the print And this week we were more conscious of the vegetables we eat at the table.   This is for Adventures. We found out that Abraham Lincoln is VERY VERY tall. And we read quite a bit on him, for the boy really likes him. We also finished Plum Creek! Quite a feat!!!! Very proud of him. We did more Chinese this week too and also some ICDAT (Colored pencils) And we'll be almost done with cursive. Next week he'll do "z" and we'll be done with lowercase.

  We started on Spore Math 2A this week   Reaction of vinegar and baking soda. The kids loved it     And of course, the appearance of balloons in the house (even for experiments) means, they get to play with them!!! This week, we learnt about the pioneer trails and the hardships on them. We also learnt about Jesus being the Servant. We went back to ICDAT too, which we have put away for WAY too long. And we continued on Plum Creek

PRESCHOOL     And we read The Gingerbread boy MANY times and of course had to bake a SOMETHING like gingerbread boy. The kids don't like gingerbread, so we used the animal cracker dough for these.     These are the animal crackers. Girl decided she'll do it herself, from rolling of dough to cutting. I have to say, I'm VERY impressed with her work.     This happens quite often in our home. When I wake up in the morning, I see these adorable adorable things on the floor in the living room. I find them so adorable, because of the girl who would put them there.

We did the corn casserole according to TM and didn't like it as much as our own corn casserole recipe. But boy made it so he was mighty proud. We finished Singapore Math 1B and did quite a number of review tests (overall). will be going on to 2A We also continued to read Plum Creek and practiced cursive. One day Boy did all school work by himself again because I went to the doctor's.

We did the Frog Bread ( like last time) But this time we kind of feel it's a little weird to be eating the frog. =) And I made frog egg pops, using kiwi, chia seeds and mandarin oranges (just to add some more fruit) Of course we read Frog and Toad and watched all their videos on youtube. We talked and reminded about using our tongues wisely

People call it Quiet book. But since it's not that "quiet" (with the velcro) I'll call it her special book. I spent a LONG time doing it. Can't say I'm TOTALLY satisfied with it, but I'm pleasantly surprised. For writing Their FAVORITE page. The kids laughed SOOOO hard at this. I love that ice cream page I "drew" the pond scene myself on Powerpoint. SOOO proud of myself    

  Butterfly snack!   This was fun, the girls were pleasantly surprised and decided to do a zillion more.   For the preschooler   Very Hungry Caterpillar days of the week     Very hungry Caterpillar story       This was impromptu. We realized the Bs made the wings of the butterfly   Caterpillar to Butterfly craft For Adventures we learnt the verse Rev 17:14 and made the crown. We are halfway through Plum Creek and almost done with Singapore Math 1B! Yay!