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I started my littlest for "planned" school. Before that she was learning from everything she does, hears, touches, and interacts with in her life. She is 3 years old. January 2015: WINTER UNIT We used the whole month for the unit and I cannot believe how much fun we had. We did about 2 to 3 activities everyday. Auntie S. wrote a great Chinese song 冬天來了and that was like our "anthem" for this month. We play/sing it often. We read these books together. They were all so fun. I got this idea from another post, but instead of printing out her copy, I made my own because I am able to color the scarfs and hats with the colors of the buttons I own. She did some coloring (more not pictured) I made snow play dough! =) I like this no-cook recipe now and I added sprinkles. She made snow men. This play dough was WELL PLAYED in the month. I found out that if we cover the playdough with wet napkin in a container, it prevented some drying ...

BIBLE We memorized 1 Cor 12:1-8 We continued to read on Luke and the life of Jesus. We also read about St Francis of Assisi And this is the song we listened to. For Lil Sis, we read about Samuel, Ruth and Samson. This is a sewing page. =) HISTORY We learnt about the castles, the knights and chivalry. We made this pop up card . Very cool. But mom did much of the work. The kids did enjoy using the "pen knife" (as Singaporeans would call it). We had the monastery lunch. We bought canned split pea soup. It is mommy's favorite soup, but none of the kids enjoyed it. I gave them crusty bread instead of dark bread. So, that saved part of lunch. We were absolutely silent for 5 minutes. The kids would not be able to take the silence for the entire lunch. After that, they said, it felt like we were mad at each other. =) Then we had the medieval meal that we did not last week. I made "hand pies", thick corn chowder (th...