I haven't posted in a REALLY long time! I feel my blogging withdrawls... okay maybe not but I thought it would be nice to post a few pictures to let everybody know that we are still in the learning mode. I will be posting on my other blog
http://www.jonesfam02.blogspot.com/ about Nattie's birthday and a few other things. If you want to hop over there and check it out.
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| We are learning about Jesus in school and the different things that He is. We learned that Jesus is the Light Of The World so we made this "sun catcher". It was supposed to be a lot different but I had the iron on too hot and the crayons went everywhere.... so we did crayon shavings in between two pieces of contact paper and that seemed to work just fine. The girls still loved it. What could've turned out to be a disaster turned out as a success. Praise the Lord! |
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| I was trying to figure out how to get the girls to learn calendars and I found this on Confessions of a Homeschooler's site. If you go to the right her blog is linked from this blog. I love it! I ended up laminating it so all they have to do is erase the stuff, other than the numbers in the month, and write the new date in each day. It's been great to teach ordinal numbers, how to write the extended date, addition, tens place and units place, how to write out numerals in word format and how a calendar looks. Someday I will have them plan out their months and days so they get used to doing that as well, but we'll save that for a later time. |
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| Nattie putting her capital letters in alphabetical order. |
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| We were learning about air so we did an experiment where you fill a cup way full of water then you put a piece of cardboard on it and flip it upside down. The pressure of the air on the outside of the cup kept the cardboard in place. The girls were amazed. |
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| When the cardboard was pulled away by force (Daddy) water came gushing out. |
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| We are learning about Astronomy this year and the last couple weeks we've been learning about the sun. Here is our makeshift balloon solar system. The sun is first, which is not to size, but the other ones are close in size to the ratios of what they would look like next to each other. Of course Saturn is the one with the rings, and even though Pluto's not a planet anymore I put it up there anyways because it's part of our song. Maybe I should post a video of our song. I'll see if I can find it. |
