Adventures in My Fathers world week 3

last week was so great!. I am really loving this curriculum and homeschool in general. I am so glad God is confirming our decision to homeschool and our choice of curriculum. This week was all about Jamestown and Captain John Smith and more Science with air. We finished up a book about John Smith and then started Squanto and finished that book this weekend. Now we can fit in more fun books for week 4 since we are ahead in our reading.


our science game with air to move a piece of paper, we raced several times and this actually kept Keely Busy for quite some time.
In Bible we learned that we are to be like Jesus and talked about WWJD and made a necklace with a kit Molly got for her birthday (thanks Ruth and Miriam)
here we learned that air can hold things in place, even upside down like this cup full of water covered with cardboard. Molly was pretty impressed when the cardboard held in place.
we learned how the people in Jamestown mostly had corn to eat and made corn bread, so we made some that night for supper to go with our chilli on baked potatos
Molly decided she really dosen't like cornbread because it wasn't sweet enough. I said be glad you don't have to eat it all the time like the people in Jamestown did.
Also in Bible class this week we made a sun catcher for the window using crayon shavings with the name of JESUS on it. Keely thought it was fun to blow on the shavings and have them all go flying
This was a little craft I threw in that I found in a book from the library, it's a Jamestown house, but it really was a little dificult and messy.
Keely with one of her new educational toys - she actually played with this one for a while and was able to stack it easily.

Last weekend we took Molly's ships from week 3 and sailed them on the Wisconsin River from Council Grounds State Park, but the water wasn't moving much and we didn't really see them go far. Next week in Native Americans and Molly is excited she is already planning on being Pocohontas for the Halejuah Ho Down this year.

Adventures in My Fathers World week 2

Science Experement - is an empty bottle really empty?

Making the sail for the Santa Maria

Molly's ships

We have now finished our second full week of school and I am loving it, and Molly is for the most part lol. We both have to get used to our new schedule and new teacher. I have been getting some of "that's not how we did in school" but for the most part things are going well. I have to say for me I am loving it and wish I had started homeschooling sooner, but I guess this was God's plan for our family. This week we study Christopher Columbus and his voyage from Spain to North America. We made boats to sail representing the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. We also studied the song "God Bless America" and began our study in science on air - we did and experement with an empty bottle to see if it was really empty or not. Conclusion - it was full of air. We also began our study on the names of Jesus "The Lord Saves"

Adventures week 1

Science experiment

Special project Name Bracelet - we didn't have letter beads, I just wrote with a sharpie on some.

Keely Beading hers

Molly beading her bracelet.

What a good week we had I am loving Homeschool and I think Molly dose too. In our first week we learned all about the American Flag, the Pledge of Allegiance and Leif Ericsson and the Vikings(not the ones in purple and gold. We made special name bracelets to remind us of the importance of a name and how special Molly is and how we chose her name. We also had our first science experement, something Molly had been waiting for, we determined if salt made things float more or not. We have a book basket time where Molly gets to browse books related to what we are studying.

My Father's World Day 1

Our Time line

Homeschooling with a 2 year old

Berry Delicious Flags

Well today was our first day incorporating our main curriculum. It's called Adventures in My Fathers World. Today we study the pledge of allegiance and the United states Flag. We made a snack today with yogurt and berries to resemble the flag, this was a big hit and Molly asked if we got to make snacks everyday - thankfully no, but we do have activities scheduled often. We also added to our timeline - I had to redo because I made it on Friday with black electrical tape for the line and when we came down it had come off. All I could think of to get it up quick was ribbon and of course the only color I had enough of Was lavender. Our spacing isn't exactly accurate, but I need more space for the years we are study and Molly got to put on the current year, Genesis 1:1, birth of Christ, a ? at the end and A new heaven and earth. We ate lunch outside and then this afternoon headed outside again with a snack and our chapter book about a viking adventure. As you can see we are busy - especially Keely.

Reviving the old blog

This is Molly's daily work - I can add to the boxes whatever we need for the day and we should know where all her books are

This is our tv for math and Art dvds , reading for fun stuff and my keely Tower where I am keeping all the things to pull out to keep Keely busy

our chalk board wall and arts and crafts station

Our White board from Home depot cut to size for me for $12

our long desk with 2 work stations, 1 for me and one for Molly and our book shelf with top for book basket selectons

Molly's first day of 2nd grade picture

Well I figured it was time to start posting again - it's been awhile and we have the website http://mcginnfamilyhappenings.shutterfly.com/ where I can add a lot of pictures without a lot of time but with homeschooling now this is the perfect place to highlight what we are doing in at the 4th Street Christian Academy - that's the name Molly decided on for our school and we are meeting in the basement. Here are a few photos from our first day I sent the girls out the front door to walk to school(around to the back door). We are using My Fathers World for the bulk of our curriculum with math-U-see for math, handwriting without tears.

Christmas

We had the most wonderful Christmas this year. The kids are good ages for all the Christmas fun. We had both sets of parents over and my brother-in-law and his family. Molly was incredibly thankful for each and every gift, and truly enjoyed being a giver and even delighted in Keely's joy over gifts. They loved everything they got, we had a birthday cake for Jesus, and kept busy all day and every day since with all the new toys and crafty things that have entered our house - between grandparents, uncles, great grandparents, and us they want for nothing. Molly's favorites were - American girl doll from grandma(it helps that she works for them) and Skateboard from Nana, we got her a scooter that hopefully she will enjoy more this summer. Keely seems to like it all - she got a bitty baby from grandma and her own computer from Nana and a power wheels 4wheeler(thanks to grandmas Mattel discount) from us. There was simply too much to list it all, it's a good thing we cleaned house before Christmas.

Merry Christmas

Molly's school program was Friday and on Sunday her Sunday school program. Here are a few pictures and one with their Christmas dresses from Grandma.