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Adventures in U.S. History Week 8

While it wasn't a bad week in our homeschool, it was a slightly disorganized and disjointed week.  We got everything done and had pretty good attitudes, but it just didn't feel like things ran smoothly.  Here are a few snippets of our week. Monday was a dreary, gloomy day.  In order to get some good light for reading, Miss M dragged her bean bag chair and giant teddy bear to the back door.  She sat there cozily reading a second Happy Hollisters book! Miss M's favorite way to learn a new memory verse is to write it on the white board and then erase a word at a time, reading it between each erasure and filling in the missing word. She gets so tickled when she gets towards the end and there are only a few words left. "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock" (Matthew 7:24). We learned about what it means that Jesus is our Rock and how we can build our lives on ...

Adventures in U.S. History Week 7

This week we did several activities related to Jesus as the Bread of Life.  We baked bread using the recipe in the teacher's manual (a simple recipe that has you raise the dough in a warm oven).  Miss M did most of the work herself! Ingredients for baking bread: warm water, yeast, honey, flour, salt, and oil. Miss M carefully measuring out whole wheat flour. She also made a napkin holder with bread-shaped ends declaring Jesus is the Bread of Life !  Unfortunately, we haven't used it yet since I don't have any napkins right now. In history we've been reading about the French pioneers who paddled up rivers in birch bark canoes. Miss M made a canoe out of construction paper. Although Miss M has been reading at a late-2nd or early-3rd grade level for a while now, she hasn't been particularly interested in reading chapter books until this week! She picked up a copy of The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West that had been my dad's when he was a...