Back to School by Mom

After a nice break for Christmas we are back at work.  Learning our states, digging deeper into the American Revolution, learning about adjectives and adverbs, working on our reading, seeing what God's Word has to teach us, working with fractions and really getting down our multiplication tables, practicing our sign language, reading about great poets and composers, finishing up Little House in the Big Woods and beginning another great piece of Literature, getting immersed in the Westward Expansion and the life and times of the Pioneer.  Can't wait to share with you all what the next few months have in store for the children.  It won't be long before we are camping again, learning about the stars and learning about the plants and wildlife that are indigenous to our area.  We will be getting our new chickens soon and are adding to our bunch this year by taking on the task of learning to care for turkeys.  Our gardens will be planted in a few months, which the kids will help to tend.  2012 is going to be a great year.  I hope you and yours are blessed with a wonderful year.  God Bless you all!!!

 

 

Working on US States Puzzle

It's nearly complete.

Noah's is working on identifying the Mountain States

He's almost got them all.

She has them all figured out.

The Mountain States by Isaac, Noah, and Isabelle

The mountain states are Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming.  The Mountain states have the highest mountain peaks in the United States.  They also have plains and desert lands.  The word Mountain refers to the Rocky Mountains that run through all those states.  Mom says Colorado and Utah are beautiful.  We've never seen real mountains, but hope some day we can.  We think they would be real pretty.

The Ten Commandments by Isabelle

The Ten Commandments are commands from God.  We are supposed to follow them and keep his commands.  We have learned the first commandment today and it says to not have another God before me.  It means you if you care for money so much that it is first, then you have made your God money.  God should always come first.  Nothing is more important than God. 

The Armor of God by Isabelle, Isaac, and Noah

You know we all have armor that we can wear.  It is the Armor of God.  It protects us from bad thoughts and actions.  It protects us from the things the Devil wants us to do.  The shield will block the evil things the devil wants you to do.  The sword is the Bible, which is God's word.  The helmet protects our minds from bad thoughts.  The belt helps us to be honest and it is called the Belt of Truth.  And the breastplate protects us from doing bad things in our hearts.    Like if we hurt someone, we should ask for forgiveness. The shoes help us to walk the right path. If we wear God's armor it helps us to be the people God wants us to be and to be good.

Fractions by Noah

Fractions are parts of a whole.  Like when you get a pie and you cut it in four pieces and you eat two, there are only two pieces, or one half left which looks like this... 1/2 or 2/4.  Or if you eat 3 pieces of pie you would only have one piece left and that looks like this... 3/4.  It doesn't matter how many pieces you cut it into, you can still make a fraction out of it.  Like if you had 100 pieces of pie and you ate 72 pieces, you'd be very full but it would look like this... 72/100.  Those are fractions.  I like doing fractions.

The layers of the Earth by Isaac, Noah and Isabelle

The layers of the earth are crust, mantle, outer core, and the inner core.  The crust is what we live on and walk on.  The mantle is like a peanut butter sandwich because it has two layers of solid rock which is like the two pieces of bread, and it has a layer of heated rock flowing between them which is like the peanut butter.  It makes up 85% of the Earth's weight.  The outer core is 3,000 miles beneath the crust.  The inner core is very hot, somewhere between 9,000 and 13,000 degrees Farenheit.  It is a solid ball of iron and other minerals.  It was pretty neat to see all the layers of the earth. 

Adjectives by Isaac

Adjectives are describing words.  They describe nouns.  They are words like green tree, shiny spaceship, big-eyed alien.  In these the adjectives are green, shiny, and big-eyed.  The nouns are tree, spaceship, and alien.  I like adjectives because they make sentences more interesting.