Month: November 2014

What a week!

But we are back to school and it’s hard to get back in the groove of things when we’ve been away for so long. In one more week it’ll be Thanksgiving! Which is so hard to believe. However before we get to Thanksgiving we have to get back to school!

For Bible we are in the book of Exodus reading about the plagues of Egypt. Today Isabel read about the plague of darkness in Exodus 10:8-27. In Luke we learned about the coming of the kingdom of God.

This week we started a new book in History/Geography called the “L.H.of the A.P. From Plymouth to the West” Volume 1 by D.B.

Good book so far but we’ve only read a few pages.

We worked on our map skills learning where the Untied States, Europe, India, Asia, Australia, China, Bermuda, Atlantic Ocean, London England, Plymouth Massachusetts and Salem Massachusetts. I love the fact that after we read a chapter or so, in our books we head to the map to find the locations we just read about!

We also started another new book called “The Thanksgiving Story” by A.D. This book we’ll finish by the the of the week due to it being so small.

Love the fact that all the books we read tell the same story but in a different and new way.

Our Native America prayer focus this week is the Lumbee Tribe from North Carolina.

Today we talked about Lyric verse poems and afterward I had Isabel try to write one of her own.

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In science we talked about “ocean feeding” and learned about different ways sea creatures eat. We both enjoyed learning about the humpback whale and “bubble net” fishing. We watched several awesome videos about it.

No school today due to Veteran’s Day.

No school today.

This week in school at home we will be continuing in several of our books, that we started last week, memorizing Psalm 12:15, praying for the Delaware Native American Tribe and learning about reptiles! It’s going to be a busy week with piano on Tuesday and home school science class on Thursday afternoon.

Today in class we talked about Moses and his dedication to the freeing his people the Israelites from Pharaoh in Exodus 5:22-6:12. In our reading of Luke we hear more parables told by Jesus.

Today we finished our history/geography lessons on the Incan (actually called Tawantinsuyu), Aztecs and Mayans. We had a lengthy discussion afterward about each of the societies what was good and what was bad. We also discussed how we as a society today are similar to each of these peoples.

In the back of the book is a list of further reading material, Isabel seemed very interested in learning more about them and the Spanish conquistadors that eventually took over their lands. One of the book caught my eye that gives a perspective from the Spaniards view of the native peoples in Central and South America. Might have to look into it at the library.

Reptiles include: snakes, alligators, crocodiles, tortoise, turtles and lizards.

“Catching lunch” was the topic for today’s science lesson on reptiles. Isabel learned how a snapping turtle, an eyelash viper, chameleon and a Nile crocodile lure and eat their prey.

Our readers this week:

We started this book last week and are going to finish it up on Friday.

This book we started last week as well and so far we are both enjoying it.