Category: School News

This is a very full week of schedules and appearances, we have a lot of places to be this week before our Christmas vacation begins!

1. piano lessons on Tuesday
2. Christmas program rehearsal at school for me on Wednesday
3. Thursday is a work day, a piano recital and a Christmas program at school for me. This is our big busy day!
4. Friday is my last day of work. I will be a full-time stay-at-home-school mom! So excited!!!

Besides all that was mentioned above, we still have school work to do!

Bible verse for this week is…

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” – Philippians 4:6 

Last week we started a new book, “Matchlock Gun” by W.D.E. on Wednesday (forgot to add it then) but we finished it today.

The bravery of a little boy helps save his mother and little sister while his father is away
during the French and Indian War in 1756.
Not a very big book but we enjoyed reading it.

This week we start this book by E. Forbes.

Our new Friday reading book is this one by B. MacDonald.

It’s unofficially pajama day at school today.

The only one participating is Isabel though.
She’s got her comfy clothes on and her hat, that she has worn for 2 days this week to class!

Which is alright, because about the only rule we do have is NO GUM!

Today in class Isabel was given the task of writing short character sketches from a picture she was given in her Language arts book.

The picture she was given is in the foreground and the book also gave her a series of short questions
to help her express herself through her writing assignment.
She’s been working hard on this assignment and I can’t wait to hear what she’s come up with.

If you happen to ask Isabel what her favorite subject in school is, she’ll tell you it’s science.

Since the school year began we have been going over animals. First it was mammals, then birds, amphibians, reptiles and lately we’ve been talking about animals in the ocean and sea.

Today we talked about food chains in the ocean and sea. Mainly the topic was sharks and then we talked about fishes and their different forms of defense (to keep themselves from being eaten!).

Our “Do Together” assignment was to build a food chain from the meat we had during lunch. Well, for lunch we didn’t have anything exciting, just a turkey sandwich and after some research online we learned that our turkey probably was raised at a breeder farm for maximum meat production. So with that in mind, this is what she drew…

Not all that exciting,
however we had a great discussion about other food chains besides our bred turkey.

Whenever we do any history or geography we pull out our awesome blank timeline book and fill in important dates and facts that we have discovered in our reading/learning.

Filling out her timeline book.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday.