Spring and a fun book review
We spent a week learning about spring. Seasons are fun for all ages, and I feel blessed to live in a place that has all four seasons. The children have been suffering from spring allergies, otherwise, what a great season!
We read many books about spring (see book list below).
Some highlights from the week:
In language Tristan made a list of characteristics of Spring. He also reviewed all of his poems that he worked so hard to memorize this school year.
In Math, we worked on some Saxon math assessments and minute drills to finish up for the summer. Tristan still needs work on hammering his addition facts down. We counted flannel robin's eggs in a flannel graph nest with the girls. We are trying to incorporate Gwen into our morning. Teaching her to count in English, Spanish and French this week.
Tristan and Ana worked on a spring collage for art, Tristan first took photographs on a nature walk and once uploaded, he then copied them into a word document to make his collage. We all drew a bird on a nest of eggs. We followed a lesson from Drawing with Children, Mona Brooks for the bird.
We jumped back into our Pennsylvania history this week, we learned about the Whiskey Rebellion.
We also enjoyed a fun outing with our homeschool group at Camp Sankanac, a Christian day camp. The kids learned knot tying, orienteering and played black light dodgeball. We also enjoyed some boating, and Anastasia took a fun hayride.
Booklist from this week:
Spring, Nuria Roca
Puddle, Hyewon Yum
Naming Liberty, Jane Yolen
The Whiskey Rebellion, Katy Schiel
Mud, Mary Lyn Ray
Rain, David McPhail
Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest, Cynthia Rylant
A Nest Full of Eggs, Priscilla Belz
Poems from Robert Louis Stevensen's A Child's Garden of Verses. Nest Eggs, Foreign Lands, Rain, The Swing
Bash and the Chocolate Milk Cow, Burton Col
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Tristan chose this story for our read aloud, and we spent a few weeks reading the adventures of Bash and his cousin Beamer and a whole gang of other kids living in the small farming community in Ohio where the story is set. The story is fun and silly yet deals with the deeper issues of obedience, consequences, dealing with fear and believer's baptism. The story ends with a baptism and concludes the adventures of Bash and Beamer. All things are tied up nicely.
Though, Tristan and I agree Cole's writing pales in comparison to some of the classic authors, like Kipling, we still enjoyed the story and want to read the other two titles in this series.
It's great that this book was written about Christian kids, dealing with real life, kid situations. We enjoyed the nature element to this story. There are lots of animals and outdoor adventures. Finally, we enjoyed the characters that Burton Cole develops. Though it took us a while to get a mental picture of Bash and Beamer, (we felt like some of the other children in the story are described pretty well) their characters have deep developed personalities. By the end of the story you feel like you've known these guys your whole life, and couldn't think of anything better than sitting on the porch with them drinking chocolate milk. It's a fun story, and we would highly recommend this book.
We read many books about spring (see book list below).
Some highlights from the week:
In language Tristan made a list of characteristics of Spring. He also reviewed all of his poems that he worked so hard to memorize this school year.
In Math, we worked on some Saxon math assessments and minute drills to finish up for the summer. Tristan still needs work on hammering his addition facts down. We counted flannel robin's eggs in a flannel graph nest with the girls. We are trying to incorporate Gwen into our morning. Teaching her to count in English, Spanish and French this week.
Tristan and Ana worked on a spring collage for art, Tristan first took photographs on a nature walk and once uploaded, he then copied them into a word document to make his collage. We all drew a bird on a nest of eggs. We followed a lesson from Drawing with Children, Mona Brooks for the bird.
We jumped back into our Pennsylvania history this week, we learned about the Whiskey Rebellion.
We also enjoyed a fun outing with our homeschool group at Camp Sankanac, a Christian day camp. The kids learned knot tying, orienteering and played black light dodgeball. We also enjoyed some boating, and Anastasia took a fun hayride.
Booklist from this week:
Spring, Nuria Roca
Puddle, Hyewon Yum
Naming Liberty, Jane Yolen
The Whiskey Rebellion, Katy Schiel
Mud, Mary Lyn Ray
Rain, David McPhail
Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest, Cynthia Rylant
A Nest Full of Eggs, Priscilla Belz
Poems from Robert Louis Stevensen's A Child's Garden of Verses. Nest Eggs, Foreign Lands, Rain, The Swing
Bash and the Chocolate Milk Cow, Burton Col
e
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Tristan chose this story for our read aloud, and we spent a few weeks reading the adventures of Bash and his cousin Beamer and a whole gang of other kids living in the small farming community in Ohio where the story is set. The story is fun and silly yet deals with the deeper issues of obedience, consequences, dealing with fear and believer's baptism. The story ends with a baptism and concludes the adventures of Bash and Beamer. All things are tied up nicely.
Though, Tristan and I agree Cole's writing pales in comparison to some of the classic authors, like Kipling, we still enjoyed the story and want to read the other two titles in this series.
It's great that this book was written about Christian kids, dealing with real life, kid situations. We enjoyed the nature element to this story. There are lots of animals and outdoor adventures. Finally, we enjoyed the characters that Burton Cole develops. Though it took us a while to get a mental picture of Bash and Beamer, (we felt like some of the other children in the story are described pretty well) their characters have deep developed personalities. By the end of the story you feel like you've known these guys your whole life, and couldn't think of anything better than sitting on the porch with them drinking chocolate milk. It's a fun story, and we would highly recommend this book.
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