First off, there is only a little time left to vote for Grace-Filled Homeschooling for Best Encourager Blog over at the Homeschool Blog Awards hosted by The Homeschool Post! There are lots of other blogs to vote for as well in many wonderful categories. Don't forget to take time to vote for your favorites!
We also got to have a very unique field trip this week with our sweet friend Diego who is going through chemotherapy for cancer. Click on the picture to read more about that.
Here is a bit of what we did this week for school...
Little Hands to Heaven: Unit 28
We're getting very close to finishing up Grace's Little Hands to Heaven curriculum. This week we worked with
W and she loved the poem which was done to the tune of
Jesus Loves Me. This is her absolute favorite song and so learning our rhyme for the week was easy. We're still mostly doing tracing, but will be moving to more formal handwriting soon.
Grace is doing amazingly well with her reading lessons. The only problem is she thinks she can read absolutely anything now and gets frustrated when I try to gently tell her what word is correct. I'm grateful she enjoys reading and am grateful to have three girls who love the written word!.
The older girls have a class on Wednesdays. Grace and I are really enjoying our time together. We usually do her lessons in the living room and this has been a very special time for us.
Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory: Unit 10
Beth does not have a formal vocabulary curriculum for 1st grade, but I like for her to use vocabulary worksheets from a couple of different scholastic e-books. She especially enjoys the word ladders.
We continue to study the Pilgrims for history. This has turned out to be absolutely wonderful timing with Thanksgiving coming. The first time I worked through the Beyond guide with Rose I felt like the Pilgrim portion went on for a really long time. I don't feel that way anymore and I appreciate the great detail put into knowing more about the Pilgrims. I was even more grateful after I found out some of my girls' friends in traditional school are not studying any history.
I just love how Heart of Dakota bring my girls along in their walk with the Lord. In just 10 units Beth has gone from feeling as if she can't possibly understand what a Scripture is saying to openly discussing a short verse or two with me, even asking some of her own questions. Discipleship is so very important and I'm thankful to have the resource I do with these guides.
This week Beth wrote her paragraph about singing. She did a great job and then drew a picture of singing birds. In her paragraph she added that she really enjoyed singing
Amazing Grace. We heard a song this week on the radio which is fairly new but has the words, "Amazing Grace," in it. She got very excited and said, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Is that the same amazing grace I like to sing about?" What a fun conversation which led to about how God's grace is for everyone and it is the same for us all.
Preparing Hearts for His Glory: Unit 6
Although we did seem to find our stride last week we are still adjusting to the pace of this guide at full-speed. It is where we need to be as Rose is definitely ready, but keeping everything on track is a moment-by-moment task. Rose has very much enjoyed our study of the Ancient Egyptians. She said to me more than once this week how sad it was that they thought there were so many gods and weren't interested in knowing the One God who is true. Hieroglyphics have been enjoyable to study and she even wrote Deigo a note in hieroglyphics for him to decipher with a key she made.
We have continued to work through our new vocabulary curriculum, Vocabu-Lit and I have found this to be a favorable change over Wordly Wise. Rose has also said how much she is enjoying this change.
A fun activity each day for Rose is her history notebooking. She enjoys art so very much and this week she drew the Sphinx and Joseph using Draw and Write Through History. She is very precise and the only trouble I ever have for this assignment is when she becomes frustrated at the lack of perfection in her art. She is, however, becoming more patient with herself every day.
I'm so glad that you're blessed with HOD! :) We enjoyed our time when we were "HODers." :)
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