Saturday, January 8, 2011

Blogging to Bible Study Family Edition: Creation

For this first week of the Bible study I didn't give the girls a lesson each day.  We had worked on our Creation Lapbooks back in May and I know we spent some time more recently doing Creation during Bible Time.  So this week we reviewed our Creation Lapbooks

We reviewed what was created on each creation day:

Oh, daddy helped too.


Then we played our match game.  The girls have to match the picture card representing each creation day with the number glued to the lap book.



Then I decided to created yet another Muffin Tin this week.  
First I made an open faced sandwich.  I spread peanut butter on the bread first.  Then for the darkness I put chocolate frosting and for the light I put Fluff.

Then the girls watched as I "air" popped popcorn.




Then the girls crushed some graham crackers to represent dirt.  I asked the girls what we should have for day 3 (we discussed each day before deciding what was going to represent each day) and we decided on broccoli trees.  Then Tabitha suggested brown sugar for dirt.  I told her it was a great idea, but how about we crush graham crackers instead so we don't have so much sugar.  She was fine with the compromise.


Here is the complete tin.


Day 1: God created light.


Day 2: God created the "firmament" or air.  So we had air popped popcorn


Day 3 God created the land and vegetation.


Day 4: God created the sun, moon and stars.  We had chicken noodle soup as the girls have a nasty cold.


Day 5: God created the fish and birds.  I was going to have fish crackers, but our store doesn't carry any. So we opted for fish sticks.


Day 6: God created the animals and man.  We have chocolate covered animal crackers from my daughter's last fund raiser.


Day 7: God rested.  I wasn't going to do anything for this day.  But then I saw the marshmallows and thought they would make cute pillows (my hubby had been thinking along the same lines before I even asked him).

The stars were cut out of apple slices and a wrote the number on with food coloring.



They did pretty good for not feeling well.  

We also read a book we have called I Wonder Who Hung the Moon in the Sky by Moan Gansberg Hodgson.  It is told from the view point of a boy named Jared who lives in Arizona.  He wonders such things as, 
  • Did God use a crane to hang the moon in the sky?
  • Did God use suspenders to hold up the planets? and
  • Why did God make dirt?
Each one of his many questions come about in reaction to something he sees or is doing at the time.  For example he sees a crane and notices his grandpa wears red suspenders to hold his pants up.  His family gives him reasons for how or why these things happen, making sure to glorify God for his creation. 

It is a cute little book, seeing God's creation from the eyes of a child in all his innocence who tries to make sense by using what he knows.  I would recommend you check this book out if you can.

If you would like to see what others are teaching their children about creation, head on over to Butterfly Wishes and Wonderland Dreams 
I am also going to link this up to Muffin Tin Monday
Muffin Tin Monday at Her Cup Overfloweth

And Read, Explore, Learn


Shibley Smiles


School Time: Week 16 D: Dinosaurs, Dots and More

This week we started our letter D lessons.  On Monday I printed the girls out a picture of Dora to color, I even found a Dora maze for Tabitha to do.  Of course, we had our D Muffin Tin.  The theme was supposed to be picks, skewers and kebobs, but I didn't have any.  Silly me forgetting I could have used toothpicks.  I should have known better as I have made groundhog day cupcakes in the past that had groundhogs taped to toothpicks. Oh well, I still liked our D muffin tin.


On Wednesday I printed out a Dinosaur picture because the girls wanted to use the watercolor paints they got for Christmas.



Did I mention they just got these for Christmas?  And this was the first time using them.


Tabitha's did a better job keeping them clean:


As we were coloring dinosaur pictures I asked the girls if they would like to have the dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets again.  When they said yes I had this idea.  Why not do another muffin tin?  This time, though, I would let the girls help put it together instead of surprising them as I do every Monday.

First they sorted the dots:


Then they helped get the broccoli:


Amelia decided to mix her dips:



Daddy was home for a few days, so I asked him to take a few pictures of me with the girls for a change.  It also helped me focus more on what we were doing.

Calendar time:


Working on our word cards.  First I show them the word and we try to sound it out.  Then I show them the picture.


On this day we laid the word cards down.  Then we flipped them to the word side and when I gave them the picture cards they had to try to find the right word and lay the picture on top of it.


Then we checked to see if we were correct.


I wanted the girls to paint dots on paper with soda bottle caps.  Amelia wanted to paint a dinosaur.  We compromised.


We painted dots onto dinosaurs.


Amelia had a little trouble understanding to use one cap for each color.


I think it is so neat that the girls want to exercise on the WiiFit like mommy and daddy. Amelia is trying to figure out how to use the Wii remote and the nunchuck to play Kung fu:


The Wii fit is our only way to get exercise right now.

For Montessori, I brought the tonging and dry pouring back out.  With white pompoms to represent snow balls.

Amelia can use the tongs now.  



I noticed the pompoms might not be a good idea because they stick together and come out in a clump.


Some Tiny Tot pictures (oh and time with daddy)

Hannah standing only holding on with one hand.


What baby doesn't like glasses?


I just thought this was so sweet.


For our Blogging to Bible Study family edition lessons we reviewed creation.  I will share a separate post with those pictures and will include the link as soon as I have it ready.

Right now I am linking up to 

preschool corner

Tot School












   Daddy's Time Friday over at My Tot Learning Time

Friday, January 7, 2011

Welcome Weekend Blog Hop Week 10

                                       



     


Welcome to the 10th week of Welcome Weekend Hop! This hop is hosted by Always Around Boys, Purple Froggy Clay Stuff  and Tots and Me.  We love to make new friends and find new and interesting blogs. Of course, this is also a good way to gain more readership.


If you've been here before than you know it's quite simple to join this hop!

Just link up and follow anybody you wish, but if you follow the hostesses all 3 will follow you back, just make sure to leave a comment! You can follow anyone on the list through whatever network you wish.

Make sure to leave a comment to anyone you follow-be it GFC, Twitter, Networked Blogs or Facebook.




Friday Blog Hops: January 7, 2011

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