Hh-Horse

All of my girls LOVE horses so we've been looking forward to horse week. However it's one week before

Christmas, so we honestly spent more time doing holiday activities than thinking about horses. Despite the business of the season we did manage to finish all of our school work and squeeze in a few horse related activities.

Boo's words to remember this week were "I obey right away." We talked about how a horse learns to obey the commands of it's master right away. God wants to direct us down a good path. We should obey his commands and not doubt the direction he's leading us. We also learned and sang the song "Trust and Obey."  

We compared a horse to a car discussing the ways traveling by horse would be different. We also talked about the many ways horses have been used to help people in the past.



We did a classifying animal activity. Boo had to separate the farm animals from the non-farm animals, then she practiced classifying them in diff ways like animals that walk on 4 feet and 2 feet, long tails & short tails, etc.

We did an "H is for Horse" craft. I cut the shapes out of brown construction paper. Boo used them to build the letters, then we added a faces, hair, and tails to make a cute momma horse and a foal.

 

For a fun extra activity Boo watched her favorite horse movie after school one day, Barbie and Her Sister's in a Pony Tale. This has been one of her favorites for a while now. You can watch the full movie for free online here...   A Pony Tale

Here are some pics from our all day Christmas baking at Grandma's this week. The girls also painted ornaments. I love being able to take days like this off when ever we want, especially near the holidays.

 

 Sis Highlight:

Sis completely finished up her study of the American Revolution. We did a big review of all the facts we have learned. We don't do written tests for history or science, but she did an oral  narration for me in her own words to show all that shes learned. She talked about the 13 colonies, the patriots and loyalists, Boston tea Party, British soldiers, the war, George Washington, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I give her an A! We're loving using these American girl guides. Now we're on to the war of 1812 with Caroline.

One last project we did this week was make a quill pen like they used in colonial times. We made a scroll and used liquid India ink to practice writing our letters fancy like felicity did.  We rolled up our scroll and sealed it.  

 

Boo wanted a quill pen too so she practiced her Hh's on her scroll and drew a picture of a horse. I was actually really impressed with her horse considering she free handed it without a picture to look at.

Cc- Cow

This week we started learning Cc-is for Cow. Our words to remember were " God's word helps me grow." We learned that just like cow's milk helps babies grow and our bones grow stronger, the word of God helps
our spirits to grow.


We did a lot of phonics activities at the beginning of this week. We sang our Aa-apple song and short vowel song.
Boo used her alphabet letter puzzles and blend ladder. We played letter sound bingo. I'm surprised how quickly the reading is progressing from blending 2-3 letter sounds to reading 3-5 words at a time. Some of our worksheets like this one now has her reading whole sentences and she's doing great with it.






 For our tactile letter activity we drew the letter Cc in chocolate pudding. Who says you shouldn't play with your food!




For our story times we read these cow related books...

Boo memorized the poem "Hey Diddle Diddle," and we made a poster for our poem. You can find the free printable that we used Here . They can also be used as puppets to act out the poem.

Due to a family emergency at the end of the week we ended up cutting our cow week short. One of my favorite things about homeschooling though is that when life happens, we have the freedom to take a break and don't have to worry about the kids missing school.  We ended up skipping homemade butter and the dairy party we had planned. However Boo finished all of her book work and we did drink chocolate milk and eat cheese samples on Friday.