MFW 1st: Week 17

This week we survived a two day snow storm. Storms don't usually effect our school day, this time we lost power one day, so no lights or internet! We still had school and we survived. 

Boo read stories about Abraham and Isaac. First, she read the story of Abraham's three visitors when Sarah laughed at the thought of having a baby in her old age. Second, she read the story of Isaac and Rebekah. She also learned to read the /oy/ /oi/ sound. We no longer use flashcards of words, but one thing that has helped is we have a workbook page where we practice reading and writing new words before she has to read them in the story.

 At the end of the week we had 2 bible stories, but Boo didn't have reading or note-booking for those. Instead she had to listen to the stories and then orally narrate it back to me. We learned about Jacob and Esau and how Jacob stole his brothers blessing and bought his birthright with a bowl of lentil stew. Her project was to make lentil stew. She did it all herself.  It was interesting. Not disgusting, but not really good either (in fact as the manual suggested we ended up adding diced tomatoes and crumbled bacon to make a less authentic tastier version) definitely not worth selling your birthright for though!

After reading the story of Abraham's servant taking camels to find a wife for Isaac we learned about camels. We learned how they store water, that some have one hump and others have 2, about their feet, and that since ancient times people have used them for travel. We looked through pictures and remembered the time we rode a camel at Creation Museum. We also used the internet to look at pictures of camels. We finally have a portable computer (no tower) w/cordless keyboard. It has come in real handy for school because we can use it at the table when we need to do research.

 

One project we did was t to push a pencil into sand to see how easily it sunk to the bottom. then we taped a quarter to the end of the pencil to represent a camel's big flat feet. It was much easier to "walk" the pencil on top of the sand without it sinking. God designed camel feet just perfect for walking in the desert.

For math we practiced addition using dice this week. Boo did several worksheets where she had to roll dice, add them up, and write out the problem. She also made a graph to show which number she rolled the most often. The sum of our dice was 9 more than any other number.