His Mercy is New

All About FROGS

Unit Studies

Next week we are going to learn all about frogs! FUN! We may actually start over the weekend, since we have a few “holiday” outings planned for Labor Day weekend. I’m excited about this unit! A few books we’ll be reading Activities, lessons and ideas *Homeschool Share (HSS) has a frog lapbook! *Read this poem, write it in our journals…
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Another wildflower walk

Nature Study

Since it has been raining all week this is the first opportunity we’ve had to be outside at all! So, we went on a nature walk! We found lots of pretty wildflowers, but also found a few other things too! I have tried to look for the names of these wildflowers to identify them, but it is still hard for…
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Glorious Flight Fun!

Five in a Row

This week we are rowing Glorious Flight. A loooooong time ago I found these styrofoam planes at Big Lots and bought them for when we row this book. They have been in the bag in my room for many months. We finally got to use them! Daddy helped the kids put these together and we went into the backyard to…
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Glorious Flight

Five in a Row

This coming week our FIAR adventures take us into the air…learning all about airplanes and the some of the first adventurers in the air. I think our week with The Glorious Flight will be a fun week! Books we will read     Other activities and lessons *we will introduce a few names like the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart…
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Some Squirrely fun!

Nature Study· Unit Studies

Today we had all kinds of squirrely fun! First of all, we took the idea from MacBeth’s Grey Squirrel Project and had an acorn hunt in the backyard. I printed off a bunch of acorns, because we didn’t have any real ones. We also wrote the kids initals on the acorns. We gave each little “squirrel” a pile of acorns…
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