His Mercy is New

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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Starting our Squirrel unit

Nature Study· Unit Studies

We actually got a head start on our squirrel-y learning yesterday! And 2 of the books that we read were SO good that I wanted to share them. Again. This first book is called Earl the Squirrel. It is written by Don Freeman, who also wrote Corduroy. Though I had never read about Earl the Squirrel, I figured if the…
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Homemade Pot-pourri

Crafts with the Kids· Five in a Row· Recipes

We started this project when we read about Paul Revere and colonial times. We learned how to make pot-pourri the colonial way! But I thought I would make a separate post, because I think this makes a great gift idea! Items needed *flower petals (fragrant flowers) *lemon or orange rind *herb leaves – I used lavendar, you can also used…
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Our week with Paul Revere & Ben Franklin

Crafts with the Kids· Five in a Row

We have enjoyed our first walk down the American History trail! I didn’t realize that I had so much to learn! Everything we learned about Paul Revere and Benjamin Franklin was pretty much new to me as well! I especially didn’t know all of the things that Benjamin Franklin did! I guess I knew the whole flying a kite in…
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