Week Nine in American History with Heart of Dakota

It was a fun filled week learning about Benjamin Franklin. We learned that he worked as an apprentice at his brother's printing press. So we used these foam stamps from Wal-mart to stamp one of his maxims. The kids found out how hard it was to stamp each individual letter and also how important it is to get the letters the right way. We had a backwards letter or two :) This was a super fun project.

 

 

 

In NOEO we are learning about how a light bulb works. Here the kids are examining the filament in one.

For HOD's science we learned how complex programming robots can be. The kids each got a chance to be the programmer and the robot and had to lead the other through an obstacle course.

For Friday fun day goody bag, the kids made bookmarks at quiet time. They cut out family members names from magazine letters and things that person would like and used yarn to tie at the top. This was a great quiet time activity.

Here is a picture of Doodlebug's kickoff project for Drawn Into the Heart of Reading. He had to draw a picture of a time period in history and then add some things in the picture that didn't fit into that time period. I then guessed what the "wrong" period things were. He really enjoys historical fiction books so this is a genre we have really been looking forward to doing.

Here is the kids science pages from our spark experiment. We  had to go in a dark closet and rub a balloon on our sleeves to see a spark. They learned that the friction causes the molecules to bump together causing the spark. This is how lightning is caused in clouds...well the basic of it that is. Trying to type this as fast as my hands will allow since baby is not sleeping these days. :)

This is the science Bible verse we had this week and the kids drawings of one of Ben's experiments.

These are the books they are reading this week for their reading lessons. Doodlebugs is part of DITHOR. Polly wog's is just one that Granny got her that she is reading. Super cute story by the way.

 

Here are some photo's from our Thanksgiving day. Here is one of three cousins. Our baby America is in the middle and on either side is his cousins. Jagg 8 months and Lilah 4 months. Miss Lilah bug was born a week before America.

Here is Polly wog and Lilah bug.

Here is Inchworm giving Jagg some love. This is my sister Sarah and her baby.

That was a short review of our week. We will be taking some time off school here soon so the blog posts will be coming to an end. The month of December we are going to focus on our little family and some fun things we have planned. Will update when I can.