Week 17 and 18 in American History

 

I've been lacking in getting our posts up on time lately. So here is a condensed version of our last two weeks.

We learned about Daniel Boone in week 17 of Heart of Dakota Bigger Hearts for His Glory. For week 18 scroll to the bottom of post.

 

We learned that Daniel Boone loved the wilderness and told a story of how he escaped the Natives once by swinging from a long grape vine in order to leave no tracks for them to follow. So the kids did a painting of a tree with Daniel Boone hanging from yarn to symbolize this story.

 In science we learned how bees help to pollinate flowers and other plants. In the first pic you can see our "pollen" from two different flowers. The kids took a Q-tip and went from one flower to the next and you could see how the pollen from one crossed with the other. I think they enjoyed getting to eat the tang and sugar crystals afterwards most of all, but they did learn from it too. :)

Our poem this week was Under the Tree by Richard Henry Stoddard.

Another science project we did was to learn about what mold is and how it plays an important role in the animal/plant life cycle. Here is day one. Doodlebug put cut up banana in his baggie and Polly wog put cut up potatoes with a wet napkin and lots of air.

We also learned that Daniel Boone's daughter was captured by the natives. Daniel and his friends had to wait until morning to go in search of the girl and her friends. To help concrete this story, the kids pretended to be trying to sleep in the living room while I left a trail of tissue for them to come find me in the "morning".

Here is the kids notebooking pages. I love them! Notebooking is one of my favorite parts of the week.

For physical activity one day this week the kids did sit ups. I love how Inchworm gets in on the action. Yes, we have jammie days around her once in a while. That's part of the fun of homeschooling, right?

 

Inchworm has a new fascination with magazines.

In poetry we have been learning about he voice of the poem. Here the kids are demonstrating the wrong and then right way to read our weekly poem.

 Doodlebug got to go to a basketball game with Papa this week. While there he got his picture taken by the Ford guys because he told them his Daddy worked for Ford and he was wearing his Ford shirt. :) Here he is in one of the new cars they had at the game on display. Go Beavers!!! And Ford. ;)

Here is our little America. Getting so big!

 

On to week 18....

 

 Here is what the science project looked like a week later. You can clearly see the mold on Doodlebug's banana.

We learned about the different types of owls wing spans and how they vary in length by measuring out each one with yarn. Then we measured our own arms to see how big our wing span is. ;) Please try to ignore the picture frames on the wall that have the display people photos in them still. I really do intend to get my childrens pictures taken and display them in those frames eventually. For now at least they are on the wall. :)

 

We also learned about Robert Fulton and the steam boat. We had a very sad attempt at trying to see how a paddle works by taping spatulas and spoons together. It wasn't very successful but they got the main idea. Here are the kids notebooking pages for history this week.

Robert Fulton liked to invent and was very creative. He made a candle that you could shoot into the air with gun powder. The kids art project was to make a painting of a candle and fireworks on a baking sheet and then press a page on top of it to transfer the masterpiece.

Our timelines are coming right along. Not sure why Polly wog has less on hers. Must be that week she was sick with the flu.

Polly wog is doing very well in English with First Language Lessons. She was practicing her helping verbs so we wrote them on the table for review. She has such a good memory.

 

 Our character trait this week was optimism. The bible verse to go along with it was Proverbs 29:21 Many are the plans in a man's heart but  it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. Another good one for Mama to learn too. :) I keep telling you that I get as much or more out of these lessons than the kids.

Polly wog was in charge of snack time this week and she chose to make these grape tomatoes filled with tuna, cream cheese, and lime juice. They were super yummy!

What two year old doesn't love painting!?!

 

America was playing peek a boo with Daddy over the coffee table.

 

That sums up our last two weeks. Phew! This post only took me ALL day to get done in little spurts, but it is DONE! :) I love having all our school days to look back at on our blog.