tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60600739916540570642024-03-05T00:33:44.631-08:00In the home and by the way...ADVENTURES IN HOMESCHOOLING BOYSRenae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-61337300330199520572014-10-09T09:42:00.000-07:002014-10-09T09:42:05.523-07:00School Year 2014-2015Hi again! I haven't been around for the summer and part of the fall. I sort of just disappeared for the last few months. I took a break from blogging during this time, but I do plan to continue documenting our homeschooling journey here at <i>In the Home and By the Way</i>. Over the summer my husband and I started a new church called Awaken and have been up to our necks in work since. If we thought pastoral work was busy, then in the words of my husband, "this is pastoring on steroids!" Starting a church from the ground up takes a lot of time and energy, but let me tell you, it's been electric! <br />
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Here are some of our homeschooling pictures during the month of September.<br />
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Abishai's Grade 2 picture! 7 years old.<br />
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<span id="goog_1222455535"></span><span id="goog_1222455536"></span>Micaiah is officially in Kindergarten this year. 5.5 years old.<br />
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1st day of school pictures.<br />
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Asher and Gilead along for the ride.<br />
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Lunch in a nearby park.<br />
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Reading the classic "The Wind In The Willows" to Abishai while he draws.<br />
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Mr. Popper's Penguins. Another classic that I'm reading to both Abishai and Micaiah.<br />
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Abishai loves mystery readers.<br />
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Asher is often enjoying the backyard while the older boys are doing their school work.<br />
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We are learning about why we have four seasons and what makes day and night.<br />
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We watched a portions of this DVD on why we have seasons.<br />
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Micaiah is the earth spinning and rotating around the sun (i.e..coffee table).<br />
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Abishai is earth turning toward the sun to make day and then away from the sun to make night.<br />
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Gilead having the time of his life. His world is bigger now that he can crawl.<br />
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I found this gem at the library to go with our learning about the 5 Great Lakes from last year. We read <i>Paddle To The Sea</i> in grade 1.<br />
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We are continuing to learn about Canada, it's history, and our greater world. Here the boys are exploring with a compass. They are learning where North, South, East and West is in our backyard. <br />
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Abishai loves performing, so we signed him up for Funky Boys at a dance studio. His best buddy joined the class too.<br />
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Gilead having a hard day with teething. It was a hard day for mom as well.<br />
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The comforts of a warm cup of tea and Red Hulk while learning to read.<br />
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Music leader auditions.<br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-60835957514797478822014-06-15T13:01:00.002-07:002014-06-15T13:01:30.652-07:00Seven Years OldWe had Abishai's first ever ALL boys birthday party! No parents this year, just his friends. Abishai's party theme was all about Dragons and Dragon Knights. I can't believe how well the theme went off with the boys. We purchased Nerf-like 'Dragon Knight' swords for the guests to use in party games. At the end they got to take them home as party favours along with a Dragon Fruit (pictured at the bottom of the post). My husband, being the story teller he is, wove the Dragon Fruit and Dragon Knight swords into a fantasy story that the boys had fun playing out. I loved watching the fun and excitement.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DGTxVBxSJqTmJjdqslFMcJrFC2B5sJQD81k2NPRwXtnR4Kmm4i-qDtkE7GnbkKzU4iwstdcyEim6uW_LStWsEGPF829ST_esow0IgUEOW7U-9dn4Lq1Lq_lkI3XF_EcLTtuBsidfdNY/s1600/IMG_1716.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DGTxVBxSJqTmJjdqslFMcJrFC2B5sJQD81k2NPRwXtnR4Kmm4i-qDtkE7GnbkKzU4iwstdcyEim6uW_LStWsEGPF829ST_esow0IgUEOW7U-9dn4Lq1Lq_lkI3XF_EcLTtuBsidfdNY/s1600/IMG_1716.JPG" height="506" width="640" /></a><br />
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Telling the dragon knight tale.<br />
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The Master Dragon being chased by the Dragon Knights.<br />
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The fun didn't stop when the parents arrived to pick up their children. They and the siblings joined in the fun and the party kept getting better and better.<br />
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I love these 'littles'.<br />
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The dragon was threatened by the dragon knights, so he sent his raven to drop dragon fruit into the knights' breakfast to turn them into dragons. One lone dragon knight set out to turn back the dragons into dragon knights again...and a magical story turned a 7 year old birthday party into a world of laughter and fun.<br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-13713855224259119452014-06-13T19:51:00.001-07:002014-06-14T10:53:04.085-07:00Nearing the End<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life Science: Plants, has now been moved outside. It's been fun to have a living classroom! The boys finally got to transplant the seedlings we grew inside to the outdoors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then they got to work on planting the rest of the garden. We planted corn, pumpkins, yellow beans, tomatoes, carrots, peas, lettuce, and cucumbers. It was a lot of work, even for a little garden like ours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We got this purple pepper, compliments of Sage Garden from a local craft show called Third+Bird. We planted it out in the garden as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our neighbour gave us some Hostas. We split and transplanted them from her yard into ours. These babies cost almost $10 to buy just one in the store. We transplanted 4 of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Social Studies we learned about the Canadian mail system and how mail gets from one person to another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading practice... Detective stories are always a hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little history... The story of the Titanic from the perspective of former passengers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our block clock. Micaiah was learning to tell time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai finished his spelling, level 1. I even learned some new spelling rules that I didn't learn in school or at least I don't remember learning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah having quiet time in the foyer of our house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Tonka Trucks and gravel pit area. I've cleaned up this area quite a bit since taking this picture and layed down some new pea gravel for the boys. It has a fresher, cleaner look now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sprinkler time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drying off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nature walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can't deprive a boy of his desire to climb!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baseball! I can't believe we can actually play baseball in our yard! I am so thankful to God for this. The main reason we chose to move in the first place was to find a yard big enough for our high energy boys to run around in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Date night with this little handsome son of mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking a moment to relax with little Gilead. Gotta love my orange garden boots!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This smiley face keeps me company in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some of what we've been up to over the last couple of weeks in addition to all those things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Garage sales! A quick bite to eat in between houses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother's Day celebrations!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new spelling program! Which we love and are almost done! Abishai has grown leaps and bounds because of this program. It's called <i>All About Spelling</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our spelling box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Swimming lessons!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dad helping to put in a rain barrel to water my garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading practice about Christopher Columbus and tracking his journey on the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Picnics with fellow homeschooling friends.</span><br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-73837548238672990612014-05-07T17:36:00.001-07:002014-05-07T17:36:09.473-07:00Spring's Approach!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our home life over the last week or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah making tally marks with coloured popsicle sticks.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyF8Fj63N5HhZMusX9wnTIrWE9l857QOcaf4QTmabGJz3CYxFicNQG3AmIWdciuVJiNMYUemRHv_mbEgBZoWibC3CdR6DCXdXFWx2sFlyVrTyCuhGzN8ICd547RxyRS-2ocsjfNTTIQQ/s1600/IMG_1053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdyF8Fj63N5HhZMusX9wnTIrWE9l857QOcaf4QTmabGJz3CYxFicNQG3AmIWdciuVJiNMYUemRHv_mbEgBZoWibC3CdR6DCXdXFWx2sFlyVrTyCuhGzN8ICd547RxyRS-2ocsjfNTTIQQ/s1600/IMG_1053.jpg" height="640" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah made a math equation out of our supper. Can you see it? "4+3=7 Mommy!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took out some easy readers from our library for Micaiah to practice with. He loved these and read them over and over for 3 weeks until it was time to return them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Science. Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. I often explain how the white blood cells are the super heroes of our body, who fight off the villains, aka germs. I then sneak in the opportunity to talk about the importance of giving the Super Hero's of our body extra boosts of fighting power by eating healthy foods and reducing sugar intake to almost nil (since sugar enhances the fighting power of villains). My boys love this way of talking. It makes sense to them and they quickly get on board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also covered how we breathe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A booklet on the 4 seasons and their months. Abishai did a title page for each one.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2z46B5HA0WvvB-rGiQhydmtj83rwHiPaZEwoT9xlbaGJl5Cq2bsy8Dnw3oGe8diBs2glTPumOMe8P1-hx_ZkJ3WegPCGp-BcHbCp5ravpAWcNIZ78pzo29nbo8alTMO5qpE-0NsW2PtE/s1600/IMG_1098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2z46B5HA0WvvB-rGiQhydmtj83rwHiPaZEwoT9xlbaGJl5Cq2bsy8Dnw3oGe8diBs2glTPumOMe8P1-hx_ZkJ3WegPCGp-BcHbCp5ravpAWcNIZ78pzo29nbo8alTMO5qpE-0NsW2PtE/s1600/IMG_1098.JPG" height="478" width="640" /></a><span id="goog_1761267628"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Science: magic potion; a chemical reaction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started to take apart our Easter Garden, but before I threw it completely in the garbage, I wanted to show the boys how vegetation stops soil erosion. I let them pick up the clumps of soil that had grass growing in them, to show how grass keeps it together. Then, I picked up the soil without grass to show them how loose the soil was and how easily it fell from my fingers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three homeschooling families gathered together at Youth For Christ's gym to have a morning of fun and games. Three moms and 11 children. It was a blast! Thanks to my friends who did all the planning and organizing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More science. Solids, liquids and gases. This was a little taste of what Abishai will be learning next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Liquids. Which container holds the most liquid? Micaiah guessed the blue and Abishai guessed the green. I poured all three, one at a time, into a measuring cup to show them that they all contained the same amount of liquid, emphasizing that liquid takes the shape of its container.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More science again: plants. We're growing tomato plants and a mix of sunflowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're still on our journey across the country with <i>Wow Canada</i>. We've just entered Ontario</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morning devotions and prayer time led by Daddy. Daren reads a passage and then each family member takes their turn to pray to start the day. The other morning Asher (2.5 yrs) prayed, "Help Daddy to write a good sermon. Help mommy have a good night, Micaiah have a good night, Abishai have a good night and Gilead have a good night. Amen" Asher loves to pray and often insists he prays at every meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai's 1st purchase with his allowance money. He saved for 8 weeks to buy the Megatron transformer and waited another 3 weeks for it to come in the mail. It finally was waiting for him in the mailbox after swimming lessons one day. Abishai was so excited and so proud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little Gilead! He gets everyone's attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skip counting dot-to-dot. Can you guess who's doing math for fun? That's right: Micaiah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our new/used Kijiji purchase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Gilead maxin & relaxin!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby playtime!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately we didn't get to do all 12 lent activities that I'd hoped to do from <i>Sense of the Resurrection</i>. But we did make it pretty far, missing out on only 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this activity we read Mark 15:21-32, and talked about Jesus' sacrifice for us. We put a red dot on our hands to remind us of the marks where the nails went into Jesus' hands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also read John 19:23-30, where Jesus drank vinegar just before he died. The boys tasted a spoonful of pure vinegar to see how bitter it can be. It was an activity that showed us how Jesus took the bitterness of our sin upon himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crosses in our Easter Garden. The purple cross represents Jesus' royalty. He is our King!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went out and bought 24 children's hangers and hung up the majority of the costumes. 24 hangers was not enough (Grandma so generously keeps adding to our collection), so the rest of the costumes went back in the bin until I could buy more hangers. I was sceptical as to whether this solution was going to work (I still am), but we're on week three and the costumes keep getting hung back up in the closet (and not by me). Way to go boys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends are always fun to have over. The more Super Heroes, the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Vikings too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've continued learning about the neighbourhood around us through <i>Come Sit By Me.</i> We're learning what to do when we're lost. What the police do and how they can help us and keep us safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with the theme of being lost, we looked at camoflage creatures who conceal themselves from danger. Some of them were really hard to find!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did a chromatography science experiment. We found the hidden colours within a colour (secondary colours only).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other categories we've been reading from include fairy tales, history, poems, character, art and science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again we made an Easter Garden, our second year in a row. It's a really fun project to do over the 6 weeks of Lent, leading into spring! Micaiah is watering the grass seed. In this picture, it is just starting to sprout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were supposed to make a purple tissue paper cross to put on our window, but I didn't have purple tissue paper. What I did have was purple popsicle sticks, so I improvised and we made a purple cross to represent royalty, recognizing Jesus as our King. While the boys made the crosses, I read John 19:1-16. Later, I stood the crosses in the soil of our Easter Garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're nearing the end of the part of our science curriculum that focuses on the human body. T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">his week we</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> learned about the human eye. Abishai was particularly interested in the tear ducts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We read how dim light causes the pupil to widen, and how bright light causes it to narrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To see if this actually happens, w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e took pictures of Abishai's eye. Here is Abishai's pupil in bright light - narrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in dim light - wide</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A game of Spiderman Sorry = Addition practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've been learning about our country through this book called <i>Wow Canada</i>. It's a story about two kids whose parents take them on a trip to see all the provinces and territories. The children document their journey through story telling. Abisahi finds this book quite interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we journey across the country with <i>Wow Canada</i>, the boys colour in the province we're reading about. We're just about to leave Alberta (not coloured in this photo).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A friend of mine told me about the <i>Mary's Atlas </i>series, so I picked a couple of them up from our library to supplement our exploration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the afternoon, I like to read story books or novels to the boys. Since they know how to fold certain items of our laundry, I read to them while they work. I once read that Noel Piper, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Treasuring-God-Traditions-euml-Piper/dp/1581348339">Treasuring God in Our Traditions</a> (where I got the Jesus Tree idea from) read to her boys while they folded laundry, so I decided that one day I would do this too (my older boys were just babies at the time I read her book).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we collect more and more lego sets, we also collect more and more instructions on how to build those sets. Every time one of the boys goes to build (which is everyday) they dig through this blue basket to find the desired booklet. After, there's a big mess of instruction booklets to clean up, and over time they begin to rip and tear. Now hear me out. <i>I</i> don't have to clean this up; Abishai and Micaiah do, so really this big mess isn't my problem. But I don't like the booklets getting torn. Once a booklet looses a page or two, it's game over for building (at least according to design). Since I LOVE organizing, I came up with a plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Dollarama and purchased this binder with transparent presentation inserts. I then "tape-doctored" all the instructions that needed it and slid the booklets into their slots. Now, only one instruction booklet gets pulled out at a time, while the rest stay safely stored inside, just waiting for its turn!</span><br />
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Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-39782467780773067142014-04-04T17:05:00.000-07:002014-04-04T17:05:20.098-07:00Lent Activites Post #3 - Washing FeetAfter reading John 13:1-17 about Jesus being our Servant King, we set out to wash each others feet. We started with the oldest serving the younger. I washed Abishai, Abishai washed Micaiah, and then Micaiah washed Asher.<br />
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I wasn't expecting to get a turn, but after all the boys had theirs, they offered to wash mine. I was delighted. It felt so good to sink my feet into that warm bucket of water. All the aches and pains from being on my feet all day vanished away in those few minutes. And then, as quickly as it came, it was all over, because the boys wanted to have their feet washed again. But for those few short minutes, it was heaven!<br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-69071256132061627772014-03-26T10:27:00.001-07:002014-03-26T10:27:48.213-07:00Lent Activities Post #2<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Easter this year, we've been doing </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OhAmanda's</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ohamanda.com/a-sense-of-the-resurrection-an-easter-experience-for-families/">Sense of the Resurrection</a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. We did her </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://truthinthetinsel.com/buy-the-book/">Truth In the Tinsel</a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for Advent last year (and the year before) and loved it, so when <i>Sense of the Resurrection</i> came out, I had to have it. If you keep checking back you'll see the different activities we'll be doing from her ebook throughout the Lenten season. There are 12 bible stories with 12 go along activities. I have it worked out so that we'll do 2 stories and their activities twice a week for each of the 6 weeks leading up to Easter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first story is from John 12:1-8, where Jesus is anointed with perfume by Mary in preparation for His death and burial. The boys crafted while I read the story to them. They tend to listen better when they're moving around or making something. The perfume bottle you see Abishai covering with tissue paper is an add-on of my own, and isn't a part of <i>Sense of the Resurrection</i>, but the perfume bottle that Micaiah is working on is. The idea is that every time you smell the perfume soaked up by the reeds, it reminds you of the story and helps you remember to thank Jesus for dying for you. The boys both had one in their room and it smelled wonderful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After crafting, the boys and I watched a SuperBook video with a scene showing Mary anointing Jesus with perfume. Again, this was an add-on of my own. You can buy the SuperBook videos <a href="https://www.cbn.com/giving/special/sbdvdclub.aspx?gclid=CP7vwMunp70CFeJF7AodLxMAbA&cpid=PPC_SB-PTD-GOOG-01&m=037427">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second story was from Matthew 21:1-11, about the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. We made wind chimes out of tin cans painted green. They didn't turn out and I ended up throwing them out in the end. The idea was that every time we heard our wind chimes blowing in the wind we would be reminded of the truth of Jesus' mission to save us from our sin. Practically though, our wintery Canadian March isn't the season to be outside hearing wind chimes. Next year I'll come up with a craft more suited to the frigid north!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A close-up of one of the Holy Week pictures on our dining room wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1196357591"></span>St. Patrick's Day falls in the Lenten season, so we did a little with that as well. We have a book about the true story of <a href="https://secure.persecution.com/p-375-the-story-of-saint-patrick.aspx">St. Patrick</a>, which is at least as exciting as Leprechauns! It's full of pirates, risk, and an adventure that really inspired my little boys. Abishai told me later that he wanted to be just like St. Patrick. You can purchase it <a href="https://secure.persecution.com/p-375-the-story-of-saint-patrick.aspx">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">St. Patrick's Day crafting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found Ireland on our world map. We also tracked St. Patrick's journey from his homeland of Britain over to Ireland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's St. Paddy's Day without some Irish music and dancing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For our studies this week we explored fire and its dangers. The boys were really engaged during this one. We started off with <i>No Dragons for Tea. </i>It's about a little girl who meets a dragon and brings him home for tea. While he's over, the dragon accidentally sneezes and starts a fire. The rest of the story talks all about fire safety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We ended up having our own dragon for tea!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We read several books on fire. A couple of forest fires...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ...and grass fires.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai really liked the book, <i>Hot Shots</i>, and scoured his costume bin to find anything that would resemble a Hot Shots uniform. I thought he did pretty good and he played this for two days straight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We talked a little about fighting fire with fire and what a backburn was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We discussed what to do if we encounter a fire in our house. We talked about all the possible ways we could get out if there was a fire and where we would meet once we were out of the house. We discussed the importance of crawling beneath the smoke on our way out and how to stop, drop and roll if our clothes caught on fire. Our <i>No Dragons for Tea</i> book even came with a Fire-Safety Rhyme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We talked about the two things that fire needs to burn: a fuel source and oxygen. If one or both aren't present, then fire can't happen. For a little science experiment we removed the oxygen from this candle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also read some scripture describing Jesus as a consuming fire. We talked about Moses and the burning bush. We asked questions about how the bush could be on fire without being consumed. The fire had fuel and oxygen, but still, the tree didn't burn up. The wonder of God shone in the boys' eyes. Later, they watched a SuperBook on Moses and the burning bush. You can watch the movie trailer on it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYu-3VFJmZE">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also did some finger painting with the colours yellow and red, mixing them together to make orange––the warm colours of fire. We discussed what warm and cool colours were. I think it was their first time fingerpainting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While we were busy homeschooling, this is what Asher was up to. Snowblower watching!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, we weren't homeschooling during his bed time, but here he is reading <i>The Action Bible</i> with his book light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And of course Gilead! He sleeps a lot so there aren't a lot of pictures of him in action... yet!</span><br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-61681104212897286502014-03-19T17:15:00.001-07:002014-03-19T17:26:50.975-07:00Lent Activities<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lent is upon us! In the days leading up to Ash Wednesday I took some time to make preparations so that the 6 weeks leading up to Christ's death and resurrection would be special and reflective for my boys. I hope that over the next month and a half, their little hearts are impacted that much more for Jesus and what he did for us on the cross.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">40 candles for 40 days. The boys blow one candle out each day. On Good Friday, all will be dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During Lent, the boys are watching exclusively God type videos. Stuff like SuperBook, Bible Man, Veggie Tales, Story Keepers, and family character movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every year I put up Holy Week pictures on the wall by our dining room table. It never fails to spark discussion and new questions about Jesus and His death and resurrection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year in our new house we were able to put up a larger Jesus Tree than in previous years. My husband took 3 of our 4 boys out to get one, which has become an annual tradition. Because of the larger size of the tree, we now have lots more room to add decorations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher exploring some of our decorations. The donkey Jesus rode on, the bread eaten by Jesus and his disciples at the last supper. The rooster that crowed 3 times after Peter's denial. I often find the decorations on the floor: Asher strikes again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The afternoon sun is so glorious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Friends came to visit. My boys enjoyed the company of this little baby girl!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neighbours helping neighbours. I am happy with how quickly we are getting to know the people living around us since our move last August. Today, another neighbour surprised us by blowing out our driveway. I was so thankful for his kindness. The snowbanks are so high now that it's almost impossible to heave the snow up and over the bank. A snow blower does this with ease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life Science: Our skin. With his magnifying glass Abishai looks closely at the cracks and lines of his skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discussing the many things they are learning about their skin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I read a poem, the boys acted it out. The idea was to act out the action verbs. Little Asher loved copying whatever his older brothers did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're doing some books from a curriculum called "Come Sit By Me". Abishai has some loose teeth, so I chose a unit on teeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We read stories about Tooth Fairies. Abishai practiced writing a letter of his own to a friend of his. He doesn't believe in Tooth Fairies, otherwise he might have written to her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More books about fairies, cavities and false teeth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai's reading practice was about loose teeth as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai sewed a tooth pouch to put his teeth in once they fall out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah has a few more years before any of his teeth fall out, but he wanted to make one too, so he did!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The temperature rose above zero, making the snow nice and sticky! Finally, the boys had their chance to make a snowman. They'd gotten used to such cold weather this year that they didn't believe they wouldn't need to dress so warmly. By the end of this session outside, they had their scarves, toques and hoods off, and were much more comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugging their creation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah is also trying to memorize addition facts. Both his reading and his math learning have been on his own initiative. He likes it so much that I can't wait to see what happens when he hits Kindergarten this fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what our boys' bathroom looks like. So gross! And they even sit down to pee. So glad we have 3 washrooms. 1 for girls (and my husband), 1 for little boys and 1 for guests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love this "Little Brother" sleeper that Gilead is wearing. The littlest of the 3 "little" brothers in our house. I am soaking up every moment of him. Every hug, every kiss, every beaming smile!</span><br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-27197382149392607712014-03-02T19:35:00.000-08:002014-03-19T17:28:56.849-07:00Little Nino's Pizzeria<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little Nino's Pizzeria by Karen Barbour tells the story of Tony, a little boy who helps his father in the family pizzeria until the restaurant gets so successful that it is sold to open a fancier place. Nino learns an important lesson about being an entrepreneur and about happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai loved this book. We read it over and over, enjoying all the pictures and taking time to look and observe all the colours and art work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We observed all that goes into making a pizza - dough, meat, vegetables, sauce. You can make a wide variety of combinations for pizzas. We studied the food groups and arranged them into their proper categories. Micaiah is colouring the foods that belong in each group.</span><span id="goog_833817256"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai did a food group sort. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This activity was kind of a waste of time. By doing this activity, I discovered that the boys already knew their food groups. I guess as a family we talk a lot about food and health, and the boys have already picked up on all of this. This is to show you that "unschooling" can be an effective method of teaching children. But it takes a secure and confident parent to "unschool" and I am not that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While rowing <i>Little Nino's</i>, we discovered homonyms<i>. </i>So I picked up lots of books to build on that idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amelia Bedelia loves homonyms, so Abishai read lots of Amelia Bedelia books. Abishai thought she was funny. He couldn't wait to see what crazy thing she would do next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also took a look at idioms. I even learned two or three new ones myself. I had never heard of "a bolt from the blue". I have already used it a few time in conversation with Daren since reading about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took a look at artists like Matisse. We read about his life and looked at a couple of his paintings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai loves painting so he asked to paint after looking at Matisse's work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pizza is a great way to introduce fractions. Thank you Melissa and Doug!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wrote down some fractions and Abishai added the toppings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Voila, Abishai's fraction pizza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are learning subtraction in math so I grabbed this book from the library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We made our own pizza! Spelt pizza of course. This was our first time ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grating lots and lots of cheese!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks good, but did it taste good? Noooo it didn't. I baked it at too high of a temperature for too long. It started to burn before the crust was cooked. Next time I will bake it at a lower temperature. The boys and I thought it was gross, but my husband surprisingly enjoyed it. He's so easy to please!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life Science video that recapped some of our previous lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been reading Paddle to the Sea to the boys during lunch each day. A geography story book on the Great Lakes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also been reading them a chapter or two a day from Charlotte's Web. Abishai saw the movie before I was able to read the book to him. How did that happen! I was so disappointed to learn that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teaching the boys </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(and my husband)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> how to set a table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snacks and cuddle times. Saltless pretzels. Who eats saltless pretzels?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whats a day without house work? Asher learning to sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai asked for an allowance. So my husband and I thought of extra things that he could do around the house to make money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found these jars at the Dollar Store and printed off the pigs from <a href="http://www.fourpiggies.com/">fourpiggies.com</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My husband and I are teaching Abishai about long term saving for bigger items and about tithing and giving back to God. So far, Abishai has shown restraint with his money, especially after discovering how hard it is to work and save up for things. He took his money to the store to buy something the other day, but came home with nothing because he couldn't find anything that was really worth spending it on. </span></div>
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Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-52315762826127571612014-02-12T18:19:00.002-08:002014-02-13T05:36:07.720-08:00Warm As Wool<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai really enjoyed rowing <i>Warm as Wool</i> by Scott Russell Sanders. He's asked to have it read to him everyday for the last two weeks. I'm not sure why he liked it so much. I guess I should have asked him, but I liked it too, and didn't mind reading it over and over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on a true story, <i>Warm as Wool</i> is about a pioneer woman determined to keep her children warm with wool clothing from her own sheep. An excellent story about the hardships of pioneer life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took a look at the covered wagon as the main way for pioneers to travel and transport their belongings from one home to another. We compared their way of moving to the way we transported our belongings when we moved into our house just a little over 6 months ago.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrfZlLx-zLLe-1AKPwy6_MXBOHmdBSm1TPTbDZGMNNOCzrS9aafQh_xnXvkXBvhkWcW3xOayfy6FGXrcuBwkTI53Nzr9ALlBcu-u1PfSc6-6fAp6VTKsr5zuZFBWmmLRW9lpLsXQzwdM/s1600/IMG_9874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrfZlLx-zLLe-1AKPwy6_MXBOHmdBSm1TPTbDZGMNNOCzrS9aafQh_xnXvkXBvhkWcW3xOayfy6FGXrcuBwkTI53Nzr9ALlBcu-u1PfSc6-6fAp6VTKsr5zuZFBWmmLRW9lpLsXQzwdM/s1600/IMG_9874.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book, <i>The Prairie Fire</i> was about the life-threatening dangers of prairie fires. Abishai learned about how pioneers created fireguards to protect their property from being destroyed. A boy, just a little older than Abishai, takes on the responsibility of putting out sparks landing beyond the fireguard before they grow too big to handle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We discussed what buffalo chips were from <i>The New Land; a First Year on the Prairie</i>, and how pioneers used them to start fires when trees or wood weren't available to them</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some homes were 8 paces wide and 6 paces deep. We counted those paces in our living room to discover that their whole home was smaller than our living room. A pioneers home was the width of the dark strips of hardwood you see in the picture but went just a little deeper, to our front window.</span></div>
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We looked at pictures of their log houses and constructed some of our own from Lincoln Logs. The boys played with the logs for a couple of days. Micaiah made a home, shed and barn. <br />
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Abishai refused to follow the instruction booklet from the Lincoln Log set. He ran into some difficulties at first, but in the end figured it out on his own.<br />
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Which he ended up putting a racing track through. New meets old!<br />
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Lunch time reading (or when we're colouring). Life Science: The Burgess Bird Book.</div>
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As we read through the book and came across new bird characters from the story, the boys and I looked them up on our handy dandy iPad to see their colours and hear what they sound like. The iPad chirps their song back to us. So fun!<br />
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Showing us all the different kinds of Wrens.<br />
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Supper time reading. A Canadian Flyer book about pioneer life in Upper Canada. </div>
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We followed the journey of the pioneers from <i>Warm as Wool</i> on our world map from Connecticut, through New York, across Lake Erie, landing near Cleveland and then into Ohio. We placed our story disk of the sheep on Ohio.</div>
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Because <i>Warm as Wool </i>includes a few similes in it's story, Abishai and I talked about what a simile is. As we read through several other story books on pioneer life, Abishai started to notice similes on his own. "Mommy, there's another simile!" he would say.</div>
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Micaiah's birthday came and went. He is now 5 years old!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWvdmk2i4pSCCYEx8juz9kTGmSMNQ2mhcwKxGapXT2SPAHTG4jK4pKHJNxE8_l61oddO7Zk67B4Sf4F1xz4I8yuLIoL_XwMcGua5soe0JEoT_C0PK0FqjccR9nDc_6GZVg11VKy6VX6g/s1600/IMG_1342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWvdmk2i4pSCCYEx8juz9kTGmSMNQ2mhcwKxGapXT2SPAHTG4jK4pKHJNxE8_l61oddO7Zk67B4Sf4F1xz4I8yuLIoL_XwMcGua5soe0JEoT_C0PK0FqjccR9nDc_6GZVg11VKy6VX6g/s1600/IMG_1342.jpg" height="640" width="640" /></a></div>
We had a house full of 26 people out to our place to celebrate. 12 children and 13 adults! I was so thankful for our house, as it held all 26 comfortably without feeling squished.<br />
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Micaiah loves lego, so I put together a lego theme for his birthday. I even made lego cupcakes! </div>
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One of Micaiah's presents. Luckily there's a small snow hill in our backyard for him to practise on.</div>
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #4f372f; text-align: center;">"A boy finds a salamander in the woods and imagines the many things he can do to turn his room into a perfect salamander home..."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salamanders need a lot of things to survive, and one of those is insects. Sooo, we read some books on crickets and butterflies, one of them being a chapter book called <i>The Cricket in Times Square, </i>which solidified what we already learned in <i>Chirping Crickets. </i>We also read a few of the Crinkleroot's guide books on nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We read about how to care for salamanders, and why they're called amphibians, which led to exploring other categories in the classification system of the animal kingdom, especially vertebrates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai sorted vertebrates into their proper classes. Since salamanders are amphibians, we discussed others animals that fit into that class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We made a list of things we would need if Abishai had a salamander for a pet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai then drew a picture of the things salamanders need for survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since bullfrogs were mentioned in The Salamander Room, we looked at the life cycle of frogs as well. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another animal that goes through a metamorphosis is the butterfly, and since they were illustrated in the book, we read about them as well. We read a book on the Monarch (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shown below) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and learned some fascinating things about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai dictated a story about a salamander and then illustrated it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys are making clay salamanders </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I took several pictures but all of them turned out blurry and had to be deleted; too bad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai enjoys Arnold Lobel's books. He finished Uncle Elephant this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In grammar studies, Abishai learned how to address an envelope, and also ordered the months of the year</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah has joined Abishai in gym class this semester. He's a natural athlete, and is enjoying gym a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Gilead's bath time. It became a family event as all 3 boys wanted to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gilead gave Micaiah his first smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher's language skills are growing more and more each day. He's becoming such a big boy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These two get along really well. Abishai has chosen Asher as a roommate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winter rides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah asked if he could help with lunch. He really is a help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our breakfast bar was taken up with puzzling so we had breakfast in front of the fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai lit the fire––his first time doing it on his own. Responsibility develops maturity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morning breakfast with coffee by the fire! It was so cozy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah and Abishai exploring the Natural History Museum on the iPad.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJK0e0EYCsgJ51xUpdDwLqzE7Ltw7WwVKfVXZq2jeFR0YwFijZGpFdKRYW9v6H7zM0e_6SyoRs6ZhqBBa2jw3C8iWdnYfA5uc20GULMOYI3gzACiwNQprX-JMpn1KLwoKgK2wT6dplBs/s1600/IMG_1161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJK0e0EYCsgJ51xUpdDwLqzE7Ltw7WwVKfVXZq2jeFR0YwFijZGpFdKRYW9v6H7zM0e_6SyoRs6ZhqBBa2jw3C8iWdnYfA5uc20GULMOYI3gzACiwNQprX-JMpn1KLwoKgK2wT6dplBs/s1600/IMG_1161.JPG" height="640" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems like lego time happens all day long. If it wasn't for this memory blog it would feel like lego is all that happens in this house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah made this during his quiet time</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai trying to write a story, but being distracted by his brother's antics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fort-making. So much snow this year!</span></div>
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Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-84235197171259516812013-12-24T20:00:00.001-08:002013-12-24T20:00:15.106-08:00Introducing Gilead Lewis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was born safely at home by the warmth of the fire and the twinkling of the Christmas lights. With the support of 3 midwives and our close friend Terra by my side, it was a delight to finally meet my 9 lb 9 oz baby boy! Welcome here Gilead!</span><br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-77685611198647439592013-12-09T18:55:00.000-08:002013-12-09T18:55:20.642-08:00Bee Tree Continued<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We continued our rowing of <i>The Bee Tree </i>this week. One of the characters in the story had just came back from a Klondike expedition, so we took a look at the gold rush in the Yukon, Canada. We read several books from different perspectives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did a collage of things that are made from gold. The boys paged through magazines looking for gold things to cut out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the boys cut and pasted, I read them a story about King Midas and his greed for gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah's collage on gold on the left (blue paper) and Abishai's right (orange paper).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We enjoyed this chapter book on the gold rush. I can't believe the effort people went to just to get to Dawson City in the Yukon. I was tired out just reading about it, never mind doing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai's last gym class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Christmas book selection from the public library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah doing Christmas sticker fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Micaiah played with stickers, I made story disks to place on our world map for all the around-the-world adventures we're going to have through FIAR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Asher quietly played Ninja Turtles, cars, and nativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai is working on common nouns of things right now. He drew a picture of common things in our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai shovelling the driveway. Micaiah was out there helping too, but he came in before Abishai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher pulled his pants and diaper down around his ankles and then waddled, tripped, waddled, tripped––full of giggles all the way to the bathroom. When he reached the toilet, he asked Daren to help him on. Asher at 25 months has started his self potty-training. Since he's initiating this interest, I went down to the storage room to retrieve a potty seat so he wouldn't fall into the toilet. He's pretty excited about his "new" seat and carries it around from toilet to toilet putting it on and taking it off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah resumed reading lessons after about a 6 month break. He has known his letter sounds and how to sound out words for a while now but had difficulty blending those sounds to figure out the word. After a bit of maturing he now has no trouble blending. He's progressing quite nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waiting for the banana bread to be done for snack time. I found a healthy, but yummy recipe online. I was going to share it with you, but couldn't find the blog where I found it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to <a href="http://www.heatherhaupt.com/2013/11/06/truth-in-the-tinsel-whats-new-and-why-we-love-it/">Truth in the Tinsel</a> for Advent, we added <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Jothams-Journey-Storybook-Arnold-Ytreeide/dp/0825441749/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386637121&sr=8-1&keywords=jotham%27s+journey">Jotham's Journey: A Storybook for Advent</a>. So far it's really engaging. Love it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other day I sent the boys out to play. When you're a mother of three sons you almost need a house the size of a castle and just as immovable, to not go insane from all the wrestling, chasing, horse play, and destruction that happens every single day. Here's a saying I spotted last year in a book called </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mother's Almanac</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There must be a special place in heaven for mothers of three sons. You certainly can tell them on earth. They’re those ladies with amused, bemused faces and an amazing tolerance for disaster – for they have learned that shouting doesn’t help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No other combination of children, not even twins, can create so much chaos or camaraderie. Even the most introspective child will join the team – them against you – and like all good players, they encourage each other to bigger feats of daring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We recommend the advice of so many successful mothers of three boys. Give them as much outdoor playtime as possible, and indoors, set up two rooms: one for sleeping, with nothing but beds and bureaus, and the other for playing, with much climbing equipment. With three children, one is bound to be quieter than the others and he probably will need a corner somewhere else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On days when little Asher causes chaos, making lessons hard to teach, I take a deep breath and remind myself that these chaotic moments are just that––moments, and then they are over. After crying to high heaven and making it impossible for the other two boys to hear me read to them, Asher sits quietly by himself, paging through a Christmas book. Peace on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In our Bible lessons we've begun the Life of Jesus. We're reading about the three Wise Men and the gifts they bring baby Jesus. While I read the story and then played and discussed the lyrics to the carol <i>We Three Kings, </i>the boys made three bowls out of play dough. The first for gold (represented with round balls), the second for Frankincense (represented with baby powder) and the third for Myrrh (represented with scented lotion).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After, we sat down and looked at Botticelli's <i>Adoration of the Magi</i>. Botticelli painted people that he himself knew into his scenes. I asked Abishai who he would choose to put in if he were painting this picture. Abishai named a gentleman from our old neighbourhood and some of his family and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did some reading on Hippopotamuses. We read some fun poetry, and watched a film based on a true story about an orphaned baby hippo who lost his family in the 2004 Kenya tsunami. We learned the relationship between hippos and turtles and saw some wonderful pictures of hippo life under water. Of course we had to sing <i>I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We switched our curriculum from Story of the World back to Five In A Row and started "rowing" Volume 3. Story of the World is a great curriculum, but it wasn't for Abishai at this time in his life. He just wasn't enjoying it, which made me not enjoy it. I will try it again once he is older and more able to appreciate it. Since we started rowing FIAR again, Abishiai has shown more interest in schooling, Micaiah has joined in on the fun and I've come to life again with the excitement of all the fascinating subjects we get to explore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our first book from Vol.3 that we rowed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah, "lover of animals" got right in there and started drawing his own beehive picture on his own initiative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Abishai worked on math, Asher stacked </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pattern blocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah playing with hexagon pattern blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Micaiah's hexagon/bee comb picture. On the right is his beehive with the orange honey flowing out of it. The top middle is a flower where the bees get their nectar. The bottom middle is a bee and the left is honey making its way to the bee hive.</span><br />
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-88382605225154090212013-11-19T17:28:00.002-08:002013-11-19T17:28:50.396-08:00Play Dough Messes And Other Life Moments<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah is not old enough for Kindergarten, but he likes to be included in our learning times. If Micaiah asks to do math then I let him. Here he's learning place values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher playing with his play dough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleaning up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai having a blast in gym class. I wish I could be there in these last few weeks to watch him, but I physically can't walk the distance with 3 kids from the university parking lots to the phys. ed building. It's quite the walk for a pregnant woman, even the distance to the shuttle stop feels far enough to send me into labour. For the last 3 classes, Abishai has been driven to gym while I stay home with the other two. But I miss it––seeing his excitement, watching him interact with his friends, and having the chance to talk with the other moms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning about Platypus's. The book on the left was fun to read and educational.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another week at gym. Dodge Ball is a favourite. Abishai is even starting to run into his homeschool friends outside of gym class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An afternoon snack in the warmth of the sun brings on brotherly love. What I love about this new house is that it has so much light. </span></div>
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-9517975838841907872013-11-11T16:01:00.003-08:002013-11-11T16:01:53.397-08:00Lest We Forget<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning my husband and I decided to take our boys to the Field of Honour at Brookside Cemetery to see where my Grandfather (who served in World War I) was buried. Normally we go to a Remembrance Day service, but since I'm half way through my 9th month of pregnancy, I didn't want to stand for too long (you don't always find a seat due to the crowds). This Remembrance Day ended up being so meaningful as we remembered Great Grandfather, who served the cause of peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Searching for the gravestone while following their Grandmother's (my mom) very detailed directions. We found it quite quickly because of her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the war, my Grandfather came over to Canada from England. He became a Christian through a downtown church and later met my Grandmother (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who was a brand new Christian herself)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> at another church . So both of my Grandparents were 1st generation Christians. I'm a 3rd generation Christian, and my children are 4th generation Christians. If it wasn't for the faith of my grandparents, it's very possible I wouldn't be sharing Christ with my children today. We all held hands and thanked God for the peace we now live in and the faith my Grandfather brought us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the request of my family, I darkened the letters to make it easier for others to find the grave. As I looked around, others have done this as well... smart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Remembrance Day to remember.</span>Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-25185339322259912742013-11-09T19:03:00.002-08:002013-11-09T19:03:25.078-08:00This and That<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cold morning homeschooling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soccer! Abishai seems to really enjoy this sport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My laundry room is complete. It has been for some time but I just didn't get around to taking pictures. I'm very excited to have a folding station now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And something for little Asher to do while I'm in here. Magnetic gears. Asher is often by my side and this keeps him busy while I work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher and Daddy time that is becoming their regular thing. Sea salt Kettle chips with vinegar.</span></div>
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-43051986802684676032013-10-31T20:42:00.000-07:002013-10-31T20:42:49.028-07:00Fencing<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai got to try fencing in gym class. So fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher playing with his cars and trucks. He plays with an assortment of cars all day long. I tried switching things up on him by setting up a barn with animals, but he ignored the animals and put his cars in the barn instead. Right now, cars are his thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai is learning proper nouns of places where some of his extended family live in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wrote a letter to his Grandma from out of town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah added a picture to the letter as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you look closely, Asher is holding his pencil correctly. He draws like this most of the time. How he knows how to hold a pencil, I don't know. Can he really be watching us that closely or is it just instinct?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah played peacefully with his lego before he started math and writing lessons for the day. He made the mistake of leaving the lego out while he homeschooled in the dining room. Asher came along and spread it generously around his room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All four of us got on the floor to help clean it up. Even little Asher helped, and so did I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with my 9th month pregnant belly! Abishai went under the bed to retrieve missing pieces and Micaiah volunteered to vacuum the dust bunnies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the big clean. I was dissatisfied with the arrangement of Micaiah's room. It had been bothering me for months. Sometimes furniture placement can be all wrong. Then we added in a desk and chair for Micaiah to craft and do lego on during quiet times in his room. We still have to paint the room (even though Micaiah is loving the pink walls right now) and I still have some final little details to make the room that much more complete, but it will have to wait for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did deep sea fish for life science this week</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we went to see the Mummy of Pesed at our local Museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abishai wrote his own Halloween song. I over heard him quietly sitting on the couch one morning writing a song. I quickly grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down what he was singing. I later copied it neatly onto Halloween paper to keep in his school record book. His song had consistent rhythm and I had planned to dig out my djembe drum so that we could play around with his song, but time slipped away on us.</span></div>
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-53196118064543992412013-10-24T16:24:00.001-07:002013-10-26T19:25:36.326-07:00Lilies of the Field<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our Bible lesson this week was from Matthew 6...</span><br />
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<i> <span class="text Matt-6-28" id="en-ESV-23311"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,</span> <span class="text Matt-6-29" id="en-ESV-23312"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">29 </sup>yet I tell you, <sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23312AU" title="See cross-reference AU">AU</a>)"></sup>even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</span> </i></div>
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<span class="text Matt-6-33"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children tend to understand this passage better than adults. You don't often find children worrying where their next meal is coming from or if they will have clothes to wear tomorrow. Their parents take care of all their needs. In the same way, adults need to put their trust in God.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-6-33"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We made paper lilies to remind us not to worry. While we did that, Asher beaded.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also made and coloured paper dolls to learn what kind of clothing the Israelites wore in Jesus' time, as well as to remind us that God takes care of our every need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys enjoyed colouring the clothing, but had no interest in playing with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to making paper lilies we took a look at the water lily paintings of Claude Monet. We also read some stories about his life. After, we attempted to "paint" water lilies with oil pastels. It's fun to smudge with pastels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our water lilies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My quick attempt while trying to keep Asher occupied in his highchair with apples to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doing math in the library while Asher plays with his cars.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0OH7zlNN_gvxmwqgQzQ5lHV2jXk5dVWd274Yr1wIBsoUaHWONHFreWDpvafh5fVj3EG4sLMHAYpYAwnf0dppq0LY0MOeNtQbdouMnOttk1yvkmhxdy0FMeaGONW7WVeF6KalloQf3qoM/s1600/IMG_8724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0OH7zlNN_gvxmwqgQzQ5lHV2jXk5dVWd274Yr1wIBsoUaHWONHFreWDpvafh5fVj3EG4sLMHAYpYAwnf0dppq0LY0MOeNtQbdouMnOttk1yvkmhxdy0FMeaGONW7WVeF6KalloQf3qoM/s640/IMG_8724.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wolverine running around our yard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then into his burrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our history lesson was on the Jewish people. It was a great add-on to our Bible lesson. Abishai is colouring a comic on Joseph in Egypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We picked up a book from the library on how to draw Halloween things. Micaiah attempted to draw from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Learning to play Croquet. They weren't following the rules at this time; just learning how to swing their mallets. It's nice to finally have a yard big enough to play Croquet in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One Saturday, the boys woke up wanting to craft. We crafted as a family on and off from 6am till 5pm. The boys artwork is displayed on almost every window of the house. I made the bats and Daren made the birds. </span></div>
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<br />Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-16965408809449845622013-10-17T05:13:00.000-07:002013-10-17T05:13:04.224-07:002 Already!<b><span style="font-size: large;">Asher turned 2! </span></b><br />
Cake and present time!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going crazy with his new present from Grandma and Grandpa!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stunt driving. Is that his left foot up on top of the seat?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple weeks before Asher turned 2, he started riding the balance bike. He rides it almost everyday.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Td_CMEiYH9OZo4X1eE4EpuLVyZsA0ZZPtnJhHuaZ0MAeQ2Lg4BXyuBuFhbcPCRM0GxSKxKymlLAmKTUwnV-LsKlhHouRq2Xk5bJjQzVl1wBJFrp4awy3upVeWkinOQ87UgzUy2hGSUU/s1600/IMG_8612.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Td_CMEiYH9OZo4X1eE4EpuLVyZsA0ZZPtnJhHuaZ0MAeQ2Lg4BXyuBuFhbcPCRM0GxSKxKymlLAmKTUwnV-LsKlhHouRq2Xk5bJjQzVl1wBJFrp4awy3upVeWkinOQ87UgzUy2hGSUU/s640/IMG_8612.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The older boys found new heights to climb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished my project of turning an old picture that I didn't like anymore into a chalk board. I plan to hang it in the front entrance and do chalk art according to the seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys helped me make apple pies. Healthy apple pies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking out the garbage bins. They are becoming so helpful and responsible at 6 and 4 years of age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Racket ball for Abishai this week. The ball was flying everywhere, but they all came out alive! Abishai is the one wearing orange shorts and a grey shirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah working on his letters in the peacefulness and quietness of the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our tub tap was dripping. Daren is teaching the boys how to fix it. They learned where to shut the water off in the basement, how to choose the right tools and how to open up the tap to find the problem. They were so eager to learn. Then they went off to Home Depot to buy the new part. </span></div>
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Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-25101837354870149032013-10-10T11:11:00.002-07:002013-10-10T11:11:41.449-07:00Mummies and Beavers<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we go! A week of spelling, grammar, math, reading, writing, art, and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">life science. I'm reading them a chapter-book on Beavers. Charlotte Mason has this term, "living book," for books where you learn facts about things by means of a story, which is the best setup for remembering information. When we were looking for a house to buy, I longed to spend some of our winter homeschooling hours reading to the boys around a roaring fire. As you can see by their clothing, learning happens at all times of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We played a bible running game in the backyard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gym class was Archery! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So exciting for a boy who wants to be Robin Hood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">History was readings about Mummies! We read an adventure chapter book by Mary Pope on Mummies in Ancient Egypt. Last week's history lesson on hieroglyphs was kind of dull, but when storified by Mary Pope, it became interesting and fun. I really liked <i>I am the Mummy Hebnefert, </i>a mummy reflecting on her living past and current state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play time in the garage. All 3 red tool boxes and the work bench belong to Abishai and Micaiah. I have to ask to borrow their tools if I want to do home projects</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys helping to reorganize the garage. We moved the whole wood pile to a different spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking apart some shelving that the previous owners left behind. The boys will be able to play with the pieces and make things of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daren picked up a leaf blower at a garage sale for $5. I normally don't rake leaves in the fall. I leave them to decay and send nutrients into the grass and soil, then rake what's left in the spring. But...I wanted to see if the blower worked and so I assembled it and let the boys have some fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher wanted to help, "me help", he says.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_XfX2jxUUrjDpTysx00Vxg486fdOXJwoBTyxmK9QLre7YIv2j82N7VM1OHPtZyLw5I5vLcYFyAq1VVENdhSVdHqVl5r4LDVPpjyBruywrGV7dgYRuLWFUjMFcscNxlUXlEHiDyLhcT68/s1600/IMG_8479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>Renae Redekopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009182269959915841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060073991654057064.post-90034189911098426892013-10-02T07:15:00.000-07:002013-10-02T07:15:56.775-07:00Wolves<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e read about wolves</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. While looking at one of our story books, Abishai and Micaiah drew an assortment of animals: wolves, bison, flycatchers, bears and beavers. All inspired by the paintings of Wendell Minor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book was our favourite, the same one pictured above. It's a true story about how wolves were brought back from near extinction in the USA. While the wolves were gone, the wilderness became unbalanced, but once 10 wolves from Canada were set free in Yellowstone National Park, the missing pieces of the wilderness were brought back into place again. So interesting how one animal species can affect so much for the positive!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the last few weeks we've been examining Jesus' sermon on the Mount. This week was Matthew 5:13-16 on being the salt and light of the world. The boys and I did a Bible illustration (Salt and Soda Overflow) to bring home the point of how following Jesus can really affect those around us. The salt immediately has an effect on the soda. Jesus talked about how people who follow him will have an effect on those around them. They make the world different and better just by following what Jesus' says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year Abishai is old enough to join Phys. Ed. at the University. His class is made up of other 6-8 year old homeschoolers. Abishai enjoys learning and playing the different sports and is making friends quickly. Micaiah, Asher and I sit on the side lines watching and getting to know the other moms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broom ball craziness! Abishai is the one wearing the black shirt and shorts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanksgiving is upon us, to the boys and my delight. Surprisingly, it is my favourite holiday of the year. I love how relaxed it is, the beautiful colours of the leaves turning, the table filled with hot and tasty food and the company of family and friends. It truly is a holiday of thankfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to reading a stack of Thanksgiving books, we also did some Thanksgiving drawings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We headed out to a local farm to pick pumpkins and ride horses; an extension of our science unit on horses from a couple weeks back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week, Ancient Egypt was the place to be. 6:15am, and Abishai was dressed with his bed already made, relaxing on the chaise reading a history picture book before breakfast. Quiet moments...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">For Bible time this week we looked at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Luke 8:19-21 and</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> discussed who Jesus' mother and brothers are. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">We made a family tree of people who love and follow Jesus and whom </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">the boys know personally</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">. We went out and gathered leaves from around the neighbourhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With our home undergoing repairs, we had to be out of the house, so we went to our <a href="http://nassaustreetchurch.com/">church</a> to homeschool for the day. Here we're up on the children's ministry floor. The boys love coming here to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Micaiah's completed tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher having his afternoon nap on the children's ministry stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People often ask how I homeschool with little ones under foot. The truth is that I'm not really sure; it just happens. On this particular day, Asher quietly played kitchen while I taught Abishai. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah practicing his letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we came home and used the wood in our fireplace. Asher was very eager to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asher after his hair cut. I look up mens haircuts on Pinterest, then hack away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Micaiah after his.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Playing the game "Sorry". Superhero version of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have so many costumes. They seem to just magically appear out of thin air. Thanks Grandma Redekopp.</span> </div>
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