Days 1-11 (including daily math activities)

[martinmcash]

We just finished the first exploration day, which we are actually breaking up into two days. It hasn't rained, so we can't seem to find the worms, I may use someone else's idea about the bait shop.

We attracted a lot of ants very quickly with the honeybread, and we noticed where all the entrances to their tunnels were and we marked them and estimated how big the nest was underground. My oldest son remarked it looked like a little highway how fast they were all going, so I said, "I'm gonna show you something neat." I went and got the baby powder and made a big "C" around the bread and covered one of the entrances with it. Ants don't like to walk in powder and they can't smell the scent trails, so they scramble to find new ways to get to the bread and find their other entrances to get into the nest, it was a really neat lesson for my boys. We spent quite a bit of time just watching them run around. My oldest said, "You know, it's almost like the powder is the policemen blocking the exits on the highway, so they have to go around to another exit." For a 6 year old, it was very insightful LOL. We also discovered that baby powder is a cheap insecticide LOL.

[smwells]

The clay was a little hard to work with at first, but I found it got easier to mold after sitting and "resting" for about 5 minutes. Also, the pots were so small that we had a hard time molding them. We used the blunt end of a chopstick to form the hole and mold it and that worked perfectly! Also (this is a funny one) we put a mini marshmallow under all the lids to give them a "raised middle". : )

[martinmcash]

I too found that we had very small pots, so we made one big pot, but the clay didn't dry hard, it just crumbled when we moved it the next day (we let it "dry" overnight. However, I really like the idea about the marshmallow for the lid, I may try that next time!

[Rox]

I've never heard these pronounced. I want to be sure I teach this correctly. Can someone please advise? thx

[evey]

Jewish calendar Months - I've never heard these pronounced. I want to be sure I teach this correctly. Can someone please advise? thx

I think Hebrew4Christians.com has help on how to pronounce words. Hope it helps.
Blessings with it- and happy Sukkot (feast of tabernacles this week)
Evonne

[TurnOurHearts]

Hi Rox :)

I can offer you NO HELP whatsoever with pronunciations, but I wanted to encourage you that, if no one is up to that challenge, feel free to introduce them in a laughing, Mommy-doesn't-know-it-all-but-that's-okay kind of way.

With my oldest, I tended to want everything to be perfect ~ to have all the answers to all of his questions, kwim? A friend took that to a whole new level for me with this challenge: "Paige, if you're perfect for him, why will he ever need Jesus?" Yeah...yikes. Granted, I still LOVE to have the right answers for my kids (REALLY love!), but it offered me a perspective that I needed. I need to be able to relate to my children as imperfect beings. For a long time, my sister & I thought our parents could do no wrong. When we realized they were just as broken & human as we were, it was hard.

I know this post is WAY more than you bargained for, and I apologize. I just wanted to say it is certainly okay for you to laugh & be silly as you attempt to pronounce the Jewish calendar months. I wish you could have been a fly on the wall at my house when we read the genealogy of Noah in CtG a few weeks ago... ;)

[cbollin]

Day 2, Clay Jar:

From time to time I've heard that people struggle with the recipe or making the jar.

We used half of the recipe and it was fine. Add an extra drop or two of water if needed. Did ours dry completely overnight? nah. not that big of a deal. we might paint it later or smash it down and start over time for fun !

Hints: if you are struggling with making a jar from the play clay,then make long snake coils and stack the coils on top of each other for the jar. Then make a flat top. Save a pinch or two and make little rolls that can be "scrolls" to place in the jar. This jar is not intended to hold the A-Z scroll that you are making over the next couple of days. It is for play and to help remind students that scrolls were stored in jars a long time ago. I let my daughters make jars while I read the Bible lessons today.


-crystal

[cbollin]

I've heard a lot of cyber chat recently that some of us are confused on what to do with the place value section of number of the day.

Here's what I do.

I took the cardstock paper and put it in a page protector. The top half I do for my child. That is not what MFW recommends. That's me. It will change as the year progresses. (My daughter is slow learner with autism.) and then she copies it on the bottom. That is not what MFW recommends. That's me.
We use dry erase marker.

Top line: in the box, write the numeral. On the line you can either write the word (which is not really what MFW says, but it's ok to do if you want to), or let the child write the numeral on the line next to the box.

next line: in the blank space, draw dots/beans or whatever. When you hit on number 10, draw the dots/beans in a line for one group of ten. Lines: 10 + 0 = 10

Now, that's the theory. My child does not draw or make dots. Instead, she physically takes the bean sticks that we made (which are really flower stickers on them, not beans) and places them on her page. No, they don't fit, but that's ok. It gives her the visual to see it. So she can see one group of tens and the units.

equations
example:
when number of day is 12
11 + 1 = 12
12-1 = 11

You write the number of the day in the box.
Our equations are missing today on this scan. they wore off.

If the site admins need to remove my picture, if it crosses lines of copyright of that worksheet.... I understand.

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[matriarch918]

I might be posting this just a little late since Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashana is in two days. My family is intending to do our best to celebrate all the Biblical holidays this year. It will compliment our 1st grader's studies, but we anticipate our whole family being blessed by a better understanding of these feasts. We have been to a messianic Passover Seder before and found it to be an amazing experience. Two resources I have been finding to be helpful is a book my in laws found called "Jesus in the Feasts of Israel" and a wevsite that has lots of spiritual and practical articles called http://biblicalholidays.com/ I hope this blesses someone.

[cbollin]

I might be posting this just a little late since Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashana is in two days. My family is intending to do our best to celebrate all the Biblical holidays this year. It will compliment our 1st grader's studies, but we anticipate our whole family being blessed by a better understanding of these feasts. We have been to a messianic Passover Seder before and found it to be an amazing experience. Two resources I have been finding to be helpful is a book my in laws found called "Jesus in the Feasts of Israel" and a wevsite that has lots of spiritual and practical articles called http://biblicalholidays.com/ I hope this blesses someone.

Just a preview.... in Creation to the Greeks, MFW uses a different book to do this kind of study. Celebrating Biblical Feasts