Days 126-160

[Scott Sorrell]

Days 126-160

[Mom2MnS]

Supply List DAYS 128-132

d130: dried kidney beans, water, paper towels, two jars
nature notebook (if you are going to sketch growing things)
containers, potting soil, and compost (if you are going to grow plants)

[Mom2MnS]

Supply List DAYS 133 - 137

d135: germinated beans from last week, 3 plastic flower pots, potting soil, water, pencil, labels, cardboard

[Mom2MnS]

Supply Lists DAYS 138 - 142

d140: celery stems, jar, water, blue ink,
potted plant, clear plastic bag
large bottle with lid, pebbles, charcoal (from garden center), damp potting soil, a few small plants (violet, ivy, fern, etc)

[Mom2MnS]

Supply Lists DAYS 143 - 147

d145: household plants, tin foil, leaves, cardboard, white paper, crayons

[Mom2MnS]

Supply List DAYS 148 - 152

d150: rose, magnifying glass

[Mom2MnS]

Supply List DAYS 153 - 157

d155: nature journal or blank paper, pencil

[Mom2MnS]

Supply Lists DAYS 158 - 160

d158: onion, knife, 2 jars, live twigs or cuttings, water, Amaryllis bulb, carrot top, saucer, beet top

d159: magnifying glass, mud, plastic bag, dandelion puff, sycamore seeds

d160: soil, jar with lid, water, leaf litter, plastic bag, white paper, magnifying glass, paint brush, leaves, damp tissue

[my3boys]

I need to look for books that ds can read after lesson 126. We are going to end school at 126 and just read for fun and keep up on practicing math facts.

We'll be using mostly books you can get in 'beginning-to-read' section of your library. Their is also a reading list at the back of the MFW instructor guides.

[cbollin]

If you have the book Honey for A Child's Heart (from the deluxe package), that will have a long list of titles sorted by age/grade level to select from.

Another option is to look in the first grade manual in the appendix section called Other Resources. (it's the page before Reading Games in my manual). There's a list of collections there. You might find them in library, or church library to get that book with its lists.

A few years back, MFW sold a book called The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury. You might check that from the library and see which of those titles are fun for your child and family and reading level.

-crystal

[cbollin]

Bible Activities. copied from another thread ..........
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13011&p=89413#p89413

Yodergoat » Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:48 pm
...I do have an idea for Day 136, when the Bible Reader is about the parable of the sower. My husband taught on this recently in his 1st and 2nd grade Sunday School class and we made up an activity to help them visualize it.

I took four identical deli containers with lids (actually they are what we use to transport pet crayfish) and filled each one with the type of soil described. I packed one down really hard for the "path," another was filled with rocks and just a smattering of dirt for the "rocky ground," another was chocked with "thorns and thistles," which were actually.... hens and chicks plants! But it got it across that the seeds couldn't grow with so much competition. And of course one was "good soil."

My husband took these to class and allowed the students to be the sower. I gave him some wheat seed that I had for sprouts. They sowed the seed in each cup and he described what each one represented as they did so. They seemed to really get it! Since so many of them had never been near a garden, this was a concept they could understand better because they did it, you know?

And sure enough, the ones in the good soil did best. But, we didn't leave the cups there for the kids to see the progress because we were afraid it would backfire or something. I brought them home.

If you do this activity with a child at home, where they are going to be watching the progress intently, make certain that you give that good soil cup every advantage. Pat the seeds down lightly so they have good contact with the soil. Be sure that there are drainage holes in the cups if you are going to keep and grown them for any length of time. If you're nervous it won't work out and might make the parable seem untrue, just use it as an object lesson for that day of the sowing and then discard. In this case you wouldn't even need real seed.

So that's one idea!

For day 137, the Bible reader account that day is Jesus calming the storm. We have acted this out before in church classes for fun, with an adult flapping a sheet and spraying the children with a spray bottle for the "storm" and then one child gets to be Jesus who says, "Peace, be still." The adult must instantly stop the "storm." It turned out that even a year later, many of the children still remembered "Peace, be still."

Another option for this that we have done at church was making a wave bottle. We put blue food coloring in water and filled an empty plastic bottle with label removed half full. Then we added oil the rest of the way and glued on the lid. When it is tilted, it becomes a "storm," but when you stop moving it, it quickly becomes calm. This was fun.

For day 139, the fish and loaves miracle, I think we will probably just have a meal featuring bread and fish!

For 142, the parable of the lost coin, it might be fun to hide a coin and have the child seek it out diligently. Kids seem to love lookin' for stuff.

For 144, the healing of a blind man, I think it would benefit the child to act out being blind for a while with covered eyes, just to make him or her appreciate sight.

For 149, the resurrection, there are lots of ideas for that online...

For 152, Pentecost, I plan to talk about how the Spirit allowed the people to speak and understand different languages. I can sing a few snippets of phrases and songs in various languages... a Korean folk song a Korean aunt in law taught me as a child, the French equivalent of Jingle Bells (Vive le Vent), a few German phrases I learned from a German-speaking teacher when I was in eight grade (Excuse me please, where is the train station? ), and some Spanish stuff. Should be fun to see if Gail can intepret these, and her inablity to do so might help demonstrate the amazing power that God gave the apostles that day!

That's all I can think of. Not as good as the stuff Marie had planned for the Old Testament, but something, at least!
I'm Shawna...
... a forgiven child of God since 1994
... happily wed to William since 1996
... mother of our long-awaited Gail since 3/15/2006
... missing 5 little ones (3 miscarriages, 2 ectopics)
... just started MFW First Grade! (previously did MFW K)

[cbollin]

some extended ideas on day 136....

one of the nice things in this... is this is also the time when the Science with Plants book is started.. so you'll get plenty of practice with plants.

1. toss seed on sidewalk (along the path)
2. toss seed on a rock with dirt (not potting soil)
3. look at weeds growing where you hoped they wouldn't (in the case of seed growing with thorns... it might actually appear that the seed is the weed and it is what gets yanked up instead)
4. then, take care and use potting soil and a cup and plant a seed and give it what it needs.

Yes... things will grow in other places, but it might not be what you want to grow there. All I have to do is walk in my backyard... "eww... I didn't plant THAT" or "yuck... that's a gross weed with sticky pointy things on it in the middle of my orange lillies".. or "what is this tree thing here?" which is the weed and which is the stuff that I want there?

don't be scared of stuff growing in all of them... that doesn't make the teaching story seem false. in the parable things do grow. I think having poor soil, rocks, and good soil is part of it. and birds (real or just your hand pretending)... and sometimes the good seed growing in wrong place gets yanked up. remember..... they'll study this all again and again in their lives and the disciples didn't get it the first time either

Another tweak (use radish seeds as they sprout fast)

1. toss seed on your kitchen counter. Have puppet birds pretend to eat seed. (you can use your hand and pretend to make bird sounds)
2. toss seed on a shallow plate with dirt (not potting soil) and a few pebbles. if seed sprouts, it can't grow much. It will grow, but not as much as the soil isn't deep and you are using poor soil to begin with.
3. toss seed in a mix of outdoor weeds. with thorns is nice b/c it makes it hard to help the radish seed for those who want to help the radish to grow........ (or field trip to backyard to see how plants are growing)
4. toss seed in a container with potting soil and care for it.

it's a visual and more than likely they'll remember the puppet birds.

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(but why aren't there activities in NT section like there were in OT? well... some of that is explained in the manual on pages between day 125 and 126).

here are some of my thoughts looking back on this topic.......

Many times during this NT section of first grade, you'll find it beneficial to act out the stories in some fashion as a hands on learning method. There isn't a "parent read story" like in the first part of the manual. The children should be reading the story to you or to himself. Then, you can read it a second time and have the child act the story (since he is familiar with it already). Let them read again. Use props to help them begin to visualize stories in their minds when they are reading. I guess I see the opportunity to really develop reading comprehension during this time and that any hands on crafts would be "gravy" to the hands on reading comprehension in this.

So, I think for any of the NT stories - it is fine to have the process of child reads out loud. parent re-reads while child acts it out with props. Child re-reads. You could see it that way.


Day 132: for props on this story.... Make a Fort out of chairs and sheets, or cushions. Make it so that you can remove a top from the roof to lower a stuffed animal or action figure through the hole.

Day 141 - find a way to help someone with something with no expectation of repayment. (yes, it can be someone in your own household too)

pentecost story - consider teaching about Bible translation too. go onto faith comes by hearing website. listen to a few language with a familiar verse. Have student look at the God's Word for the Nations's website (GWN was founded by the Hazells of MFW fame)
http://www.gwftn.org/


I think that even though it isn't written do this/do that... in this section of the program... I think many of us will have ideas that just pop up during that time especially after doing many easy, fun activities in the first part of the program.

Just begin to make little notes to your self in the manual now to do it. add in a little note: act story, or do a service project.

-crystal