The Simple Woman's Daybook FOR TODAY . . . 2/16/09 Outside my window... street lights are casting a soft glow on the night sky. Earlier it was a beautiful sunny day! I am thinking... that I am ready for spring! I am thankful for... my family. From the lea…

~Eliana is 24 months old ~ ~Malachi is 47 months old~ I originally planned this for Tot School for Elli, but Mali decided he wanted to be a part of the fun too! So, together, we did a fun unit study on the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! We: …

This week we explored the country of Nigeria. We: Colored the Flag of Nigeria Read Fascinating Facts Colored a worksheet on facts of Nigeria Made a Nigerian recipe, Banana Fritters, for our ethnic cooking project. Conducted an open-air market like t…

We learned about Israel's unit of currency, the New Israeli Shekel (NIS), when we studied Israel ; but, today we learned more about the kinds of shakah-leem (shekels) and practiced by exchanging them in our very own open-air market! The market was a proje…

Day 1: Read aloud - Escape from the Slave Traders Ch. 8-9 Overview of human geography: population, lifestyles, languages, education and religious beliefs Completed a graph on population growth in Africa Used information to mark the locations of important cit…

In this lesson, we learned all about pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, & walruses), what a true seal is and how to tell the difference between a true seal (cannot use rear flippers on land, small front flipper ending in claws, and no ear flaps) and a sea lion …

ABC Book: K is for kite. I had Mali make a kite from shapes cut out of construction paper. He loves tangrams so this was fun for him. He designed it, then glued the backs and I helped him put it back together on the comstruction paper.   Memory Ver…

In chapter 7, Mr. Robinson and the boys destroy the ship with gunpowder. By blowing up the ship, they could remain hidden until they could evaluate whether an approaching vessel was friend or foe. The Word commands us to be "wise as serpants and gentle a…