For our Winter Journal this week, we joined the Handbook of Nature Study's Winter Series Challenge #1 on Cattails . I am jumping in with the current challenge because I am challenge oriented like that. We also started the series on Discover Nature in …

A Mouse House Challenge: Your TASK is to create one room of a house for a mouse. Your team should then present a PERFORMANCE in which you show the Appraisers (your parents) the room. {Our first hybrid challenge!} Materials: 6 Paper Cups 4 Paper Clips …

We had a lot of fun doing our first hybrid challenge , (task and performance based) so I took the plunge and went for a performance based challenge this week! That means we will be doing some improv acting with some imaginary props! Hide and Seek IC#8 Ti…

In our last History lesson , we covered what happened after the Flood, Noah's descendants, and the Tower of Babel. In this lesson (which took 2 weeks) we learned about the ancient city of Ur and why Abram was called out of that city. Readings: Genesis…

This has been a good week for us. It feels good to be in some sort of a routine and I am actually thinking about making a schedule! {gasp} I will still pray for the Father to order our day each and every day, but I think we will do certain subjects during ce…

~Mali is 4 years 10 months~ This is our last letter in our Alphabet Fun series!  Since this is our last letter, we kept it real simple. :-) For our Alphabet Fun with the letter O, we read Owl Babies , by Martin Waddel, made an owl craft and an owl lap/scr…