Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Ten Commandments Lapbook - completed

(Ryan's lapbook folded shut)

We have been working on a Ten Commandments lapbook for quite awhile. 

Before we ever started writing and crafting,  I made a card-stock song using these memory pegs <----click to see).
 
The boys learned the Ten Commandments easily that way.  If I ask them to tell me what commandment six is, they can remember the picture and the song... which helps them remember the commandment. 

After they learned The Commandments, I had them copy the NT verses that reference the OT commandment onto strips.  They copied one verse a day.
 We cut these strips and secured them with a brad (you can see that in the picture.  The strips can be fanned out when the folder is open.) 

We made a large pocket for the middle of the lapbook and it contains the memory pictures.  Jonathan decided he wanted the music for the song to go into that pocket as well as making a separate pocket for his NT verses.  Justin and Ryan stapled theirs to the flap on the right side.  When I took these pictures they were in an extremely silly mood.  You can see it on their faces!


After I took the pictures, they added a heart- shaped printout to their pocket that said:


Jesus when asked about the greatest commandment said:

LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF


If you love God with all your heart:



You will place Him above other things.

You will worship Him only.

You will use his name in a reverent way and not say it lightly.

You will reserve a time to worship Him.



If you love others as yourself:



You will love and respect your parents.

You will never intentionally harm another person.

A husband or wife will be true to a spouse.

You will observe the property rights of others and not take anything that does not belong to you.

You will speak the truth about others and not say hurtful things about them.

You will be content with what you have and not be wanting what others have.







Snowball

Snowball is such a cute hamster.
He is a tired little fella; I don't blame him.


The Civil War - timeline characters

We are learning about the  Civil War. Here are the newest time-line characters.
Drawn by Jonathan--- Writing by Justin--- Gluing by Ryan ;-)


We watched this interesting film about Civil war guns.  There are five parts, so if you watch this...when you finish this look for part two....


The Gettysburg Address:

Monday, August 30, 2010

Lilly the Ladybug story

Note to self: read this story when you study ladybugs!  Have the boys do the worksheet about ladybugs!

http://www.ebfarm.com/WhyOrganic/LillyTheLadybug-ActivityBook.pdf

Ryan finished his first copybook!

Ryan finished his first copybook today. He was so excited, that he did over 2 pages today to get it done. Here is one of the last pages he completed:

Butterfly videos

We are learning about butterflies.... This clip was very interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWT51807cyM

We also watched these:


Monday, August 23, 2010

Praying mantis

Since we have been doing a unit study about insects, and daddy found this praying mantis on Saturday, I figured it was a great time to study them!


He or she is huge!

I didn't know they could eat mice and snakes, but they do!  Eek!


We also watched the link below (It wouldn't let me embed).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGuallLPcM

Monday, August 16, 2010

Bug notebook pages

The boys have been adding pages to their bug notebooks.  These were my 3 favorite from this week. 


  I usually read to them some information about bugs,sometimes watch a Youtube video,  and then they are allowed to choose their favorite fact. 
Ryan is in copy-work stage.
   He drew the picture himself and then copied the letters.
He says his stag beetle is eating a centipede.
All pictures are clickable.

Jonathan writes about click bugs: "Little bugs that click are called click beetles."  What I thought was so cute about this picture was the two little bugs at the top holding the banner.

Justin writes about the firefly.  He had more than one thing he liked about fireflies.
*"Lampyridae" is Latin for shining fire!!
*The chemicals in fireflies are used in research to fight cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses.
*They're related to the beetle.