Preparing for Rebecca, Time #2

This week was our registration day for American Girls and other classes at our co-op for this fall. I am excited to have a new group of girls to teach this semester. I have changed this outline a little bit from the last time I did this class. I changed a few things that didn't work or that we didn't have time to do. I hope it will be a great semester!

Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish girl from Russia (1914) outline- 6 weeks

Book 1: Meet Rebecca 9/15/2015

Theme: Shofar, holidays; Geography notebooks

Craft: Lace doilies with beige muslin and lace on edges

Snack: Challah bread

Book 2: Rebecca and Ana 9/22/2015

Craft: Russian nesting dolls, paint, brushes

U.S. Flags to wave;  Snack: bagels

Book 3: Candlelight for Rebecca 9/29/2015

Theme: Chanukah Read- Pearl’s 8 days of Chanukah

Craft: Dreidels (printed)- color & assemble; Make a Menorah;  Play dreidel game with gelt 

Snack: Candy dreidel assemble (for fun)

Book 4: Rebecca and the Movies 10/6/2015

Theme: Passover Read- The Four Questions, Song- “Dayneau”, teaching plate

Craft: 4 questions, hide Afikomen; Black framed name with star, word search

Snack: Charoset (to try); Egg Cremes

Book 5: Rebecca to the Rescue 10/13/2015

Theme: Coney Island Visit

Tickets & prizes- candy, bands, stickers, pencils

Craft: Paper bag for prizes, Crown Treat Basket

Snack: Root beer/ lemonade, coney dogs

Book 6: Changes for Rebecca 10/20/2015

Theme: Hollywood- Pictures

Craft: Leaf garland; Family book for Rebecca

Snack: Squeeze our own lemonade

*This outline may change without notice... If I can’t find the craft supplies I need or the snack recipes. My main intention with the crafts (and snacks) are to heighten the girls interest in learning about different periods of history. Hopefully the above collection of crafts will do just that!

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Esther 3:6
Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

Esther 4:3
In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 27:37
Above his head they placed the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

Lentil book/ Lemons!

We had another fun week of homeschool last week. In our Five In A Row lesson plans, we learned about the book, "Lentil" by Robert McCloskey. It is a classic story written in 1940, and we had a fun time reading it, learning about the 1940's, the state of Ohio, graphing the fictional town, playing the harmonica, tasting lemons, puckering and making a small glass of lemonade!

On Friday, we tasted a lemon, and Bethany liked it! It made me pucker up, but she licked it a lot! The girls juiced the lemon, we added water and sugar, and it was a good cup of lemonade! It was a fun way to end the week. Bethany looked forward to tasting the lemon all week! The bummer part of juicing the lemon was when big sister Mallory got lemon juice in her cut on her hand... OUCH!

We also talked about the different tastes-- sour, sweet, salty and bitter. We made a list of each of those with foods that we could think of. First grade sure is fun!

Psalm 107:37-38
They sowed fields and planted vineyards
that yielded a fruitful harvest;
he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,
and he did not let their herds diminish.

Isaiah 32:17
The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.

Jeremiah 31:30
Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sourgrapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

First week of school/ ducks!

We had a great first week of school last week. I didn't take lots of pictures of the kids doing their work, I didn't think of it or didn't want to interrupt them. Mallory loves doing her hands-on science experiments, and Caleb does his own General Science this year. He does all of his science on his own (first time this year in 7th grade). He seems to enjoy doing the experiments so far. We are learning about the 50 states and U.S. geography. We haven't started doing everything yet, no spelling so far and no art. We will do more of that this coming week. The kids and I are adjusting to the school schedule again, and to writing/ reading and learning/working more again! I keep reminding myself that the first few weeks are always hard and then we get into the groove.

Since Bethany talked about the book, "Story about Ping" in school last week, we asked a friend of ours if we could visit him and see his ducks at his house. He has been raising a few pairs and about eight "babies". They are not tiny fluff-balls anymore! We enjoyed seeing the duck's nest, how they eat and drink, seeing them walk around the yard and seeing our friend's bees too. He has a hive in his yard, which we looked at but that was all. He has chickens too! It was fun, and we were glad to be able to see ducks up close for our science last week! It was a fun little "field trip".

Here are some pictures...

The little guys eating from their food container... they're still kinda cute...

A clutch of eggs that will be incubated/ hatched later this fall...

A pair of ducks playing with each other... (wink, wink)

Another pair of ducks walking around...

Drinking their water... love their bills in this one... can see their feet well too...

Walking over to their pool to get a drink...

And here are the chickens... the kids liked that there were some gray ones that we don't have!

Psalm 8
Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.

Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!