Califoregon Living

Today was the MOPS meet and greet.  The boys were at church from 9-12pm.  I was able to watch them for a while in church and we did a part of the lesson.  Attending the lesson as well was “O”, age 2, and “A”, age 5.

Fingerplay

“Let My People Go”

Bible Story

Exodus 13:18-22

Children's Bible: God led his people in a cloud by day and fire by night.

Active Exploration

We played “Follow the Leader”.  Everyone took turn playing God, and was the “Leader”.

Letter Activity

The boys  completed the “Hide and Seek” “G” worksheet. (I am too tired to post the picture right now.)

P.E.

'A' had martial arts one hour.  Both boys played on the playground after.

I reversed the 26th and the 27th lesson plans by mistake…

Fingerplay

“Let My People Go”

Bible Story

Exodus 12:21-23

Children's Bible:  The story of the last plague; the Passover

Math Activity

We lined up cars and pushed them over the “finish line”.  We talked about who came in first, second, third, fourth, and fifth.

The boys also drew doors (well, 'A' did and I assisted 'R') on an activity sheet.

Letter Activity

We reviewed the 'G' flashcard.

Theme

We worked on the 'Apple' lapbook.

Spanish

I introduced the four seasons: primavera, verano, otono, invierno

Read Aloud

“The Story of Little Babaji”

Fingerplay

“Let my People Go”

Bible Story

Exodus 12:29-33

Children’s Bible: Story where the king’s son dies when all firstborn died from God’s “Passover” and told the Israelites to leave.

Devotional Activity

Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”

We read a story about what missionaries are, and what the “good news” is.  We talked about how we can be missionaries in our own neighborhood and share the gospel to everyone.

Letter Activity

The boys glued cotton balls on the letter ‘G’.

Music

Played the song, “The Exodus”

P.E.

“A” had one hour martial arts

“R” played on the playset

We did not work on our theme, spanish, read aloud, or life skills today.  I just returned from the MOPS convention and needed to catch up on “stuff”.

Nature

It was such a gorgeous day today, I decided to take out school outdoors.  After a fun morning with a playdate at our house, we went up to Rattlesnake Lake, threw rocks in the lake, then did our lessons.  After the lessons, the boys were playing on an uprooted stump, and we ran into a friend and her family.  We were able to visit and play with them a little as well.  We also found a yellow caterpillar and enjoyed having it crawl up our arms.

Fingerplay

“Baby in the Basket”

Bible Story

We read about Moses and Aaron warning the king to set the people free.  If he didn’t, God would turn the water to blood.

Active Exploration

We gathered water in a container to represent the water of Egypt.  I had ‘A’ narrate the story we had just read and turn the water into “blood”.  They boys thought this was pretty cool and repeated about three times.

Letter Activity

The boys traced the letter ‘F’ on a flashcard, with their finger.  Both know this letter by sight.

Bible Activity

I asked: “Have you ever been in trouble for not listening to your parents?

‘A’ responded: “No, we get in trouble for other things.”

I asked: “What are some “no-no’s” at your house?

‘A’ responded: “hitting, cats can’t scratch us, complain about not wanting to go somewhere”

I asked: “Did the king get into trouble because he did not listen to Moses’ and Aaron’s warning?

‘A’ responded: “yes”

We closed in prayer, asking God to help us listen to our parents and heed a warning the first time, rather than suffer the consequences.

Even though we went on a field trip this day, later that evening, my nieces came over (ages 9 and 11).  They were excited to step forward and serve as 'teachers' for 'A' and 'R', so we decided to do a lesson.

Fingerplay

“Baby in the basket”

Bible Story

My niece, 'P',(1G11) read Exodus 3:1-7

I read from the Children's Bible, about Moses speaking to God through the burning bush.

Devotional Activity

I read from'My ABC Bible Verses':

John 3:16 “For God so loves the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

There was short story with it and we repeated this verse three times.  We also reviewed the other verses from before.

Letter Activity

My nieces, 'P(1G11)and K(2G9)' served as supervisors over the boys working on their 'Hide and Seek 'F'' sheet.

Math Activity

The boys glued pictures of shoes on the 'Number 7' page.

Music

Played and sang, “Pharoah Told Them No”

No homeschool for the rest of the week.  I head for the MOPS convention in Nashville, and DH and the boys to Sandpoint, ID.

Today, our fledgling homeschool group went to Minea Farm, where we were able to see a 100 year-old cider press at work, and a video of the entire process.

The video shows how the apples are harvested, washed, mashed, then are placed on a cloth-lined tray.  The trays are stacked and pressed with 750 pounds of pressure.

Here is the press in action:

Receiving a sample of the fresh pressed pear/apple juice from Mrs. Minea (sounds like 'Minnie'). Yum!

Here is a picture of the area where the workers wash the apples, and bottle the cider.

The remains of the pressed apples.  This is processed into animal food.

The store, where the Mineas sell fresh apple cider, fruit leather, apple butter, homemade jams, organic eggs, and more.

A few  charter members of our gang!

I have decided to implement a theme for the week. We began the ‘apple’ theme today, because, a) we are going on a field trip tomorrow to a place that has a 100 year old apple press, and b) I found a free lapbook study on ‘apples’ at liveandlearnpress.com.

Fingerplay

“Baby in the Basket”

Bible Story

Exodus 2:5-10

Children’s Bible: Moses was found by the Pharoah’s daughter

Dramatic Play

I had the boys take their stuffed animals and pretend that they are ‘babies’.  They pretended to change diapers, feed them, rock, them.  We sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ to the babies, and we put them to bed.

Letter Activity

I had the boys fingerpaint the letter ‘F’.  “A” did a great job of staying inside the lines! (Something I requested of him.)

We also took this time to review that red, yellow, and blue were primary colors, and that yellow and blue make green, yellow and red make orange, and red and blue make purple, and all three make brown.

I think it has ‘clicked’ with “R”.  The past two letters ‘E’ and ‘F’, he has been able to immediately say what they are on sight, without prompting.  It will be interesting to see how he does upon review of the other letters.

Bible Activity

The boys acted out the story of Moses being found by the Pharoah’s daughter.  I gave them prompts and they acted them out, pretending to be the Pharoah’s daughter.

We then talked about what mothers to do care for their children.

“A” said: they put bandaids on owies, feed you, and let you play on their computer.

“R” said: they play cars

“O” (visiting friend) said: they take you to the doctor when you are sick

Music

Played “Baby Moses”

Lapbook

We made an acrostic poem for the ‘apple’ cover.  Here is what they came up with (with a little prompting).

Apples are good

Pears are yummy, too

Penguins do not eat apples

Lavender, you can smell

Elephants eat apples

We also cut an apple in half and put paint on it and stamped the cover.  It did not turn out very well, but, oh well.  You will see when finished.

Spanish

I had the boys sing ‘Estrellita, Donde esta?’ (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) without my assistance.  ‘A’ nailed it, and ‘R’ did very well.  They each got a big star sticker.

I then quizzed them on colors.  For every color they got right, they got a sticker.

‘A’ knew amarillo, and azul

‘R’ knew amarillo

Read Aloud

Miss Rumphius

The Story of Little Babaji