Schooling

School is going great!  My goal for this year is to make learning fun!  After all it is fun and we are doing first grade, kindergarten and pre-k.... that should be fun!  Last year was very much let's get the meat of the lesson done! Taylor would complain a lot and say school is boring. :(  I was pregnant and then had a newborn.  I also had to turn stuff in with the virtual school.  So with no pressure and being accountable to ourselves by not doing virtual this year... we are having fun! That is my goal... we may be having to much fun though... Nah! Never! I am so thankful to God for providing this for us!  

My Father's World is hands on learning curriculum.  We do phonics and reading too which is very important.  But we go outside and explore the things that we are learning about or make something to go along with what we're learning.  It's a lot more work, a bigger mess and takes us longer to do a lesson BUT totally worth it!  And I tell myself that every school day.  Messes can clean up just go for it! 

So the first week we learned about creation.  On day 2 God Made the Sky, we went outside and looked at the clouds, we looked for shapes in the clouds and learned there are different types of clouds.  We had fun taking pictures too! 

I got this idea from Pinterest.  If you take a bar of ivory soap in the  microwave it forms a cloud.  Very cool. So we did this and the kids thought it was awesome!  It comes out of the microwave all in one piece so it's not that messy.  You can just crumble it up after it's out, we tore it apart in our bath that night. 

Taylor's art that week was to make a clay pot... yes I said MAKE a clay pot, out of corn starch and some other stuff.  I was not to excited about trying that one... but willing.  I was talking to a friend at church about that and she said just paint pots!  Ummm YES!  Why didn't I think of that!  So we painted pots instead of making them.  Taylor learned that in Bible times people wrote on a scroll and the scrolls were stored in clay pots.

We did a picture for each day of creation.  They turned out really cute.  I should of taken a picture of all of them... Oh well... we turned them into a book so they could keep them.  Anywho... for Day 7 the directions were to put the number 7 on a white sheet of paper and nothing else... for God Rested.  Taylor did this on her own... she made a bed out of a foam sheet and glued it to the paper and drew God.  At first I couldn't tell what it was and asked her to tell me about it... she said "It's God resting in bed!"  I love this! :)