Happy Easter Week.

I hope everyone joined their spring break.  We had the opportunity to enjoy the Energy plex.

2.5 Hours of running, climbing, jumping, and playing!

The climbing wall.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Our focus this week was the easter story. We talked about the meaning of the last supper, communion, the passover, crucifixion, forgiveness, and our sins that lay on the cross. We talked about the journey Jesus would have had to walk being betrayed, beaten, shamed and made to carry his own cross. We talked about what the thorns would have looked like and felt like, what his feelings might have been barring the weight of the cross and being nailed to the cross. We looked at our hands and feet imagining the nails that pierced our saviours all while he humbly graciously took our sins. 

He is risen tomb craft. 

I know Easter has passed but I found this fun craft and wanted to share. 

We made our own "stained" crosses, cutting, painting, staining and gluing.

We spent lots of time that week reviewing the Easter bible story, making sure we could truly understand what Easter is about. At our house we are not against the "easter eggs, bunnies, and special easter hunts" as long as the true belief is understood, focusing on Jesus and what he did for us.

Colouring our "stained" glass

Our funny Bunny ears.

 HAPPY EASTER!! 

Week of March 11

Iron man and Dragon-Spiderman joined us this week on our home school adventures. Our week was full of exploring at the little big science center, a visit with a police officer, watching our seeds grow and signing up for our spring co-op. 

Ironman got to be the helper at the colours and light show, which he loved. 

Little bit of silliness between a boy and his mom.

We had the opportunity to meet and listen to a RCMP member talk to us about safety. I was very impressed on how much Iron man and Dragon-Spiderman knew about stranger danger and street safety.

The member talked with the kids on what to do when they are approached by a strangers, how to deal with them, and how to get themselves out of trouble. 

After the discussion the children were able to explore, sit in, push the sirens and turn on lights in the police cruiser. 

The neighbour hood was a little louder then normal that morning.

We also talked about things in life that we need and want, we made our collage to understand a bit more of what God wants us to want. 

The semi weekly feeding of our worm friends. 

Dragon-Spiderman was aloud to join Iron man's dance class this week and had a blast!!!!

Our green house is sprouting up seedlings and the boys sunflowers are up with little leaves. With the spring fever here in our house we worked on some plant mini books. 

Last but not least we worked on measurements, because Iron man needs to have his distances understood if he's flying about everywhere. 

This week we are taking off for spring break, the hero's are visiting family right now and I will be enjoying them in Kelowna for a couple days. See you all in two weeks. 

HAPPY SPRING BREAK!! 

Week of Feb 25 and March 4

With the battle of sickness almost won, I share some tidbits of the last few weeks around our house. We are continuing to work on our family tree of character adding our diligence apple and working on gentleness. We had a special visiter this past week and had the opportunity to discussed that not everyone believes in Jesus or lives their lives to glorify him and therefor our job is to love them not judge them. Hard lesson to have him understand special when it was family and we love them so much.

Math: Angry birds has become a bit of a obsession for my ds lately so anything angry bird themed he will do..math, language arts, printing..you name it...if it has a little bird or ugly pig he will do it with ease :)

We worked on patterns, counting, most or least, addition, and a dice grafting game.

English: We worked on word matching, making his own words, phonics matching, played with our bottle caps making more words. 

We also tried a trial for reading eggs and he has actually loved it. We will be looking into a full subscription for next year. It has lots of reading games that promote phonics, recognizing sight words, understanding sentences, and building reading skills. 

Science, my ds FAVOURITE subject, We read books about volcanos on "We Give Books",  and watched youtube videos on erupting volcanos. My plan is to do a kitchen volcano this next week. 

We are also starting to learn more about life cycles, as we are getting butterflies and praying mantis this spring to watch grow and study their cycles. 

We looked at the frog cycle and worms as we started out worm farm (which actually lives in my sons bedroom) (YUCK!) 

Our frog life cycle. 

We studies worms, we found out that they have 5 hearts, a brain, veins, intestines, and gizzards. We learnt that they do not have lungs, they breath threw their skins and much more. We used this helpful link with a lot of information on worms. Worm Website

Introducing: Bouvier the Worm and Squirmy the Worm. 

Our worm house. 

One last little bit of science and news, our green house is finished!! We went to the local nursery to pick out our seeds, planted some and now are waiting to see them sprout! We are so ready for spring can you tell?