Wordless Wednesday

Adventures in MFW ~ Week 2

Week two went just as wonderfully as week 1!! We had a few things come up that pushed us back a day or two, so we ended up doing some catch up work on Sunday.

This week the focus was on Christopher Columbus and his voyage. They learned the rhyme:

In fourteen hundred ninety-two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

This is the first timeline figure that I made. The one we actually used is slightly modified. I drew 3 ships and wrote: 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue (to N. America). I made two of these and put one on our American History timeline and one on our World History Timeline. They love seeing how these match up!

Wordless Wednesday 4/23/08

This boy can fall asleep anywhere! This was during the little movie at the Andrew Johnson Museum.

Adventures in MFW ~ Week 1

I'm so happy! I believe we've found *it*!! Just what I've been looking for. It's not terribly teacher intensive, yet there are a variety of activities! I love it!

Last Sunday we had puppies... that was a learning experience for us all!!

Monday we started Adventures in My Father's World. We talked about names and the fact that they have meaning. We chose to do an activity not listed... We made bookmarks with our names, then decorated them with stickers. On the back I wrote what the names mean. The best part was that I got to use my nifty laminating machine when we were done!! :). Here's mine:

I think that they had the most fun on Thursday when we talked about Leif Eriksson. I read the assigned pages from Exploring American History, and we discussed the origin of Vikings. They had fun retelling me (with the World map) the exact route that was taken. Here is the figure we added to our American History Timeline.

Today (Sunday) we finished with our Science Experiment that was supposed to be completed on Thursday. Will an egg float in regular water? Will it float in salt water?

PUPPIES!!

The day has finally come!

Michael was leaving for work (6pm), he looked over at the dog, and saw 4 puppies! I ran inside trying to figure out what to do with them. He then informed me that #5 was coming out!

Michael left for work and I brought puppy #5 and Charlie inside. About 30 minutes later #6 came along. Around 8:30 the little one came. Now, I have no idea when #8 arrived. I started counting and there was 8. I recounted just to make sure. There were still 8.

UPDATED: We have 6 boys and 2 girls. The two at the bottom are girls.