April Post

IN the FIAR book "Mirette and the HIgh WIre" This lustrous book depicts colored scenes of "Paris 100 years ago" The heroine helps her Mother run a reputable boarding house and does her chores and cooking cheerfully. We renacted a boarding house meal. The children were delighted to greet Dad at the door ask him for his hat .. hand him a newspaper and then show him the menu and the charges. See video as well:)Mary was excited to make him a place card with his name and to put o a n apron:)Bellin is a mystery boarder and also his rope contained copper so we leanred about Copper and discussed what could contain copper. Daddy is quite the expert on this as he enjoys metals and works with them. We had a great talk about The Statue of Liberty and Oxidization. The weight of pennies and the softness of copper. Also the mixtures and their names.. of copper and other metals. Copper being a base element and its symbol is CU. Mum's hair also appears to be copper too:)

Here is the planner that we looked at that shows the Passover beginning and end. The children were able to see time that was predicted and then slot it into the calendar and see how it fitted in .

The children added yeast to flour to see the effects it would have. They baked a bread "cookie" with leaven. We talked about the Passover bread having no yeast in it.

Aidan

Mary

THis week we discussed the Nation of Isreal and also the Jewish Holocaust in a gentle and sensitive matter. Giving the children a gentle visual of the camps that Jews were marched too and then a small explanation of the folly of following one person and the sad persecution of the Jewish people. Mary asked if we could visit the camp and I said that some people do take a Pilgimage as it were to visit and reflect . We recollected some of our Old Testament stories and then the chidlren and I talked about God's amazing plan through history. The Uniqueness and preciousness of The Nation of Isreal and that we as Gentiles are truly blessed to be included in such a plan as God's Salvation! The children did a creative thinking brainstorm bubble and the above is their little writings on their reflections on som eof the things that we had considered. In the FIAR book "Mrs. Katz. and Tush" The Passover and the life of a Jewish/Polish elderly lady and her new friend a boy.. are told. In the FIAR Volume we read about percentages of dialects or language contained in Yiddish. So I drew a pie (MATH) and we observed as Mum seperated up 100%. Everything always to leads to tens it seems .. as our SIngapore books have told us many times.This is our chicken scratch as it were. The children observed and colored.

Upon being asked about a couple of her many pictures that she draws.. Mary informed me that the larger page was for a Car's Learning Center(baby in mind) and that the squares show the growth of a bunny from Ages one to four. The second picture is of a Wolf Howling at the Moon.

Freedom of Religion and Speech

We started Freedoms of Canada in our "Canada My Country" Here is an example of Mary and Aidan's worksheets

-Aidan

-Mary

In the FIAR book "A New Coat For Anna"We talked about work well done" The children wrote down their ideas on things that they had helped with or taken part in in order to achieve a "Job Well Done"

What started out as a simple "FInd Capitals all over the house" task for Mary for her LLATL Lesson became a full on competition for the kids to find , track amd write on the white board(note the squares..I told them that one was left and one was right )

They were completely absorbed in finding letters.It became a complicated mass of squares and code. But they understood that THEY got to tick the boxes. Aidan took on the responsibility of pourin g out the heavy sandbags for the babies sand box. Mary helped too. We bought the shell in the sales at the end of the SUmmer and had stashed it. We were so pleased to bring the shell and some bags of sand together for baby!

Baby was so cute and enjoying new experiences. Thanks AUnty for this Bike buggy.

I think Aidan is the dot on the beach:)

Daddy on his way home from work hopped off of his long drive home and joined us for a picnic on the beach.

We drove away from the rainy spring hills of Mission.. taking some chances and beating the clouds to arrive at Crescent Beach .. a well kept public.... residential beach which is pristinely watched over by the City of White Rock and residents. .. A sunny .. perfect evening and picnic on the beach.. The children.. disappeared out upon the beach ..occupied.

Walk along the Fraser River with cousins. This is in Fort Langley ..beside the original Fort .. the location where the Traders came up the river and landed .

On that day we drove from MIssion across the Fraser, through Bradner and ended up on the Langley side of the River. We drove by along the South side of the river winding our way past a Navy Base, Float Plane docks and then followed the train which was driving straight as an arrow beside us. Kellen's eyes were as big as saucers that day! We came up right from behind the Fort and met Aunty and cousins.

Sorry this is sideways!

Young Wooddpecker that we have been tracking.. showed back up.

March Post

Mary's descriptive writing, title and thoughts on wells.
FIAR Three names descriptive writing, titles and thoughts on wells..

Mary's own title and sketch.

Sorry for sidewaysness.. Aidan;s own title and sketch.

Mary's Woodland Habitat

Aidan's Woodland Habitat.

Aidan's monochrome comparison sketches.

Mary's monochrome comparison sketches.

Aidan's windspeed predictions

Mary's windspeed .predictions

Ottawa worksheets




Science and math whiz Grandad Karesa teaching about steam. We referred him to "Mike Mulligan"

Playing a faux hockey game on the back porch.

Eating healthy apple snacks and soaking in the sun.

Bushnell science kit, kids and piano

Waiting for 90km winds to hit the coast. It sure kicked up some gusts. Mom ran and found our nifty Bushnell weather kit that has been kicking around from year 1 of HS and we took out the wind gauge. Lining up the instument was necessary. Prediction and observation were all needed. "The gauge did hit the top"(-Aidan)

Aidan playing darts with Dad on the side of the DW. this is a winner with the kids.

Catching some Spring snow on a local hill . First time sledding with $2 tubes that we found at WInners!

Uncle Ashley showing the kids some guitar moves impromtu at a birthday party. It appears the guitar did not float away in the flood

Mary practicing her piano lessons.

Aidan filming his first Lego building tip video.

February post

Mary's Ocean Biodome and list. She really enjoys lists and pictures.
BLOG - Aidan's biodome lapbook cover and a list of varying foods that the children were asked to remember from the reading of "The Night of the Moonjellies" a book about a child's perspective of a day in the life of his grandparents beach diner business and a relaxing time out on the ocean after.

AN additional photo of our worksheets on the Queen and in the center the children's narrated thoughts and testing on what a Citizen is.

BLOG - The children's Stephen Harper/Voting and Citizen ship Socials worksheets.

They especially enjoyed the friednly photo of him holding a cat that Mum let them pick from varying photos.

Kellen joining in with the art.

An example of a successful day in which a multi child homeschool lesson is taught. While Mary was comfortable in independantly continuing with her English Lesson tasks .. Aidan does a spelling test.

BLOG - Mary enjoyed reading the story of George Washington. She then copied a verse that she thought reflected Gearge Washington's character.

BLOG - Biscuits that we made . Inspired by "Chef at Home"

www.foodnetwork.ca/ontv.shows/Chef-at-Home/show.html

Playing rollercoaster in a simple large box.

Or rub a dub dub.

Aidan and Mary making sugar cookies for Dad.

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C ommunity Map.

Mary 's Seasonal Journal that we bound.

Mary's story and picture.
The inside of our circular compass lapbook. Insdie we have pasted our personification story and pictures. This was inspired by "Katy and the Big Snow" and part of our FIAR curriculum .


MAry's thought's and Illustrations of her observations from Sunday School class.

Aidan 's thoughts and Illustation of his observations from Sunday School class.

Canada Our Country..Lesson 14

LLATL drwing done by Mary. Mary was asked to draw a picture of her room and how she felt when she went to sleep.

Mary starting in on some major math concepts in Singapore. We use the egg cartons to make 10's.

Mary is working on her LLATL lesson.

Here she was asked to pick 5 cards out of our blended word index cards tht we have been creating all year. SHe then in turn was asked to pick the matching consonats and vowels that make up the word.

FIAR book "Storm in the Night"

The chidren have just finished drawing their light and shadow art . They have started in on their geoboards. Making elastic geometric shapes...this was in the FIAR curriculum also













A few examples of some of the work that we covered over this three week period.