Our Five in a Row book this week is Madeline. 
We've read it before just for fun, but haven't used it in a unit study. D&K enjoyed listening to it today. In the story, Madeline needs her appendix out. When the story was over, both D&K asked if they need to have theirs out. I assured them they are fine, if they weren't they would have really bad pains in their sides. Hopefully, they won't be like this every time we read the story this week. :oS
We've read it before just for fun, but haven't used it in a unit study. D&K enjoyed listening to it today. In the story, Madeline needs her appendix out. When the story was over, both D&K asked if they need to have theirs out. I assured them they are fine, if they weren't they would have really bad pains in their sides. Hopefully, they won't be like this every time we read the story this week. :oSWe discussed how the girls in the book are orderly...their lines to go places/do things and their schedule. We realized order is good and was created by God. D looked up a few verses in the Psalms that deals with God ordering the steps of man and talked about ways we can do what God wants us to do...so our lives our orderly. (Obey God, those in authority over us, read our Bible & learn more about Jesus, etc)
K enjoyed the pictures...
The story takes place in France and so the kids found France on the globe and stuck Madeline to it! They also colored the flag of France and colored France in Europe for little mini books to go in their Madeline lapbooks.
The story takes place in France and so the kids found France on the globe and stuck Madeline to it! They also colored the flag of France and colored France in Europe for little mini books to go in their Madeline lapbooks.
The best activity of the day was building the Eiffel Tower out of vanilla wafers & icing!
I would have thought D, being the Lego-Zoob-Tinkertoy-Skyrail builder that he is, would have had the most solid structure...not so, he was more interested in licking the icing off his fingers. 
D's tower is in trouble!!! (It fell just seconds after I took this pic!) :o(
The kids colored their own little France flags for the top of their towers (toothpicks & a blank address label folded over). K was so proud of her work!
She really enjoyed eating the top of the tower as a special treat BEFORE lunch today!
Here are all the Madeline books from our bookshelves & the library...I even checked out the DVD of the Madeline movie to watch one day.
I'm finding that our FIAR activites take about 45 minutes. The kids do their independent work (math, LA, HWT, etc) on either side of the time and so far, 5 days into the school year, it's working well. C is getting her fill of preschool shows on Netflix, DVDS or PBS during that time...not ideal, but it works right now. I'm hoping she'll do more indpendent activities (busy bags) as the year goes on and she gets a little older. :o)
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