Egypt, East to West & Snow!

We began Unit 4 on Thursday in LHFHG & Bigger...

K enjoyed painting her Egyptian collar (a.k.a. paper plate) with bright colors - she even mixed red/blue to make her own purple paint!

The finished collar being modeled a few hours later once all of the paint was dry! :)  She even wore it again today when we were reading about Joseph.

D added to his timeline for his Biography (George Rogers Clark)...this was supposed to be a dog caught under a tree limb...he told me it looked like a worm.  Sadly, he chose to make it in marker not pencil.  Lesson learned?  Maybe?!

He also added these pictures to the timeline - on the left, George & Grandfather talking though it looks like the Grandfather is in a bathtub (D's words - not mine!).  HA!  On the right - George riding a horse and finding his friend Tom.  We discussed how to draw correct horse legs...not four legs really spread out over a bunch of horse, but two legs close together.  You can see some wide legs have been erased.  :)

The bartering/trading activity that I very much-anticipated D loving, he did not.   I had made a special trip to the bulk candy section of a store I rarely shop, so I could get candy he liked in small amounts without spending a fortune.  He didn't want to trade anything, didn't want to eat any of the candy and didn't want to save it.  He gets in these "I don't want it" moods sometimes for attention or just to be different, I don't know, but it ruins the activity for himself. :(  I had invited K to join us at the beginning of the activity and she LOVED it - she and I enjoyed trading mints/chocolate chips for flavored Tootsie rolls and gumballs so all was not lost. :)

We then read the Ox Cart Man and D really enjoyed it - go figure!  He was even telling daddy last night when sheep are sheared (April - as the book said).

This morning we played in the SNOW!

K's chosen stuffed friends for her family activity to go with the story of Joseph forgiving his brothers...she picked the Panda for Daddy, Hello Kitty for D (good thing he wasn't in the room at the time), her dolls for me and herself, the lamb in a tutu for C.  :)

D's science notebook page had a lot of writing, but he did a great job.  I helped him label the invertebrates but he did the drawings, coloring & other words on the page.  ;)

With his geography today he had to travel north & south and then east & west around the globe.  I explained how east/west never meet...you can go east forever and keep going!  I was reminded of the verse/song that says our sins are as far as the east is from the west!  D's eyes were big...he got it as his finger circled the globe going east and east and east or west and west and west and it never meets!  Our sins are gone! 

Ps. 103:12 "As far as the east is from the west,

so far has he removed our transgressions from us."

He's eating the crackers - being silly for the camera!

 The "world" out of paper & graham crackers with the oceans labeled.