Morning Time
This is a 60-90 minute time where all the kids come together and we spend time singing, memorizing scripture, and reading from a variety of different material from poetry, to shakespeare, to science and more.
Morning Time Reading List:
Ongoing
-Who is God? Apologia ( 1 chapter per week or two)
-The Jesus Story Book Bible (one story a day)
-Window on the World(learning about different people groups and praying for them)
-You Can Change The World by Jill Johnstone
-Wordly Wise Book 4 -1 lesson a week (learning definitions of words, putting the words in sentences, defining the words, reading selections with vocab words and answering comprehension questions)
-Missionary Stories by the Millers
-The Usborne Book of Famous Paintings
-The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury by Jack Prelutsky (1-4 poems a day)
-Apologia Zoology
Completed
-A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare Can Be Fun
--Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Can Be Fun
-Poems for Young People by Robert Louis Stevenson (1-3 poems a day)
-Rembrandt and the Boy who Drew Dogs by Molly Blaisdell
--Children's Book of Heroes by William . Bennett (completed)
-Scholastic Canada Biographies Canadian Explorers by Maxine Trottier
Bible
Memory Verse
Signed up for the Heritage Memory Verse Challenge.
Aiden-35 verses
Caileigh-35 verses
Mikayla-10 verses
"God is our rock and our salvation" Psalm 62:2
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come."
2 Cor. 5:17
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:105
"We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that we may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the father and with His son, Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
"This is love for God, to obey His commands for His commands are not burdensome." 1 John 5:3
"You shall have no other Gods before me." Exodus 20:3
Sunday School
Each week the kids are responsible to bring their Bible, something for others (money or food item) and know their memory verse for Sunday School. The kids are rewarded accordingly, however, if the child does not know their memory verse, they do not receive any other rewards for the completing the other tasks.
-Reciting memory verse in front of the church as a Sunday School class.
The kids created art work with scripture.
The next 13 weeks will be spent going through the 10 commandments. For Sunday School this year we have combined two classes so the ages now range from 3-9. We will be pairing up younger students with older students. We want to encourage good team work, older students modelling for younger students and building relationships with varied ages.
Watching through "What's in the Bible" DVD series for summer sunday school.
Family Study
Continuing with "Leading Little Hearts to God."
Book 1-A Child's Book of Character Building
-Reading about a character trait, discussing how to put it into practice
-reading Proverbs to go with it.
-Wisdom and The Millers
Apologia -Who is God?
-Learning that God is our rock. Learning ways to build your life upon Him, eg. reading the Bible, praying.
-Learning how to know "what is truth". Learning that our senses don't always tell the truth.
-Learning what worldview is and how drastically it changes depending on whether you have a biblical worldview or a worldview that doesn't include God.
-Working through various questions that show the attributes of God and answer What is God like, eg. Does God Exist?, How Many Gods Are There?, What Does God Look Like?, Is God a person?, does God ever sin?, How old is God?, Does God ever change, Where is God, How Strong is God and How Much Does God Know?.
-Introduced to words like omnipotent, omnipotent and omniscient.
Prayer/Service
The kids felt strongly about praying every day for a woman who lives down the street who was going for testing to discover if she had cancer. They prayed every day and just found out that she is cancer free! It was very exciting for them to see this answered prayer.
Our little friend Justice (2 1/2) who lives down the road from us was just diagnosed with Leukemia last week. The kids held a lemonade stand to raise money for the family. They also helped to take a meal to the family. Praying daily. It was faith strengthening to see this boy be healed from what the doctors said would be brain damage from a reaction to one of the medications.
Learning what it means to love others. Brainstorming ways that we can serve as a family and trying to act on this like we are commanded in James to be "doers" not just "hearers". Encouraging each of the kids to think of ways that they can individually serve, eg. drawing pictures for others, giving away toys, etc.
"A new command I give to you: love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another." John 13:34-35
Visiting the seniors home to take cards and cookies to a woman from our church who has recently moved in.
Helping to make and deliver meals to a family when a member was sick.
Cleaning the church to help a friend. Aiden vacuumed while Mikayla and Caileigh cleaned windows.
Helping to set up Sunday School for the year by re-arranging tables, moving toys, vacuuming etc.
Helping in the kitchen to serve goodies after church and facilitating clean up. The kids really enjoyed this and requested to sign up more!
Language Arts
Read/Aloud
(The Boxcar Children are a favourite for all 5 children!)
The Boxcar Children # 5 by Gertrude Chandler Warren
The Boxcar Children # 8
The Boxcar Children #11
The Boxcar Children #12
The Boxcar Children #14
The Secret World of Og (reading this as a "book club"with our friends) by Pierre Berton
Buffalo Before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osbourne
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (Audio CD)
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo (Audio CD)
Hedge of Thorns by Lamplighter (audio CD)
Adventures in Odyssey (Audio CD)
Hello Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Farm by Betty MacDonald
The Broken Blade by William Durbin
Social Studies
Watched "Canada for Children". Includes information about first nations, Canada's history with european settlements and fur trades, geography, etc. Includes three programs, the culture, geography and history.
Watched a video on Henry Hudson.
Explorer Studies
Read The Canadian Reader-Issue 1 and discussed some of the stories.
-Reading Scholastic Canada Biographies-Canadian Explorers by Maxine Trottier
-includes Samuel de Champlain, Pierre de la Verendrye, Samuel Hearne, Jaques Cartier, David Thompson
After reading about Jaques Cartier, creating a note booking page.
Also read additional information from "Pebble Go" a heritage online subscription
Reading The Broken Blade by William Durbin about the fur trade. A fantastic adventure about the bravery and hard work of the voyageurs of the fur trade. Learning facts about this time in history throughout the book.
Aboriginal Studies
A field trip to Xat-sull native centre.
After the field trip we had some discussions over dinner about some of the things we had seen and learned about. We discussed how difficult it can be for natives to hold on to their heritage and culture with the changes in society and technology. We asked the kids about some ways they thought this might be so. Aiden thought that video games and TV might change how much time native children spend outdoors learning about their culture. We also discussed a bit of the history surrounding residential schools and how detrimental that was to native culture. We talked about the horrible way children were treated.
We're working through The Aboriginal People of Canada Digital Unit Study from Heritage learning commons.
-We created a KWL chart and brainstormed all the things we currently know about aboriginals, and what we would like to learn about.
-We discussed how aboriginal culture was passed down orally to each generation. We listened to two different stories, one Cree and one Ojibwe and completed some discussion questions about the stories.
-Each of the kids created some native inspired art work.
Science
Getting Magic School Bus videos from the library each week. Topics like the body, space, food chains, habitats, adaptations, and more.
The kids created a "water works".
Apologia Zoology
-Introduction-chapter 1- predators and prey, God made the animals, creation confirmation, studying animals, habituation, animal careers, zoologist, pet careers.
Experiment-to discover camouflage, natural selection. Notebooking about experiment and learning.
Chapter 2-Carnivorous Mammals-Habitats-Dogs, canine communication, canine construction, canine senses, hunting, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, raccoon dogs, african wild dogs.
Notebooking on learning.
Chapter 3-Caniforms Continued -Habitats- Bear information, Bear safety, Brown bears, american black bears, polar bears, sun bears, giant pandas,
Chapter 11- Reading about snakes and lizards. Learning about their characteristics, feeding habits, habitats, physical characteristics, etc.
Watching videos about snakes and lizards from the Apologia site.
Co-Op
Heritage learning camp about music and motion.
Learning about the use of an incubator to help grow chicks.
The kids all got to hold and observe 10 day old baby chicks.
Exploring spin painting by putting paint into a salad spinner!
We got together and made barbecue sauce for the Dad's for Father's Day. We made four separate batches so each of the children got an opportunity to help.
Art/Painting Days
Water colour painting
Show and Tell
This is a 60-90 minute time where all the kids come together and we spend time singing, memorizing scripture, and reading from a variety of different material from poetry, to shakespeare, to science and more.
Morning Time Reading List:
Ongoing
-Who is God? Apologia ( 1 chapter per week or two)
-The Jesus Story Book Bible (one story a day)
-Window on the World(learning about different people groups and praying for them)
-You Can Change The World by Jill Johnstone
-Wordly Wise Book 4 -1 lesson a week (learning definitions of words, putting the words in sentences, defining the words, reading selections with vocab words and answering comprehension questions)
-Missionary Stories by the Millers
-The Usborne Book of Famous Paintings
-The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury by Jack Prelutsky (1-4 poems a day)
-Apologia Zoology
Completed
-A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare Can Be Fun
--Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Can Be Fun
-Poems for Young People by Robert Louis Stevenson (1-3 poems a day)
-Rembrandt and the Boy who Drew Dogs by Molly Blaisdell
--Children's Book of Heroes by William . Bennett (completed)
-Scholastic Canada Biographies Canadian Explorers by Maxine Trottier
Bible
Memory Verse
Signed up for the Heritage Memory Verse Challenge.
Aiden-35 verses
Caileigh-35 verses
Mikayla-10 verses
"God is our rock and our salvation" Psalm 62:2
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come."
2 Cor. 5:17
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:105
"We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that we may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the father and with His son, Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
"This is love for God, to obey His commands for His commands are not burdensome." 1 John 5:3
"You shall have no other Gods before me." Exodus 20:3
Sunday School
Each week the kids are responsible to bring their Bible, something for others (money or food item) and know their memory verse for Sunday School. The kids are rewarded accordingly, however, if the child does not know their memory verse, they do not receive any other rewards for the completing the other tasks.
-Reciting memory verse in front of the church as a Sunday School class.
The kids created art work with scripture.
The next 13 weeks will be spent going through the 10 commandments. For Sunday School this year we have combined two classes so the ages now range from 3-9. We will be pairing up younger students with older students. We want to encourage good team work, older students modelling for younger students and building relationships with varied ages.
Watching through "What's in the Bible" DVD series for summer sunday school.
Family Study
Continuing with "Leading Little Hearts to God."
Book 1-A Child's Book of Character Building
-Reading about a character trait, discussing how to put it into practice
-reading Proverbs to go with it.
-Wisdom and The Millers
Apologia -Who is God?
-Learning that God is our rock. Learning ways to build your life upon Him, eg. reading the Bible, praying.
-Learning how to know "what is truth". Learning that our senses don't always tell the truth.
-Learning what worldview is and how drastically it changes depending on whether you have a biblical worldview or a worldview that doesn't include God.
-Working through various questions that show the attributes of God and answer What is God like, eg. Does God Exist?, How Many Gods Are There?, What Does God Look Like?, Is God a person?, does God ever sin?, How old is God?, Does God ever change, Where is God, How Strong is God and How Much Does God Know?.
-Introduced to words like omnipotent, omnipotent and omniscient.
Prayer/Service
The kids felt strongly about praying every day for a woman who lives down the street who was going for testing to discover if she had cancer. They prayed every day and just found out that she is cancer free! It was very exciting for them to see this answered prayer.
Our little friend Justice (2 1/2) who lives down the road from us was just diagnosed with Leukemia last week. The kids held a lemonade stand to raise money for the family. They also helped to take a meal to the family. Praying daily. It was faith strengthening to see this boy be healed from what the doctors said would be brain damage from a reaction to one of the medications.
Learning what it means to love others. Brainstorming ways that we can serve as a family and trying to act on this like we are commanded in James to be "doers" not just "hearers". Encouraging each of the kids to think of ways that they can individually serve, eg. drawing pictures for others, giving away toys, etc.
"A new command I give to you: love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another." John 13:34-35
Visiting the seniors home to take cards and cookies to a woman from our church who has recently moved in.
Helping to make and deliver meals to a family when a member was sick.
Cleaning the church to help a friend. Aiden vacuumed while Mikayla and Caileigh cleaned windows.
Helping to set up Sunday School for the year by re-arranging tables, moving toys, vacuuming etc.
Helping in the kitchen to serve goodies after church and facilitating clean up. The kids really enjoyed this and requested to sign up more!
Language Arts
Read/Aloud
(The Boxcar Children are a favourite for all 5 children!)
The Boxcar Children # 5 by Gertrude Chandler Warren
The Boxcar Children # 8
The Boxcar Children #11
The Boxcar Children #12
The Boxcar Children #14
The Secret World of Og (reading this as a "book club"with our friends) by Pierre Berton
Buffalo Before Breakfast by Mary Pope Osbourne
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (Audio CD)
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo (Audio CD)
Hedge of Thorns by Lamplighter (audio CD)
Adventures in Odyssey (Audio CD)
Hello Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Farm by Betty MacDonald
The Broken Blade by William Durbin
Social Studies
Watched "Canada for Children". Includes information about first nations, Canada's history with european settlements and fur trades, geography, etc. Includes three programs, the culture, geography and history.
Watched a video on Henry Hudson.
Explorer Studies
Read The Canadian Reader-Issue 1 and discussed some of the stories.
-Reading Scholastic Canada Biographies-Canadian Explorers by Maxine Trottier
-includes Samuel de Champlain, Pierre de la Verendrye, Samuel Hearne, Jaques Cartier, David Thompson
After reading about Jaques Cartier, creating a note booking page.
Also read additional information from "Pebble Go" a heritage online subscription
Reading The Broken Blade by William Durbin about the fur trade. A fantastic adventure about the bravery and hard work of the voyageurs of the fur trade. Learning facts about this time in history throughout the book.
Aboriginal Studies
A field trip to Xat-sull native centre.
After the field trip we had some discussions over dinner about some of the things we had seen and learned about. We discussed how difficult it can be for natives to hold on to their heritage and culture with the changes in society and technology. We asked the kids about some ways they thought this might be so. Aiden thought that video games and TV might change how much time native children spend outdoors learning about their culture. We also discussed a bit of the history surrounding residential schools and how detrimental that was to native culture. We talked about the horrible way children were treated.
We're working through The Aboriginal People of Canada Digital Unit Study from Heritage learning commons.
-We created a KWL chart and brainstormed all the things we currently know about aboriginals, and what we would like to learn about.
-We discussed how aboriginal culture was passed down orally to each generation. We listened to two different stories, one Cree and one Ojibwe and completed some discussion questions about the stories.
-Each of the kids created some native inspired art work.
-We learned about "winter counts". Each child brainstormed a symbol to represent something momentous in each year of their life. They then created a winter count using these symbols. We referred to a Picture Dictionary for ideas.
Aiden enjoyed making symbols out of sticks outside in various places around the yard. Here he illustrated a hunter.
-Aiden created a drum using an old yogourt container.
-The kids created teepees out of paper.
-We read, "Buffalo Before Breakfast", by Mary Pope Osbourne.
-We watched "Aboriginal People of Canada; Then and Now.
-We read an article that discussed how aboriginal people groups were similar in terms of food, clothing, hunting, ceremonies, housing etc. We learned how every single part of the Buffalo was used by the natives.
-Created a "talking stick", using stick, ribbon, feathers and beads.
-We read, "Sign of the Beaver".
-Read about food, shelter, religion, art, family, etc. about each group, The forest people, plains people, arctic people
-Aiden made a teepee outside
The kids made maps showing the different native groups in Canada.
-We read, "Sign of the Beaver".
-Read about food, shelter, religion, art, family, etc. about each group, The forest people, plains people, arctic people
-Aiden made a teepee outside
The kids made maps showing the different native groups in Canada.
Each child wrote their own "legend".
(Aiden's)
(Mikayla's)
(Caileigh's)
While in Powell River, Aiden and Caileigh visited the local museum. They learned about local natives in the area. They learned what some of the animals symbols meant.
While in Vancouver, Aiden and Caileigh went to see the show, "Fly Over Canada" at Canada Place. It is an incredibly thrilling video showing Canada from east to west coast. They thoroughly enjoyed this!
Getting Magic School Bus videos from the library each week. Topics like the body, space, food chains, habitats, adaptations, and more.
The kids created a "water works".
-Introduction-chapter 1- predators and prey, God made the animals, creation confirmation, studying animals, habituation, animal careers, zoologist, pet careers.
Experiment-to discover camouflage, natural selection. Notebooking about experiment and learning.
Chapter 2-Carnivorous Mammals-Habitats-Dogs, canine communication, canine construction, canine senses, hunting, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, raccoon dogs, african wild dogs.
Notebooking on learning.
Chapter 3-Caniforms Continued -Habitats- Bear information, Bear safety, Brown bears, american black bears, polar bears, sun bears, giant pandas,
Chapter 11- Reading about snakes and lizards. Learning about their characteristics, feeding habits, habitats, physical characteristics, etc.
Watching videos about snakes and lizards from the Apologia site.
Walks to observe and look at different habitats. Observing plants, bugs, animals, birds. Discussing
living/nonliving.
Health and Career
Went to a Fall Craft at the Library. Learned about the changes occurring in Autumn and made candle holders.
Camping as a Family. Activities included fishing, bike riding, swimming, exploring.
Safety and Injury Prevention
Book List
All About Drugs".
Lot's of discussions on what drugs are, both medicinal and recreational. Reasons why people might abuse drugs, why it is unsafe, different types, how we can stand firm against them, etc.
Lot's of learning and discussion about the process of adoption as we follow along with the Kaspers and their adoption journey. Different kinds of families.
Healthy Living
Book List
"Dinosaurs Alive and Well, A Guide to Good Health"
Learning about eating well (includes discussion about vitamins, minerals, protein, iron), proper body cleaning (hand washing, hair washing, bathing), exercising your mind and body, emotional health (talking with people, properly handling emotions, prayer)
"I can Take Care of My Body".
Learning about proper hygiene practices. Learning about puberty changes such as body odour, body hair, etc. Stranger safety, bullying and "safe" and "unsafe" touches.
Discussing the difference between communicable and non-comunicable diseases. We discussed two of our friends that currently are fighting from leukaemia and why this is a non-comunicalbe disease. We have lot's of experience with pink eye a very communicable illness! We went through a list of different sicknesses/illneses and the kids would guess which ones fit into which category. A few that we discussed, diabetes, flu/colds, cancer, ebola, pink eye, etc.
Caring for our neighbour's seven chickens and vegetable garden. The kids made sure the chickens had fresh food and water each day and let the chickens out to roam and then would have fun catching them again.
PE
The kids running up and down the road with the Kasper girls for "running club".
Practicing baseball skills with the Kasper girls and playing mock games. eg. hitting, catching
Learning how to skip with a large skipping rope. Great fun as we sing along with poems and songs.
Co-Op
Heritage learning camp about music and motion.
Learning about the use of an incubator to help grow chicks.
The kids all got to hold and observe 10 day old baby chicks.
Holding full grown chickens!
Courtenay brought over a variety of different instruments from around the world. She shared with the kids a little about each instrument and what sound they make. The kids had an opportunity to try a few and to dance to the rhythm. We had the kids make their own musical shakers out of recycled water bottles.
We got together and made barbecue sauce for the Dad's for Father's Day. We made four separate batches so each of the children got an opportunity to help.
Art/Painting Days
Water colour painting
Aiden's
Caileigh's
Mikayla's
Sparkly water colour fish
An eg. of Aiden's
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