Family Term 2

Morning Time

Read-Aloud
* The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
*The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
*Bartholomews Passage (each day of Advent)
*Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
*The Penderwicks at Pointe Moquette By Jeanne Birdsall

Bible

Jesse Tree-Reading scripture and adding ornament on our tree each morning

Operation Christmas
-Each child put together a box for a child of similar age


Bible Reading 
-Reading in Proverbs each morning and discussing (on hold for December)
-Reading Daniel

Window on the World
-Reading about a different country each day.  Praying for it.  Adding the prayer request to our world map.
-Afghanistan
-Albania
-Balinese
-Baloch
-Bangladesh
-Bijago
-China

Awana

-Each child working on weekly Awana assignments
-learning about biblical dinosaurs
-Learning about attributes of God  He is Holy, good, powerful

Church Dinner
-Younger three kids sang.



Apologia
-Are you making wise decisions?
-Why people make unwise decisions
-How to make wise decisions

Participating in Operation Christmas Child.  Each child creating a box to help children in other
countries.

Reader's Theater at the Kaspers.  The kids loved this experience of getting to read lines and act out different scripts.
Have attended 2 sessions.

Health and Career

-Making goals of work we want to complete before Christmas break

-Discussing and choosing projects to work on over Christmas break.  e.g.. photography, wood building project, crocheting, etc.

-Older two considering entering photography contest through Heritage

-playing Apples to Apples game as a family

Work Ethic/Skills

It has recently come to my attention that my older three have been doing poorly in work ethic.  They are amazing at getting their work done, but they are lacking the element of doing their work well.  We have been having many discussion about why it is important to do all that we do, well.  I have sat down with the older three and explained which areas I see them slacking off and we have come up with plans so they can do better.  I will be implementing Friday Meetings with each of them so we can evaluate the week and come up with a plan for the following week. I am hoping this helps me to stay in tune with what is happening.

Science
Apologia Chemistry and Physics 
Chapter 3-Building Blocks of Creation
-variety of atoms
-attaching atoms
-Atom anatomy
-Charged up  - pluses and minuses

Videos
-Atoms (Brain Pop)
-Chemical Bonds (Brain Pop)
-Common Properties of Matter (Discovery Education)
-Water and Sodium reacting (you tube)
-Water and Sodium reacting (Apologia link)
-interactive periodic table (Science4Kidz)

Activities
-experiment with yeast and Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)
-making atom models using paper plates and various sized candy
-using Lego to show how atoms attach
-making sugar cookie periodic table

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Compound Chemistry-Chapter 4
Crystals
-Diamonds
-Pressure and Heat
-THe 4 C's
-Putty, Plastics and pencil erasers

Videos
Plastic (Brain Pop)
Crystals (Brain Pop)
Physical and Chemical Changes (BrainPopJr)
What are Chemical Changes?  (Discovery Education)
King of Chemical Reactions (Discovery Education)
Physical and Chemical Changes for kids (you tube)
Physical and Chemical changes (scholastic study jam)  plus quiz.  Got 7/7
Physical and Chemical change (you tube)

Activities
-making plastic balls
-melting styrofoam-We tried this experiment many different ways and were never able to make it successful.  It was a great opportunity for us to discuss why experiments don't work, what we could do differently, etc.
-making magic goop
-making a chemical reaction with geyser
-vinegar/penny physical reaction
-making and letting off a smoke bomb

Mixtures and Solutions-Chapter 5
-Heterogenous Mixtures
   -suspension
-Homogenous Mixtures
   -solution, solute, solvent, universal solvent
-Polar Bonds in Water
-Alloys
-Colloids
   -Tyndall effect, gel, aerosol, foam, emulsion
-Diluted vs. Concentrated
-Separating mixtures
   -Evaporation, filtration, sifting, magnetism, chromatography

Videos 
-Solutions at Work (Learn 360)
-Compounds and Mixtures (Brain Pop)
-Eulachon (Discovery Education)
-Chromatography (you tube)

Activities
-Experimenting with interaction between oil and water
-Watching carbonated drink and raisins
-Mixing oil and water
-Bubble Experimenting
-Creating different bubble solution experiment
-Watching molecules move using milk and detergent
-Having snack as a heterogenous mixture and using sifting to separate the materials
-Making a water filter

Lesson 6-Mechanics in Motion

-Newton's First Law of Motion

-Newton's Second Law of Motion

-Newton's Third Law of Motion

Videos

Fantastic Physics (Learn 360)

Forces (Brain Pop)

Newton's Laws of Motion & Quiz (Brain Pop) 

Gravity-Magic School Bus

Activities

-watching force through two experiments with pennies

-Using Forces and Motion conducted a variety of experiments to show Newtons First Law

World's Great Secrets Video Series
-Tsunami
-Water


Biblical Dinosaurs
-4 Awana presentations on material
-The Mammoth and the Ice Age (video)
-Dinosaurs and Dragon Legends (video)
-Answers in Genesis-Buddy Davis's Adventures Dig Dinosaurs (video)

Remembrance Day

Attended remembrance day service in 100 Mile.  
Created remembrance day art work.
Created remembrance day poetry.
Worked through remembrance day activity sheets.


Project Presentation Day

Bowling

Exploration/Sledding in the Valley