Week in Review

Well, actually this is weeks 2,3, and 4 in review.  I've gotten a little behind in the blogging area lately.  This week especially, my hubby has had a few days off lately and we've taken some family time.  So this week has been a field trip on Monday, Zoo Class on Wednesday and then St. Louis Zoo on Friday.

So lets begin back a few weeks to Week 2 of Adventures in U.S. History.  We talked about Christopher Columbus that week, and did some fun activities.  We made boats out of foil, which obviously were the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.  Then we got to have some fun outside seeing if they would float.  Well let me just tell you, they did not!  Thankfully my boys went with it and had fun anyway.

We also talked about Jesus that week.  We learned that Jesus means the Lord saves.  We started our poster that we will add to for the rest of the year.

In Week 3 we began talking about Jamestown.  We learned about Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. We began reading Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims.

For our Bible we craft time we made a crayon melting with the name Jesus and then hung them up in our school room windows.

Finally this week we have been working on Week 4 in Adventures in U.S. History.  This week we have been talking about Native Americans.  We have been learning about the different tribes that we located here in the early days.  Our crafts this week have been a wigwam and a teepee.

Our new Bible concept this week has been that Jesus is the Light of the World.  We have been working on John 8:12 which is "I am the light of the world.  Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Moving on the what we have been learning in Kindergarten these past few weeks.  We finished up our Creation Unit, we learned about what God created on each day.  Then we moved on to learning about the Sun and the letter S.  Our first experiment with the sun was making raisins.  That hasn't turned out well for us, they are still sitting in our kitchen, slowly wrinkling up.  The second project we did was making a sun dial.  That actually turned out well, once I got the placement correct.

This week we have been talking about the Moon, and learning the letter M.  Unfortunately with all of our field trips and such this week, we haven't gotten to do many experiments or projects.  We have read some great books about the phases of the moon though.

There you have it, our last few weeks.  I am hoping to do a weekly post on what we have been learning.  So keep an eye out for those!