What We Are Reading→
Russian Winter
Knit the Season
On my Kindle: The Rosary
Bob is reading The Hobbit to the boys
On My Waiting to be Read Pile:
Elisabeth Leseur
Theology of the Body for Beginners
Jane Eyre
Brideshead Revisited
How to Read a Book
Around the House→ We put our Christmas tree up yesterday! Our tree has never been up this early, but we were anxious to see if it was going to fit in our family room with our new couch. It fits. I have been inspired by others to finally do a Jesse Tree. I have had the ornament kit for a couple of years, but this year will be the year. I have an idea on how to keep the kids involved each night with the ornaments, without having six of the same ornament on a little Jesse Tree.
Around the Kitchen→ We were busy in the kitchen yesterday. We made rice pudding (for Korea week) in the rice cooker, I think this might be my favorite rice pudding recipe. We made crock pot applesauce, well, Bob cut up the apples and I dumped the stuff in and turned on the crock pot ~ delicious! I also made two pumpkin pies. I’m not sure why I made them two days before Thanksgiving, but I did and they were good.
Feast Day→ While Thanksgiving is not an official “Feast Day” in the Catholic church, most of us will certainly be feasting! For the last couple of years I have been making cranberry sauce. I am not a huge fan of fresh cranberries and the cranberry sauce from the can is just plain disgusting, but I tried this recipe using fresh cranberries and have been hooked ever since. Enjoy!
Discovery Time→
Basic Skills Unit: We read more Korea books as well as some Thanksgiving books.
Jacob ~ Mental Math, Vocabulary, Map Skills
Jonah ~ Handwriting, Phonics, MUS
Sarah ~ Handwriting, Phonics, MUS
Along the Alphabet Path: - K is for Korea. Aside from our Korean stories and rice pudding, we didn’t do too many Korean things. I searched for a simple Korean craft to do, but I didn’t have much luck. I also wanted to purchase the traditional game Yutnori but couldn’t find a source. So, we made play dough and brought out the A-K cookie cutters and they used their Do a Dot Stamps for some letter K review. Here are a few of the books we read over the last couple of weeks:
K is for Korea
Look What We’ve Brought you from Korea
Waiting for Mama
The Royal Bee
The Trip Back Home
The Princess and the Beggar
I am thankful for....Thanksgiving!
5 comments:
Hi Jen!
I can smell your delicious baking from here :) About your Korean craft, several years ago while I was student teaching I had my students make a Korean Dragon Puppet that I found in "The Kid's Multicultural Art Book" by Alexandra Terzian. It was simple and made with a brown paper lunch bag. If you are interested in more information contact me through my blog on my "Contact Me" page and I will be glad to get you the directions :)
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for sharing your post on the Thankful Hearts Blog Hop!
Tracy at
http://www.asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com
Sounds like another productive week. I can't believe you have your tree up already! Please just don't turn the lights on until after Thanksgiving! Can't wait for tomorrow, see you then.
Holy cow! Lots of cooking and baking going on over there! Are you wearing your new apron?
Your K week continues to sound awesome. Such good ideas!
With Stan's unexpected Dr.'s visit today, we really squeezed school in. Finished now...and now off to the store to pick up a few items I forgot for tomorrow.
Sounds like another productive week. I can't believe you have your tree up already! Please just don't turn the lights on until after Thanksgiving! Can't wait for tomorrow, see you then.
My library account is loaded up! Thanks. :)
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