Around the House :: This week wraps up our first full six weeks of our learning year. So far so good. I’m really happy with our schedule and really happy with our curriculum choices.
In the Kitchen :: We were busy with our theme/feast dinners this week. See below. The last couple of Monday’s I have been posting our meal plan for the week on my facebook page. Feel free to join in and share yours too.
Faith :: On Tuesday we celebrated the feast day of St. Andrew Kim and Companions. We read his story in Saints for Young Readers for Every Day and then we read The Royal Bee. Last year when we got to letter K, we did K is for Korea. Here and here shows some of the other things we have done to celebrate Korea. We had Korean Maple Chicken for dinner as well as apple crisp for dessert.
Learning ::
Still working on those numbers! I have definitely gotten my money’s worth from the sandpaper numbers, what a great investment. I had them count the dots, put the right number underneath, and then trace the number with their finger.
FIAR :: This week we read Daniel’s Duck. As our weather is slowly changing to fall, it was a good week for us to talk about the different seasons. The kids created pictures of how a tree might look during each of the four seasons. I forgot to snap a photo!
We had a slight variation on the country dinner and we made ham and cheese sandwiches with biscuits. Everyone liked this meal, and it was an easy dinner to prepare. I think I will add this to our meal plan rotation.
Paths of Exploration :: This was our final week of our Columbus unit. To celebrate we made a Jamaican dinner from Eat Your Way Around the World. We made Jamaican Jerk Chicken, Red Beans and Rice, and Ting.
I didn’t plan a dessert, but Bob went out and brought home a banana cream pie to stick with our theme.
Linking up this week with Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
Lisa says
We love lapbooking here! I am definitely going to try to find the link to this lapbook! Yours came out great! Thanks for sharing the link.
God bless,
Lisa
Jessy Gaffen says
Oh, love the Columbus Lapbook. Cati (9) is finished up Columbus this week in her History Pockets: Explorers of North America.
Great recipes! We have “Foods Around the World”, but we’re holding off until next year when Jake (12) does Around the World in 180 Days (which we’re still waiting to get from the publisher).
reasonsforchocolate says
Oh my gosh, Jen! What a fabulous homeschool week you and the kids had!!! Way to go.
I’ve been meaning to ask, did Leah get her hair cut? It looks shorter. Hope that bone is healing
Tifflynene says
You’ve had a lot of great things going on, Jen! I love your theme dinner to go with your Paths of Exploration and your celebration of the Korean martyrs too. What a blessing to have a local apple orchard…we would love that! I’ve looked up the closest u-pick is 2 hours away. We have no hints of Fall…yesterday was 102 degrees:( We don’t really get Fall until November. Have a blessed weekend!
Mary says
It looks like you had a great week, Jen! I’m going to go on FB and look at your menu plan, because I’m making mine right now!
Laurie says
We are enjoying “Eat Your Way Around the World” too. We finally got to make our Egg Drop Soup recipe. I love all the extra tidbits of information included as well. Great week you had!