Joining American Heritage Girls

So Tater officially joined American Heritage Girls. She received her Joining Award tonight. She was very excited to receive her award. I am so proud of my girl. Below are pictures of her award.

Week 26

   So this is the last week before Tater's 2 week break. This week we worked hard on learning our last 3 continents, spelling, and math and the ocean.
 
Can you count o-n-e, t-w-o, t-h-r-e-e.  We worked hard on counting and spelling this week. We counted one through ten. Amazingly, the hardest word eight, was the easiest word for Tater to get. We did some counting with blocks, and some fractions work as well. We counted, jumped, and learned our way through numbers.

  Speaking of fractions, she passed her math test. She has really excelled in her fractions work. When our break is over we are going to be working on time, or money. It depends on what my lesson plans entail.

   In science we learned about the shoreline. We learned about the plants, formations, and the animals that made their home in the ocean. We also discussed the shoreline and the types of sand that we could come across. We also did lots of crafts involving sand. It made some pretty cool pictures.

   We also finished working on Asia, Antarctica, and Australia this week. She passed her continent test, and we worked on learning about animals, culture, and weather of the 3 remaining continents. For Asia we made a Chinese meal, for Australia we made a koala bear, and for Antarctica we made snowmen out of marshmallows.

   Jr Bug worked on the letter 7 and the letter G. We counted, sand, watched, and colored. This has been an awesome week with school. I've been busy teaching, playing, learning and growing. Its been an awesome week. But, I am so reaqdy for a break. Jr Bug will still be doing school. We need to keep moving so he doesn't lose the momentum that we have started.

Jr Bugs picture of his sister. 

See the letter Gg in the corner, that was the letter we worked on this week. 

Spelling words in sand. 

After working with beach sand we moved to colored sand. 

Tater's picture of her brother.

Digging in the sand to find quartz and basalt. 

Making an Arctic snowman. 

Introducing the number 7

Using media to learn about the letter G. 

Cooking Chinese food. Learning about Asia. 

And eating our food. 

Making a koala bear...Studying about Australia. 

Well, its been a busy 9 weeks, so now, its break time. I will probably posty of Jr Bug's adventures in school, but it will be sporadic. Enjoy the break away, and see you in 2 weeks. 

Week 25

   The week a poet was born. This week we took a walk into writing our own poetry. Tater came up with her own poetry, using different poetry stiles. We did rhyming, acrostic, autobiographical, and sensory poetry. She managed to come up with some AMAZING poetry this week. I was very proud of her poetry styles, and her ability to create some masterpieces at such a young age. Who knows. she may be a writer when she gets older.

We also worked on learning about seasons. We have previously touched on this in the past years, but this year we focused more in depth of classifying months into proper seasons, and how the seasons change and why the seasons change.

  Jr Bug learned about the letter F and the number 6. We managed to make a fish that went with the letter F. And we learned how to sing our alphabet up to the letter F.

Week 24

  We are back..and we've been eating, learning, counting, and coloring. Fractions and continents were the name of the game this week. We've been learning how to count and write fractions. We've been eating bananas and m&ms learning parts and wholes.
   In social studies we've managed to learn 2 continents...North America and South America. We've learned the countries located with each continent and the importance of each continent.
   In science we studied biomes, habitats, and environments. These things we are going to go in more detail in the coming years, so its good introduction right now.
   Well Jr Bug learned counting by eating m&ms this week. We also counted the bouncing ball and we counted our crayons. He learned that the letter E stood for Ellie the Elephant. A real busy productive week.
Stay tuned for next week when we write our own poetry. Until then.
 

Holy Week

    This week was Holy Week. The week that we prepare for the Resurrection of our Lord. So in honor of Holy Week, we learned about the most important thing: Jesus and His ultimate sacrifice and His Resurrection.
    In learning about these things, we spent some time in Matthew, Mark, and John. The kids learned about Matthew 28 and the cross. They learned about the cross and why the cross was important. We learned about John 3:16 and we made that verse about us.
    I asked the kids how much Jesus loves us. They didn't know, so I had them open their arms and I told them that this was how Jesus died. He opened up His arms and died for our sins. We also did Resurrection Eggs, we painted Easter Eggs. We also made a cross for Jesus to die on, we buried Him in a tomb, and then we opened up our tomb and watched how Jesus was no longer in the tomb. We also had an Easter egg hunt at home, in which the kids found words that dealt with the Easter story. 

   This week was not originally planned. God placed this lesson plan on my heart. I am so glad that He did. I think I really impressed upon the kids the love of Jesus. I really love the fruits of being obedient to God. He gives me the wildest ambitions, and then brings them into fruition.  

The kiddos getting ready to dye Easter eggs. 

Tater dying her eggs. 

Tater painting her tomb. 

Jr Bug painting his tomb. 

Tater's Tomb in which to lay Jesus in. 

Jr Bugs Tomb for Jesus

Jr Bug put Jesus in the tomb. 

Looking for Easter Eggs. 

Tater is looking hard. 

Look Momma I found one. 

Both kiddos are ready to do their Easter Egg hunt.

Jr Bug and his many finds. 

Tater with her goodies. 

So that's it for this week. We worked hard, we learned hard, we worshiped hard. I truly do thank God for His mercy and His foresight over the course of this week. To God be the Glory. 

Now, next week we will pick back up with our regularly scheduled week. Week 24 for those of us who are keeping up and for those who aren't, just another week at The Vine Academy. 

AHG badge work

  So my Tater received her reward for all of the hard work she has done so far in AHG. She received the most badges earned.   
  She also received 11 service stars. Each service star is worth 5 hours of community service. That equates to 55 hours of service. That's quite a bit for a 6 year old.
  Momma is so proud of you Tater. You truly are becoming a woman of integrity.