This week....

This is going to be a two week post since I forgot to post anything last week, which is becoming the norm.... Makayla is pretty much reading by herself and sounding out 3 and 4 syllable words. We have been visiting Barnes and Noble a lot lately. She loves to sit and read books in the children's section and the boys enjoy playing with the Thomas train set. Mommy enjoys not having to entertain them!
Caleb has learned letter E and letter F. He gets really excited when he sees letters on signs and cars. Last week, he saw a letter E in the bank drive thru. He shouted "Mommy! Look it's a letter E! My learned that today!" He made F's out of play-doh!



Makayla has been learning some fun bible stories! She learned about Moses sending the Israelite spies in to Canaan. We talked about the land being fertile and having great soil to grow things. We made a layered "soil snack" with raisins as the rocky bottom layer, crushed graham crackers as the top layer and cereal flakes as the humus layer with decaying plants and trees. They all loved making and eating this one!



Makayla also learned how God told Gideon to knock down the idols at Baal. We all had fun making idols out of legos and throwing balls to knock them down. Caleb LOVED this! Anytime Mommy says it is okay to throw something in the house, it is a good day!



Caleb learned about Moses and the 10 plagues in Egypt. He was playing with some water, and we turned it red like blood. Of course, that only made him want to play some more!



I am also including some fun pictures of Luke. He loves David's old pony that Aunt Helen gave us. He has started riding it and it is the funniest thing!

Letter C, Letter D, Reading and lots more!

We have been so busy the past couple of weeks that I haven't had time to post anything. Caleb has learned letter C and D. He also learned how to spell his name. He realized that it matches what is written on the wall in his room. Makayla is reading, and we are all really excited about that! She is flying through the Bob books and tackling just about anything she can get her hands on. We learned lots of fun bible stories over the past couple of weeks. Check out the pictures below...


These are pictures of the kids making a rainbow out of torn up construction paper. We learned how God sent a rainbow after the flood as a promise that He would never flood the earth again. The kids did a great job on these!



This was a really fun experiment! We all made boats out of aluminum foil and then used coins to see how much weight they could hold. We discovered that our boats couldn't hold much! I asked Makayla how Noah's boat could hold all of those heavy animals and not sink when our boats couldn't even hold a roll of coins without sinking. She got really excited and said "God's power!!" We made waves in the water and blew on the boats to see how the water and wind could make the boats move. Luke even got into the action!



The kids pretending to be Abraham in his tent!



This was probably one of my favorite crafts so far! Makayla learned about Joseph being sold by his brothers into slavery and taken to Egypt. We learned a little about Egypt and got a great book from Barnes and Noble that tells us all sorts of cool stuff about the culture. When we were learning about what the Egyptians wore, we made an Egyptian collar out of cardstock. It was lots of fun!

Hope you enjoy the photos!