1B2 & 1B3

Hey all,

Just thought I'd stop in real quick & fill you in.

I'm so glad that we started back early because these last two weeks have taken a bit longer. Last week was a tough one. By Thursday I should have known to take it a little more easy - tensions were high. By Friday, my son was hiding...thankfully we threw in the towel & decided to have lighter day instead. We'll be finishing up 1B2 tomorrow & starting into 1B3. As usual we're lagging in the project department. Superman has been busy, but we have a few plans so that we can get some of these fun things done this month. ;o)

Today we did the poem study called "A Little Brother Follows Me." Earlier in the day Superkid had a conversation with his little sister saying telling her that she shouldn't act like him since he was having a rough time dealing with a situation. Then, here we study this poem that talks about how this little brother looks up to his bigger brother & wants to act just like him. It was a little ironic. ;o) We all decided that we needed to follow Jesus & walk in like Him.

Interestingly enough we have been studying Moses & for the past few weeks at Church our Pastor has been doing a series from the book of Exodus! It has been awesome how timely these have been. God continually amazes me how He meets us every step of the way.

We also have been studying the weather. I have really learned so much this year. I'm sure if I'm learning they must be too, right? :o) I vaguely remembered some the names of the types of clouds, but we all are very fluent in cloud reading now. LOL! It's so fun to name the types of clouds & to know that if we see a cumulonimbus cloud we're in for a storm. Speaking of storm, it's always nice when you're studying weather that you get all different types. It has been sunny, windy & it's rained & snowed all this week. They're working on a two week weather chart right now, tracking this crazy weather.

That's about it. I re-ordered their notebooks and put all of their work into page protectors. After seeing some of the hard work they put into some of these reports I decided that it is probably a good idea to begin to protect them a little better. They will now be able to show their grandkids their work. Oh and I ordered them by subject now. I just think it makes more sense.

We also did a few science activities the other night, just for fun. First (and less scary!) we put a golf ball into a jar with rice in it. When you shake it up, the ball pops right up. It's pretty cool! Then, (and you just know that Superman was involved in this one...) we soaked a dollar bill in alcohol and lit it on fire. Yep. It doesn't burn up. And they did it A LOT. It was pretty fascinating. I guess we could tie that into our lesson about the burning bush, eh. Oh well, it was fun anyway!

ok, now that's it.
See ya next time!