My Father's World Adventures, Week 2

Glow in the dark WWJD bracelets (ignore SnowCone & her runaway tongue)

JESUS sun catchers

SnowCone had a tea party in the midst of our project

We have thoroughly enjoyed this week.  We made "WWJD" or What Would Jesus Do glow in the dark bracelets.  They are to remind us to live like Jesus, and I love being reminded when it's dark & scary ;o)  We also made JESUS sun catchers for the girls bedroom windows.  It was an easy, but messy project.  We used crayon shavings and placed them between two pieces of wax paper.  We also placed the letters JESUS inside the wax paper.  We heated it with an iron to make our sun catchers.  The girls had a lot of fun with it.  Well I will have to admit that SnowCone disappeared in the midst of the chaos to have a tea party with her "friends".  I left our school area to find about 20 stuffed animals sitting at my kitchen table.  Why not?  She even set the table for each attendee.  The people at All About Reading would be proud to know that Ziggy the Zebra was also in attendance.  Mango said, "How awesome is that for her...she's having a really cool tea party!".  She continued to tell me that this project was one of the best...ever.  I'll take that as a good sign.

Every girl deserves a midmorning tea party

We also started reading about Squanto, who was an Indian boy from the Patuxet tribe.  Squanto lived in Jamestown.  He became friends with the Pilgrims.  We will continue reading it through the next couple of weeks.  Reading about the pioneers settling in Jamestown is always fascinating to me.  I can get swept away and feel like I am right there with them.  Oh wait, that goes for any book that I read ;o).  We also talked a lot about Pocahontas, the Indian Princess that saved Capt. John Smith's life while she was a young girl.  She was a friend to people of Jamestown.

I haven't known for sure if the girls were absorbing much from Speekee Spanish.  I was quite impressed when we visited our local Mexican restaurant, and my oldest said, "Hola, Que tal?" to our waiter (Hi, how are you?).  Of course, he responds, "muy bien, y tu?" and she said, "muy bien".  That was pretty neat seeing it come to life.  I purchased Speekee last fall before we ever decided to homeschool.  I am not sure if we will continue with it after our year runs out or if we will try Rosetta Stone Spanish, which is what is recommended by MFW.

I have learned a lot about SnowCone (3 1/2 years old) these last couple of weeks.  She's all about a project.  She wants to sort, cut, glue, build, draw with dry erase.  She couldn't care any less about coloring a piece of paper.  It is really fun to watch them experience new things.  She has learned so much this week just from listening in on big sis's fun as well as her own.