Madeline Day 4

Before we started rowing Madeline, I wanted to get Reagan a Madeline doll. Boy did this turn out to be much bigger than I anticipated, but isn't that always the case. After much searching, I found one on ebay and won the bid.

The doll arrived today in great condition and she was sooooo excited when she opened it.

We watched the Madeline movie today and she held on to her doll. We also started discussing our wrap up of this unit and what we would cook. I think this will be fun for all of us.

Her is Reagan and the Madeline doll. We took the picture in front of our map with her pointing to France.

Madeline Day 3

We started out our day by finishing up our study of France. We decided to learn a couple of words in French today. We kept it simple and learned Bonjour and Oui. Reagan really liked learning another language and decided we should use these two during the rest of our Madeline study.

After this we went into talking about germs. We talked about how germs are transmitted from one person to another by the way of direct contact or by touching objects others have touched. We then did an experiment about handwashing to show her how long you have to wash your hands to get all the germs off, not just run them under water and go.

First we coated her hands with vegetable oil and then sprinkles lots of course black pepper on her hands and had her rub it in. No only could she see the "germs", but she could feel them as she rubbed the pepper in.

We then went to the bathroom and she washed, and washed, and washed until the pepper was all gone. It was really neat for her to see the pepper left on the faucet knob after she had turned it on and the pepper left sticking to the sides of the sink. This was really a great visual. We talked about how long it takes to properly wash our hands.

Yeah! All clean.

BFS # 124 - The Easy Button

Memory Verse - Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.2 Chronicles 7:14-16

Introduction - I thought that I would hit the “easy button” this week and not only make the assignment light, but also give us a chance to get to know each other better through prayer.

Assignment - This week I would like you to post any prayer requests you have. What is going on in your life that you need prayer warriors for? Feel free to post an unspoken request if you feel it is too personal. Then if you would just take the time to visit as many other BFS buddies as possible, pray for them and then leave them a little note letting them know that you have prayed or will be praying.

My prayer requests this week are:

For the Lords protection over our health

For my daughters to continue to grow in Christ and make the right decisions

For my son to come the know the Lord and accept Him

For a better attitude for myself when it comes to work and family issues.

Goodbye My Friend

After weeks of searching and keeping hope that our sweet dog scooby might still be alive somewhere, we have come to accept that we might not ever see him again. It was almost a week ago that he got out of our back yard, he had done this before but had always come straight around to the front door.



I have had signs up. No response. I went to the pound. No scooby.



So, here I go.



Scooby lived for 14 years. A long life for a Maltese. He had so many cute qualities like the fact that he skipped when he walked and hiding from us UNDER the covers when he didn't want to go outside. He is survived by his best bud and cohort in crime Daphne (our other Maltese). In the end he was deaf, blind and could be quite the grumpy old man, but we still loved to love on him. We have had him so long, I almost don't remember what was like when he wasn't with us. Sadness, such terrible sadness that he is gone.



I would love to see him come to the front door tomorrow and be able to delete this post, but I really don't think that will happen.

BFS #123 - ABC's of Praise

Introduction: This is a steal, literally, because I found it on Facebook and decided to use it this week. This is an expression of Praises to God- using the ABC’s. I thought this would be a good way to be able to Praise God and use every letter of the alphabet!

Assignment: Try to think of one thing you can say to the glory of God- one thing to thank Him for, a positive thing you can say about Him, or one of His Names-using each letter of the alphabet. You are allowed to make up words- if you can justify them by making it clear what you mean- and you may also use any foreign language (but please explain what it means) - and you can also use a thesaurus or dictionary if you get stumped. I’m putting my list below so you’ll have to copy and paste this then remove my answers. It’s a bit of a challenge but I think you’ll enjoy it. Have fun with it!


A - Always available
B - Blessings abound
C - Creator
D - Darkness without Him
E - Excited to meet Him
F - Free ( salvation)
G - Great provider
H - Helps those in need
I - Invincible
J- Jesus freak - wish I could be more like them
K - King
L - Loving
M - Most High
N - Nails in His hands for us.
O - the ONE
P - Praise
Q - Quietly (listen quietly for His voice)
R - Repentance
S - Superior
T - Trust
U - Understanding
V - Vast (His love for us)
W - Wonderful
X - eXpert
Y - Yours (for the asking)
Z - Zestfully - pursue him zestfully

France and Madeline

Today is our second day of rowing Madeline. Today we focused on Paris and France.

We worked on a couple of mini books and fold outs that we found on home school share. The first one was a tour of France and came with pictures of different structures that the artist had included in Madeline. Reagan had a bunch of fun trying to find the different pictures. I had also checked out a book from the library on France and we would also look up the pictures in there and get a whole different view. There were several night time pictures with the structure all lit up.
We then colored the flag of France and she had to write the continent that France is located in and then pick France out in a picture of that continent.
Her favorite activity was the Madeline doll cut-outs. She thought they were so cute and we had fun putting them in two rows of six. We then used them to do some adding and subtracting. We will be using these all week for math and any other activity we can use them for.

Madeline

This week we will be rowing Madeline from FIAR. Reagan really likes this book and I knew she would be excited. We have read the book before, but have not rowed it. I had the table all set up to surprise her when she awoke on Monday morning. As expected she was all smiles.

This was the table when she awoke in the morning. She immediately started questioning me about the toothbrush and soap, and the number 12. The mystery of it all makes her so excited to get started and figure it all out.