year of the rabbit

Yes I know I am seriously slacking with the homeschool blog.  We had a great day celebrating Chinese lunar New Year. This was the year of the rabbit. Kayiah wore red because it is a lucky color for the good luck in the new year.  The girls ate chinese noodles with chop sticks. The long noodles represent a long life. 

 Milenah chose not to stay in red  and wanted to eat with her dino fork instead of chop sticks so we pretended it was a dragon fork, thats ok b/c I had to cut her noodles anyways so we just skipped the whole chinese superstitions with her : )

 A few years ago we took the kids to the Asian festival downtown, Kayiah loved the dragon dancers and loved how the dragon batted his big eyelashes so she had lots of fun making her own good luck dragon. The girls took turns playing with it while we watched Ni-hao Kilan's new years special on tv. 

We learned how to say  happy new year ( sounds like " sing yen quai lu") we watched several you tube videos of little chinese children singing and dancing to new years songs they were really cute.  We also prayed for China b/c they are not a free country like us they also only let you have 1 baby instead of letting the parents choose and they are not allowed to believe in Jesus like we can. We had lots of fun learning about China this day!

Some Christmas Crafts

my girls love to do crafts and I try to incorporate them as much as possible into our homeschooling... Ok Ok I really hate breaking out the paints and glue it just gets so messy and my little one hates her hands to be messy. But for the Christmas season I wanted to bring the stories to life and what better way then to let the kids get hands on? Can you guess what these will be?

 The angels telling the Shepheards that baby Jesus had been born! Our verse is Luke 2:11  so it all went hand in hand. ( I drew the Shepheards, I know I can't not get involved I try but I can't)

 For now I need to use stuff I have and my craft supply is not that large we have some finger paints some elmers glue and construction paper, some pipe cleaners and markers so for this we used noodles bowtie and twisties and the heads are beans. Nothing spectacular but the girls had a lot of fun.

Being Thankful!

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. His love lasts forever. Psalm 107:1

While we did a little study on Pilgrim Indian stuff we really focused our thanksgiving study on what it means to be thankful to God for all he has done for us, for all that he has blessed us with and just that He Is! Kayiah made a thankful tree and wrote some of the things that she was thankful for. It's funny how a long word like Thanksgiving sounds easy enough for an adult to understand but to a 5 year old it was complete jibberish.  We sure have lots to be thankful for this year!

Falloween

This month has been a lot of fun with homeschool after all shouldn't kindergarten be fun? I was really impressed with Kayiah's idea to paint a candycorn pumpkin ( which we got for free at the farm fieldtrip)

 my pumpkin and milenah's pumpkin, while doing things like this I try really hard to not interfere with Milenah's crativity and let her do what she wants... It's not what I would have wanted but thats not the point. Note to self even though we are in a drought and had no chance of rain the washable paint dries and flakes right off of these pumpkins.

 math was shapes this month and counting by 5's and 10's to 100. We used candy corn as our counters.

 triangles and art colors and candy corn, Kayiahs made really cute window art and M's got hung up inside

 1/3s yeah those are taught with candycorn/ art and creativity all in 1.