Friday, December 17, 2010

A Week Before Christmas....

It's been crazy around here since Thanksgiving! Jayden finished up all her work before Thanksgiving, so she's itching to begin again. Grace only had three workbook pages to go and we finally got around to them yesterday. Julianna keeps reminding me that we have to buy her new school books, and Evie keeps finding anything to write with and writing everywhere!

Matthew and I went on a vacation for a week The girls stayed here at the house with Grandma and seemed to have a great time! We came home to lots of presents and goodies.

We started our Jesse Tree advent study; I tried to incorporate our goody making as much as possible. I'll put down our schedule at the end....

I'll be ordering our new curriculum (Heart of Dakota) and books/workbooks in the next couple of days... They are all so excited to start back. Apparently, four weeks off is way more than they need. And we still have at least one week, if not more to go!

I'm going to stagger their starting times to make it easier on myself. Jayden will start her reading program (Drawn Into The Heart of Reading) as soon as we get the new books in, then I'll start Grace after a couple of days on her 3Rs to catch her up even with her history/Bible/poetry, then after Grace's birthday I'll start Jayden on her curriculum and then the next week add in Julianna. I still haven't decided if we will be doing 4 or 5 day weeks. We'll see how it goes :)

Jesse Tree Study:

Adam and Eve - Apple (Genesis 2:4-3:24) - fried pies

Noah - Ark or rainbow (Genesis 6:11-22, 7:17-8:12, 20-9:17) - cake balls (with sprinkles)

Abraham - Knife (Genesis 12:1-7, 15:1-6) - cutting something with a knife

Isaac - Ram (Genesis 22:1-19) - pb balls

Jacob - Ladder (Genesis 27:41-28:22) - make pretzels in the shape of ladders

Joseph - Colorful coat (Genesis 37, 39:1-50:21) - cathedral windows

Moses - Tablets of the law (Exodus 2:1-4:20) - make scrolls

David - Harp (1 Samuel 16:17-23) - play music and sing

Isaiah - Lion and lamb (Isaiah 1:10-20, 6:1-13, 8:11-9:7) - chex mix

Mary - Lily (Luke 1:26-38) - go smell the flowers at the store

Elizabeth - Small home (Luke 1:39-55) - gingerbread house

Joseph - Hammer or saw (Matthew 1:18-25) - build something

Jesus - Christmas story - birthday cake for Jesus

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