The Watts Family Homeschool Weaving Gods Word Into Our Lives

We are working on a Human Body Lapbook for Lapbooking Friday’s we are all done with the Middle Ages so we chose this one to study ~The link below will take you to the webpage to where we got this free lapbook.    http://www.homeschoolshare.com/my_body.php

We are at Exodus 19 Where Moses is at Sinai and it Trembles Violently ~Leading us into our study of Earthqakes this week. We watched a movie and read several books on The Great Quake of San Francisco in 1906. Anna wrote a great paper about it.

The San Francisco Quake

By Anna Watts Grade 2

The Great Quake was very loud. Animals ran all around like a sign the earthquake was coming. The gas and electric pipe were close together. When the earthquake came it broke them and made a huge fire. The fire almost burnt the whole city.

The fire was very strong it was hard to put out. The people traveled 7 miles to the park. They had no water until they found it on a hill, but not much of it. It was not enough of it to put out the whole fire but they did. So that was how it was.

Well Lapbooking Friday’s have been great. We have opened our home on Friday’s to get together with other homeschoolers  to teach them how to lapbook and of course have some fun. This Friday we worked on a Coat of Arms not quite a lapbook since we just finished our first lapbook and have to pick out what lapbook we will do next. The kids enjoyed this craft and the finished Coat of Arms looked great I will include the link for the project. http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps/heraldry_shield.html

We recently made a very simple old testament timeline. I thought this would be a great companion to our current homeschool in the book of Exodus. I think what we enjoyed the most about this was that the people who created this time line kept it simple so it was very enjoyable. We have seen some timelines that have looked great but have looked so complex we have not even wanted to attempt trying one. I will share the Link for the one we used. It is on sale right now for 5$ but well worth the download. We can’t wait to do the one they have for the New Testament.

http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=888&it=1

Anna’s paint lesson today was learning about who Emily Carr was. We also looked at some of her beautiful paintings of Canadian landscapes. Then Anna tried on her own to paint with some Emily Carr flair. Information on where we got the art lesson from is in the link below.

http://www.kinderart.com/arthistory/emilycarr.shtml