My Father's World - A is for Apple

If I stay in Jesus, I will have much fruit!  These were our words to remember for this unit and they were very timely, for all of us.  With all of the upheaval in our lives at the moment we have been missing quite a bit of "fruit"!  We spent lots of time talking about the fruit of the spirit and how we can show different fruit in different circumstances.  There wasn't a great amount of paperwork to show for this unit but we did lots of talking and learning.

We practiced being patient, kind and having self-control by working and playing together to build a new fort.

We practiced kindness by giving little brother a ride in the wagon.

We saw love when big brother let us cuddle up to him in his bed during the storm.

We did a little bit of paper work.

We had fun learning our colours and numbers.

Our book of the week was 10 Apples Up On Top, so we tried to see how many apples we could balance on our heads.  We didn't get much further than 1!!

We made a graph of different coloured apples.

Played with our apple playdough,

And did some apple prints.

My Father's World - L is for Leaf

I wanted to blog Samuel's pre-primary year so I would have a record to look back on, but so far I haven't been very consistent!!  Anyway, I have a few catch-up posts to do.  I can't find any of our moon week photos so that will come later.  For now we will catch up on L is for Leaf!!

We started our week, as usual with a lesson about our words to remember.  For this unit our words were, I can live and grow in Jesus.  We picked a branch off of our tree and put it in some water, then we removed one leaf that decided it wanted to do things its own way and not be part of the branch. We discussed what we thought would happen and then watch it over the week as it dried up and died.  We compared this to our lives with and without Jesus.

Samuel completed his reading, writing and maths pages for the unit.  

Nathanael, as usual, joined in with his own activities.  Give this boy a crayon or paint and he will be happy for hours.  So different to his big brother!

We made play dough using herbs from our garden to scent it and then collected leaves and twigs from outside to help decorate our own gardens.

We made leaf prints in a variety of ways.  we painted the leaves and used them to print on the paper.  we also put different leaves directly on the paper, covered them with kitchen towel and then gently banged them with the hammer hammered the life out of them and produced some pretty cool prints.  Finally, we did the good old leaves under the paper and colour over with crayon trick!

We also did a bit of name practice this week.  I have been a bit slack with teaching the boys their names this time around.  Samuel pretty much knows his name but Nathanael doesn't have a clue.  Poor child, who gives their baby a 9 letter name to try and learn to spell!!

To finish of our L is for leaf week we went to Fred Jacoby up in Mundaring to enjoy what was left of the Autumn leaves.  There was lots of running and jumping and throwing and slipping down muddy hills!

My Father's world - Ss is for Sun

So we are up to the third week of our new curriculum and we are still loving it!  This week was Ss is for Sun and our words to remember were "Jesus is the light of the world."

Here is a look at some of the things we got up to!

Our letter 's' book

Tracing the letter S

Tracing sandpaper letters for pre-writing.

Introduction to the letter of the week.  Samuel already knows all of his letters and sounds so we are focusing on identifying words that begin and end with the sounds.

Completing our bookwork!

Nathanael had his own activities to do while Samuel was doing "school" with Mummy.

Our Bible words to remember this week were, "Jesus is the light of the world!"  Part of the program is to make badges each week to help remember the words to remember.  We made ours into necklaces instead.

The topic for the week was the sun so we of course we made a sun!  We threaded yellow and orange straw pieces onto pipe cleaners to make the rays and then painted the plates.  Samuel decided to do his in an aba pattern without me even asking - that is maths done for day!  I love the tongue sticking out as Nathanael concentrates on his threading.  :)

Sun paintings.  There's that tongue again!!

We experimented by putting some objects on cardboard and leaving them out in the sun for an hour to see what would happen.  There wasn't much sun this week but it still works.  The boys were quite amazed at what happened.

I made some "space" playdough for the boys and added our space toob.  It was played with many times during the week.

Later in the week, the big kids joined in and together they all created a space station on the moon, complete with superhero and pirate peg people.  They are all having a nap in this photo!

Liam got out our space game and tried to teach the little ones how to play.  In the end they just made up their own version which just involved using the rocket playing pieces and making them blast off!

We had a great week and are looking forward to continuing with our space theme next week with Mm is for Moon.

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