Getting Schooled
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 11: 18-20
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Potato Stamps
The girls had so much fun painting with potato stamps. We've been working on shapes and I cut a potato into a square, rectangle, and circle (well, kind of a circle). I let them go to town with some finger paint. Their paintings turned out really cute! Check out Grace's goggles around her neck. Safety first!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Oh Good Grief, I Don't Know!!!
I've lived in this country my whole life and these are just SOME of the questions I had to look up because I didn't know the answers. I can barely survive Kendall's lighting round of questions.
1. How did the Liberty Bell get a crack?
2. Why did they call them colonies and not states?
3. Where did Washington get his animal/human teeth replacements? (No, they were not made of wood).
4. Are we going to start using two dollar bills again?
5. Why is it called America and United States?
6. How did they make Mt. Rushmore?
That is just a sampling. Then of course, the questions that don't really have an answer because we don't understand them ourselves.
1. Why are all our presidents men?
2. Why did people have slaves?
3. Why were there so many wars?
Sigh......
1. How did the Liberty Bell get a crack?
2. Why did they call them colonies and not states?
3. Where did Washington get his animal/human teeth replacements? (No, they were not made of wood).
4. Are we going to start using two dollar bills again?
5. Why is it called America and United States?
6. How did they make Mt. Rushmore?
That is just a sampling. Then of course, the questions that don't really have an answer because we don't understand them ourselves.
1. Why are all our presidents men?
2. Why did people have slaves?
3. Why were there so many wars?
Sigh......
Get Used to It
We will be following some parts of My Father's World this year which includes "visiting" different countries. I made Kendall a passport that she can have stamped every time we enter a new country. Check out her passport photo.
When she saw it she said, "That's not a very good picture of me." Of course I replied, "It's perfect. All ID pictures are terrible. Get used to it." See, we're learning already.
When she saw it she said, "That's not a very good picture of me." Of course I replied, "It's perfect. All ID pictures are terrible. Get used to it." See, we're learning already.
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