IMAX: Journey to Space

Week 13: This week we began our study of Ancient Greece.  We worked on our math and reading and continued with our study of space.  We decided to take a trip to the Science Center to pull together all that we have been learning.

We had a great time seeing our first IMAX movie, Journey to Space. The boys have been enjoying our science curriculum on Astronomy.  I thought the movie would be a great way to draw together some of the things we have been learning.  The IMAX facility was a bit overwhelming and disorienting at first, but once we adjusted we had a blast.  We learned a lot about space exploration.

Week 12: Ancient Americas

This week we have been studying the Ancient Americas.  We studied the Inuits, Aztecs, and Ancient Native Americans.  The boys have also continued to work diligently on their math, science, grammar and reading.

Owen tried his hand at weaving with some natural materials :)

Noah wanted to practice his handwriting after finishing all the lowercase letters

We talked about Inuit snow houses and Owen got creative with his own version of a snow house.

 Noah was so very proud to finish his reading curriculum Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.

 Math time!

A Little Autumn counting practice with candy corn.

Week 11

This week we studied Ancient China, along with our reading, writing, and arithmatic.

Noah finished his Math-U-See Primer book!

The boys tried their hand at writing Chinese characters

A bit of art appreciation

The boys are studying the art of Renoir

Autumn Acres Field Trip

We had a great afternoon with friends at Autumn Acres for the home school field trip. It was a chilly day, but the kids had a blast running around, playing on hay bales, trying out the giant slide, and riding the wagon. 

 

Unit Celebration!!!

Week 9

We finished up our study of ancient Egypt this week and had our Unit Celebration for the first Unit of Tapestry of Grace.  We were lucky enough to get to present all the great things we have been learning to Grandma Susan and Grandma Gram.  The kids showed them what our day looks like and some of their school work.

Week 7: Moon Phases

The Boys (Dad included) had a great time checking out the super moon and lunar eclipse.  Noah did not quite make it to the eclipse. We worked on an Oreo moon phases project the next day.

Week 6

 The boys continue to work hard on their school work. We have decided to pick up the pace on grammer for Owen and it is going much better.  Noah's reading is going well.  It is fun to see it clicking for him!  We finished up our Ancient Egypt unit this week with a study of the plagues.

Ancient Egypt (Week 5)

 We are enjoying our study on ancient Egypt.  The boys have loved learning about the culture, especially the pyramids.  We finished up this week's study with building our own pyramids.

St. Louis Field Trip (Week 4)

 We had a fun trip to the St. Louis Zoo.

We also enjoyed a day at the Science Center!

Homeschool Meal (Week 3)

The boys treated us to dinner in the style of Abraham and Sarah.  Lentil stew with flat bread and goat cheese.  They also made models of the layers of the earth for us for dessert.  It was all delicious!

Week 2

A bit of morning Bible reading

 Week 2 included a study of the life of Abram and life in the fertile cresent, the planet venus, math, reading, and a bit of art history.  The boys are getting their daily school routine figured out and the girls are getting used to independent play during school.  The homeschool tubs I made for the girls are working well and keeping them busy.  We enjoyed a field trip this week as well!

Grammar is not his favorite, but he is working on it diligently

Proving he has Ide blood, Noah uses his tongue to improve his coloring/writing skils ;)

Venus Experiment

We used butter to represent rock in our volcano experiment.  We discussed how rock starts as a solid, but is melted in the super heat of Venus.  It then erupts from one of the many volcanoes and spreads over the surface. Once it is on the surface it cools enough to turn back into solid rock. A silly, messy experiment, but I think we all got the point. 

Our solid rock

The rock liquefying under the surface of Venus

The volcano erupts

Liquid rock spreading on the surface

Checking out the cooled, hardened rock.

Field Trip: Blank Park Zoo

Our first trip to the Blank Park Zoo.  We took a little home school field trip to see the animals that would have been on Noah's ark. 

This little animal explorer worked really hard to write down the names of the animals he saw

A little tortoise we saw along the way.

This was Zoey's first time at a zoo (not counting sleeping at the St. Louis zoo as a baby)

Owen was able to complete his list of 40 animals as we toured the zoo. We made 40 our goal so we would remember the 40 days and nights of rain on the ark.

When the animals are a little bigger and more frightening than you are ready for it is nice to have a big sister around to make it all better.

My butterfly-loving boy!

We all thought the zoo was fun!

A little musical break in the Africa section of the zoo.

The Jensen kiddos

Sweet sisters

I think there will be many zoo trips in the future for these kids!