It has been raining some days this week. Baby girl wakes up scared when the rain comes down hard on our metal roof. It is very loud. We comfort her. I (Wendy) am also scared about the unknown sometimes. It makes sense to feel scared when you don't really understand what is happening...like who will stay in our house here when we go to the US in 7 weeks or if we should just box everything up and put it in storage while we are gone...Baby girl will be 11 months this week and is working on her walking skills. We hold her hands and she walks around. She got her first shoes last week and enjoys putting one foot in front of another as we hold her hands. We try to go out and do some walking in the park at the end of the day after her nap and before dinner. Robin and I also continue to walk forward, taking one step at a time...getting ready for a government review at the school, working every day on relationships and being people who can really call ourselves followers of Christ...Making every minute count here with the every day life activities of cooking, cleaning, communicating, documentation...
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| Learning to Walk!! |
The boys finished their American Colonists unit this week and are starting to learning about the Revolutionary War. Big boy age 7 says that he really liked making a straw tick--the boys stuffed pillow cases with corn husks to see what it was like to sleep on beds in the colonial days. This week he enjoyed making a replica of Jamestown colony. We read a lot about Jamestown during our Explorer unit when we read Captain John Smith. Big Boy age 9 says that he really liked making a tin lantern (great boy activity where they got to punch holes in a tin can to "draw" a design) and designing a sign for the job he wanted to do in the colonies. He chose to be Cutler, a person like a blacksmith who worked on making knives and swords. The projects they did in this unit were found in a great book called Great Colonial American Projects. It was definitely written with boys in mind. We learned a lot about what life was like in the Colonies by reading some books available digitally from Heritage History. Early America library on CD which offered us a lot of choices and we read Stories from the Pilgrims and Massasoit. The boys also finished reading Orville and Wilbur Wright out loud. They LOVED this book and have been trying to make some of their own inventions. Enjoy the pictures below!!
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| American colonist unit, big boy age 7 sports a home made colonist wig!! |
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| Replica of Jamestown made by big boy age 7 |
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| Replica of Jamestown made by big boy age 9 |
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| Tin lantern, straw tick, marbles and "job" poster made by big boy age 9 |
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| Silloutte, used by the colonists to send a "photo" home to family in Europe. |
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| Business sign, marbles and tin lantern made by big boy age 7 |
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| Silloute done of big boy age 9 by big boy age 7 |
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