Story of the world-week 4

We started this week reading Story of the World chapter 2.  We completed a narration, the map and coloring page.  There are so many books that supplement SOTW about ancient Egypt.  The ones we read were:

Then, we made the model of The Nile River.  I will post updated pictures in a couple weeks when (if) the grass grows.

Here is our Nile one week later....

And now, we get to the part where the boys shine!  FIGHTING!  They each had a turn being the white crown king and defeating the other.

Of course, the fighting went on LONG after the history lesson was over!  

What's in the Bible-week 4

This week we watched Volume 1 episode 2 again, with a focus on Primeval History (Genesis 1-11).  (Don't miss the Bentley Brothers singing about Genesis!)  I had fun with this page as I scoured the internet to find interactive foldables to put on this page.  When I first thought up this book, I didn't know I was going to blog, so I didn't save all the websites where I "borrowed" ideas.  I will try and find them all and link them, but my apologies if I can't find something anymore.  Just know that 99% of my ideas came from others more creative than myself. This week we just did the first page-primeval history.

Note: I counted back 66 pages from the back of the book (one two page spread for each book of the Bible) because I wanted to leave the front pages for all the extras.  I know I'll have blank pages, but that's OK.

• Days of creation accordian foldable-You will get lost in delight with the creativity on this website!  I reduced this by 50%
• Adam and Eve printable-I printed these in color at 30% and laminated them.  I used mini-velcro so the clothes could come off and on.  I'm kind of obsessed with how cute these little felt printables are!!  Check our the other ones on the website too.
• Noah flood wheel-Lots of great resources on this sight too.  I printed this at 50% and put it onto cardstock.
• Tower of babel inpiration
• I also reduced p. 10-15 in the What's in the Bible coloring book about 30%  and made a mini-coloring book that tell the stories Genesis 1-11.

What's in the Bible-week 3

This week we watched Volume 1, episode 2.  We focused on the idea of who wrote the Bible.  I'll be honest, I did most of the work on this page.  The boys helped me glue and did their copywork.
I used the same coloring page and reduced it 70% and cut open each tiny book and wrote the author of the book (if known).  I cut out the word "inspired" in fun letters and put it on a small piece of accordion folded paper so it would pop up.  I did the same with "God Breathed"  Our copywork was II Timothy 3:16.

History-Week 3

I remember now why I love Story of the World so much!  This week we read Chapter 1 of Story of the World.  We wrote and illustrated narrations, colored the fertile crescent on our maps.  We also read The Boy of the Painted Cave, which the boys have really enjoyed.




We also sewed "animal skin" bags like the nomads.

Then, we made "cave paintings" with the cousins.  They also went outside and gathered food like nomads.                                                                                                                                              

What's In the Bible-Week 2

We watched Volume 1-Episode 1 again.  We will usually watch the same episode twice because I like them to get very familiar with the songs.  The songs in the What's in the Bible series are amazing! I've even added a couple of them to our memory work.  This week our focus was on the different sections of the Bible.  I reduced the books of the Bible coloring pages (75%) and put flaps out of cardstock representing the different sections of the Bible.

Week 1 and 2-History

Week 1-We read the Introduction chapter about Archaeology in Story of the World and several books about history/archaeology from the library.  We wrote a narration about this and illustrated it.  The boys have a ways to go before they are artists.

I'm not blog savvy enough to rotate the picture. It is rotated correctly when I upload it, but not in the blog.  Oh well....

Next the cousins came over for what I like to call torture, but they like to call history project.  

Week 2- We took a break from Story of the World to spend a week talking about the beginning of history.  We read Creation-Tower of Bable in the children's Bible.  We put these events on the timeline and made a 7 days of creation book.

Time to reinstate the blog

When I was homeschooling the big kids, this blog really helped keep my focus and helped me celebrate our learning, so I'm going to start it over with the littles.  It may take me a while to change the pictures on the blog!

Week 1-What's in the Bible

I am absolutely CRAZY about the What's in the Bible series created by Phil Vischer, but I couldn't find many homeschooling resources using them.

So, I decided to pair my love of interactive notebooks (I used standard composition notebooks) with the videos and make my own.  It is a work in progress, but I'm going to try and post pictures of what I'm doing each week in the hopes that someone else may find it helpful.  Almost none of the creative ideas are my own-just hours of scouring the internet for cute ideas.  My goal is to link back to the original site of any ideas I borrowed, but I didn't know I was going to post these when I started so I didn't save all the websites I used.  So, I'll do my best!

I did purchase the What's in the Bible coloring book, but I think you can get all the coloring pages for free on their website.

The first week we colored the What's in the Bible coloring page.  On my book, I reduced it and put it on the first page.  On the boys book, I made this the cover.  

1. We watched Volume 1, episode 1

2. Colored the cover page.

3. Copy work in the little Bible about what the Bible is. (see pictures)  Here is a link to how I made the small book.

I did all the cutting and folding for my boys because they are 1st grade (and not great with fine motor skills yet) but an older child could do all this part himself.  I also included one of our Bible doctrine verses (What is the theme of the Bible)

I ended up changing the first page a little for the boys' books because I wanted that coloring page to be on the cover.  Here is a picture of my cover, and Luke's cover (Levi's isn't finished yet).  I put packing tape on top to protect it and make it shiny.

 I also made the Bible book bigger for their books so that they could have a little more room to write in them.  Here is a sample of the pages.