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Thanksgiving Turkey Fractions Math

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November 15, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Tori is rather obsessed with turkeys, as it is.

She cannot wait until hunting season. We have a friend who is willing to take her to hunt turkeys. I don’t know where she got this idea, but it has persisted for more than a couple years now.

So, when I saw these, I just knew. She loves it!

3 part matching fractions cards. with turkeys!
Turkey Fractions

Tori is reading the number words to make sure they match up with her fraction numbers and pie picture.

Here’s the set-up.

I did help by sorting the cards into three piles. She already completed the match for 1/3. She’s reading the cards for 2 1/2. The orange cards are challenge cards. She did those first, of course. Tori completed all the card matches and then copied the number words and fraction numbers onto her page.

3 Part Fraction Cards

Tori is transferring the words and fraction numbers onto her paper.

The pie pictures already match – to help. She matched the cards all up with very little trouble. I was impressed!

Turkey Fractions Notebooking

I found the Turkey fractions game here.

Here’s a freebie – fun turkey fraction craft . I have it all printed out. I hope to do it later this week.

We’re working on lots of fun Thanksgiving books and activities this month.

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Self Control Copywork

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November 12, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We’re loving We Choose Virtues!

Katie picked Self-Control as our virtue this week.

I’ll tell you what: she knows she needs to work on this one! The kids all colored the page and we put them up on our Virtue wall.

Self Control

I found some copy work to go with the Virtues.

Tori loves copy work! This one is tracing and then copying.

Self Control Copywork

I won All About Reading Level 2. We started that last week. It’s perfect because the girls are already well on their way to reading and just need some review.

The girls LOVE it!

After completing lesson 1, Katie told me in her matter of fact way: “Mo-om, thank you for winning us this reading program!”

Now, who hears that every day?

All About Reading Level 2

We also worked on Life of Fred math this week.

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Monster Nouns

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November 6, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

The girls loved these Chomping Nouns fun pages!

It fit in well for Halloween week.

Chomping Nouns Game
Chomping Nouns Printables
Their different styles of learning fascinate me.

Notice how Tori’s nouns are all lined up, neat in columns.

Neat Nouns

Kate’s words are in the monster’s mouth all haphazard and messy.

Respect the differences!

Nouns Everywhere

The girls are still writing in their journals every day.

Most of our writing and reading come from the Tapestry of Grace Year 2 curriculum. We’re working our way through First Language Lessons.

Stay tuned for posts on All About Reading Level 2! I just won the program and we’re really excited to get started!

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Math Monday: Skip Counting

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November 5, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

When I was at a writing conference, Dad did school and for math, the girls just worked in their Singapore math books.

That’s why there wasn’t a math Monday post last week. And I was still recovering from jet lag.
That’s just fine though. Way to keep it simple!
We did some easy review and fun work.
The girls completed the 5s skip counting mazes.
Stamp Skip CountingSkip Counting Maze
The girls love Do-A-Dot Rainbow Art Set for mazes!
Skip Counting by 5s MazeSkip Counting by 5s
They cut out, sorted, and pasted 2D and 3D geometric shapes.
3D Shapes SortingSorting 3D Shapes
The girls have a great number notebook and we do a couple pages each week. Here’s the board with the information they copy. It really helps them to see the number in different forms: tallies, equations, base ten, and domino patterns. They learn to spell the words too!
Ways to Write Number 17Number Book

We’re continuing with our Life of Fred Apples and Singapore math 1B. In mathbooking, we plan to focus more on time and money this month for mastery.

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Fall Tot School 18 months

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October 26, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Is there a doctor in the house?!

Little Doctor

Alex LOVES cutting and pasting. He knows almost all his shapes.

Cut and Paste Shapes
All proud of himself!

He just recently decided to try tracing the lines in his tot packs. He’s really good when he isn’t silly about it!

Tracing
Orange is Alex’s FAVORITE color. He colored his ships page for Columbus Day.

Coloring Orange
He played a dice game with Daddy and graphed the pictures.

Graphing Fall
Dancing to Wii Kids Dance Gummy Bear song. He loves it!

Dancing
He begged for me to take a picture of his spelling “frog.” We love the See and Spell!

Frog
Playing “pancakes” with big sister Liz.

Sibling Play
He begs to roast my coffee beans. We roast 1/2 cup at a time in this popcorn popper. We do a couple batches and let it cool off. The coffee ideally must sit for 24 hours for best flavor. We get our coffee beans from Sweet Maria’s.

Coffee Boy
Cutting and pasting with counting pictures. I gave up on trying to get him to do patterns and just let him count and glue to his heart’s content!

Cut and Paste Counting

“tracing” the letters for a scarecrow page

Tracing Scarecrow
more tracing with markers

Tracing Lines

coloring the leaves. he really likes this!

Coloring Leaves
proud boy!

Proud Boy With Colored Leaves
he loves cutting so much, he got started before it was ready.

Cutting Leaves
Another fun scarecrow pack here and a fall leaves pack here!

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Autumn Leaves

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October 25, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

Not many of the leaves have changed completely in the valley yet.

I picked a few for the kids to do leaf rubbings.

Fall Leaves Craft

I found these fun leaf books and they rubbed different leaves in different colors.

The girls did really well and didn’t need any help!

Leaf Rubbings
Tori studied the leaves with a magnifying glass. She loved seeing all the veins and colors up close.
Leaves under the Microscope
Liz raked a pitiful pile of leaves and jumped on it!
Leaf Raking
Leaf Pile
It was more Alex’s size of a leaf pile.
Raking Leaves
Jumping in a Leaf Pile

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Chalk Pastel Scrub Jays

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October 22, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We’re studying Leonardo da Vinci in history these next few weeks. Here is one of our texts for Tapestry of Grace Year 2. It’s a biography and it has activities for us to do too! We’re enjoying reading it together. It is very helpful for Katie, a kinesthetic learner to understand Leonardo with a book like this! Tori is a visual learner and loves doing activities too. It helps her remember what we’ve read when she sees her projects completed. Katie has no trouble with narration, but this helps Tori, who stumbles over narration exercises.

We chose to draw a scrub jay since they are prolific in our yard and quite pretty and blue. We looked him up on The Cornell Lab of Ornithology website. Perfect picture to copy!

Western Scrub Jay


This was a new and messy project! We kept paper towels handy.

Blending Pastels


The girls were tickled to learn a new word: scumble. It means to rub the chalk and smear it to make it look softer.

scumbling pastels


Very pleased with herself! Tori is our perfectionist and this gave her a boost of confidence!

Blue Scrub Jay


I like the outline in black. Obviously, I need to acquire more pastels if we’re sharing.

Pastel Jay


My attempt at drawing. I will tell you: I need to do this more often with my girls. It was a bonding experience. It was so relaxing and meditative to sit there and draw. I loved doing this with the girls.

Pastel Scrub Jay

Next time, I will encourage Liz and Alex to join us. I really need to get more pastels then!

We love the pastel art lessons here.

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Medieval Feast

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October 17, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 3 Comments

We didn’t do so well on unit celebrations for our Tapestry of Grace studies last year.

It was all new to us and honestly, I just didn’t plan them.

We planned a medieval feast as our first history unit celebration this year.

It coincided with Elizabeth’s 12th birthday. She said it was the best birthday ever. Points for mama!

We had a great unit about the middle ages, learning about knights and castles. Tori got to try archery. We read lots of books.

Thank you, Costco, for the awesome knight and princess costumes!

Alex tried on his costume and immediately wanted it off. Yeah, I can’t imagine eating in shining armor either.

 
Little Knight

Mercy, no dressing these two alike anymore! I can barely tell them apart!

Princess at Our Medieval Feast

Little Princess

I had this costume from a party years ago and now Liz can wear it. My, she’s getting tall!

Birthday Princess
Medieval Feast Menu


Here’s a copy of our Medieval Feast Menu I made. You can download a copy too!

Here’s the best picture I could get of the table.

We set it with our fancy stuff! We don’t have any pewter plates and I wasn’t using bread trenchers!

The flowers were for Liz’s birthday.

Medieval Feast

We kinda dug into the “subtlety” after lunch. It was her birthday cake!

We checked this book out from the library. It had lovely examples of medieval menus and recipes galore! We especially loved the copies of actual recipes in Old English and art depicting cooks during the period.

We had cream of vegetable soup.

Tori and Katie loved this and asked for thirds and fourths!

Vegetable Cream Soup

Cedar plank grilled salmon filets.

Glazed Salmon

We put brown sugar on top and they were delicious!

Roasted herb chicken.

Roast Chicken

We used Jamie Oliver’s recipe. It is delectable!

Creamed spinach.

Creamed Spinach

This is Aaron’s mom’s recipe. Liz and I love it, the others, not so much. But it has BACON!

Recipe: chop bacon and fry it up with some chopped onion. After that’s cooked, add chopped garlic and fresh spinach and turn off the heat. Fold it in until wilted. Splash lemon juice and sprinkle a tiny bit of nutmeg. Drizzle a couple T cream or half and half and stir. Serve immediately.

Big Glass of Grape Juice

Alex wanted to be like Mama and Daddy and have his grape juice in a big glass!

We’re excited to start our Renaissance history studies! Already working on what we can do for our unit study in 9 weeks. This one will be hard to beat!

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Pumpkin Math

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October 15, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We did this fun pumpkin math with candies.

The pages are part of this pack: Simple Schooling Autumn Fun Pack (which I can no longer find anywhere).

pumpkin math

M&M math:

We figured area and perimeter!

They just traced the picture with candies for perimeter and filled in the pumpkin for area.

Pumpkin Math

First, the girls placed M&Ms around the outside of the pumpkin to measure perimeter.

Candy Perimeter
Measuring Perimeter with Candy

Tori is saying 42. They both got 42 for perimeter.

And it’s the meaning of everything. sigh

42
Counting Candy

Then they covered the pumpkin picture for area.

Measuring Area with Candy
Pumpkin Area

Extend the activity:

  • Estimate and Measure the height and width of real pumpkins with a tape measure.
  • Estimate and Measure the circumference of real pumpkins with a tape measure.
  • Calculate the diameter and radius – using the circumference measurement.
    • d=C÷3.14         (3.14 is otherwise known as π or pi)
    • r=d÷2
  • Estimate and weigh pumpkins before and after cleaning out the seeds to make jack o’ lanterns.
  • Estimate and count the seeds.
  • Dissect the seeds.
  • Measure the shell thickness.
  • Count the vertical lines on the sides of the pumpkin skin.  These numbers can be used to calculate:
    • Fractions – “1/2 of the pumpkin is equivalent to 8/16”
    • Percentages – “What percentage of the pumpkin is equivalent to 4/12?”
    • Degrees – “If a full circle is 360°, how many degrees is 1/8 of the pumpkin?”
  • Measure the volume of the pumpkin using water displacement.
  • Compare pumpkin measurements if you have several. Make graphs.
  • Test gravity by dropping pumpkins from different heights.
  • Make your favorite pumpkin recipes!

Fall Chalk Pastels has a great pumpkin art project!

We also completed our reviews in Singapore math 1B and worked on Life of Fred math lessons this week.

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Canning and Preserving with Kids

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October 9, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our tomatoes are all done after the frost this weekend!

We did some applesauce, salsa, and tomato sauce canning with the kids.

Tori loves to help in the kitchen. She helped Dad chop tomatoes for salsa.

chopping tomatoes

He makes the best salsa! He grills the veggies first! After processing, we let the bowl sit in the fridge overnight before canning.

We have 3 big boxes of these lovely apples from our neighbor’s tree. We made applesauce!

We love our Kitchenaid mixer and its attachments that make life so much easier!

The kids taste-tested this applesauce and said it was fine without any added sugar. Super!

This is just from one box. We have lots more work ahead of us! We’re going to make apple pie filling and apple butter too.

I also have some orders for apple cake from some church friends. It’s so healthy with 3 sticks of butter! Hey, I’m from Georgia, y’all. We love butter!

Recipes:

  • Canning Applesauce
  • Canning Tomato Sauce

Resources:

  • Not Your Mama’s Canning Book: Modern Canned Goods and What to Make with Them by Rebecca Lindamood
  • Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
  • Water Bath Canner
  • Enamelware Water Bath Canning Pot Set
  • Artisan Tilt-Head Stand Mixer
  • Grinder Attachment for KitchenAid Stand Mixers
  • Fruit and Vegetable Attachment Strainer for KitchenAid Stand Mixers
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