Growing in God's Grace: January 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Presidents Study: Andrew Johnson books and crafts

Andrew Johnson

by Mike Venzia

Andrew Johnson

Anne Welsbacher

Andrew Johnson was known to sew better than any other President. We are going to be working on sewing soon!

Blessings!!

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Mystery of History Volume 2 Lessons 61-63

Lesson 61 Richard the Lionhearted, Saladin, and the Third Crusade

The Making of a Knight

by Patrick O'Brien

I found the template for the coat of arms HERE.

Lesson 62 The Classic Tale of Robin Hood

For this lesson we watched the following on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxgvSxYLA6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3tbP8euqUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bi3rDPYjM

Disney's Robin Hood

Lesson 63 The Shoguns and Samurai of Japan

Sword of the Samurai

by Eric Kimmel

For this lesson we did the Samurai Helmet fount here.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

USA study: Sorth Carolina

State facts:

1. The first tea plantation in the U.S. was near Charleston

2. The state's first cash crop was rice.

3. Was the 1st state to secede from the Union in the Civil War.

4. The Charleston Museum was the 1st museum in the U.S.

South Carolina

by Paul Joseph

P is for Palmetto

by Carol Crane

Bridges to Change

by Kathleen Krull

South Carolina
by Janelle Cherrington

Carolina Shout
by Alan Schroeder

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree
by Gloria Houston

The Colony of South Carolina
by Susan Whitehurst

South Carolina is known for having the 1st tea plantation.

Drinking hot tea!

Blessings!!

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Poppins Book Nook: To the Laboratory: Recycling and a giveaway!

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook!!

This month was a science theme. This is always fun with a house full of boys! We chose the book:

Recycle!

by Gail Gibbons

After reading this, we did a recycling experiment.

To do this experiment you will need:

about 8-12 weeks We forgot about our second one and went 5 months! (opps!)
plastic bag opt
2 plastic tubs
enough soil to fill both boxes
water
2 sets of test material: newspaper, orange peel, foil, and plastic

Optional: line your plastic tubs with a plastic bag then fill partially with dirt. moisten the soil. Then add the test material to each tub and cover with dirt.

Place boxes in sunny location and keep dirt moist for the next 28 days. Check the 1st one after 28 days. Use a magnifying glass to check it out.

Here are our supplies.

Line the tubs with plastic bags. You can omit this step if you want.

Putting 3 inches of dirt in the bottom of each one.

Moisten soil.

Add you material.

Cover with another 1-2 inches of dirt.

Moisten down. Then sit outside in a sunny spot. Don't forget to sent the kids out to moisten the dirt a couple of times a day (unless it rains).

This is a month later. Our orange was starting to disintegrate.

Like I said earlier, we forgot ours!! This is 5 months later.

Plastic still the same.

Foil, still the same.

Paper was half way gone! And, the orange was completely back to dirt. I used organic oranges, so I would love to know that would change the process any on the peels. We will have to try again and test that out!!

I also had him watch this video on Recycling by Reading Rainbow.

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