Word of the Year for 2016 : Transform January update

Well, today marks the end of the first month on my word of the year journey!!  Transformation.

You can go HERE to see the post!

So, I thought I would share with you my progress!!

SPIRITUAL WALK

Let's just say, this is still a work in progress.  I have definitely been praying a lot more.  I still need to get in the Word more.  I have a monthly devotion that will hopefully focus me more in that area.  It is Tabletalk put out by Ligonier Ministries.

PHYSICAL WALK

Well, in my last post I said I needed to lose at least 80 pounds.  I set my 1st goal at 75 pounds.  My monthly goal is 10 pounds a month.  This month I lost 11 pounds!!!!!!  I am super excited about this!  Praying and relying on God for His help in reaching this goal.  

MOTHERLY WALK

Let's just say, getting down on their level and whispering how they are doing wrong works better than yelling!!  I feel that my yelling has been cut more than in half.  I think this month I will keep a count on how many times I lose it, to fully see the progress.  I feel that I only yelled a couple of times, but it was probably more.

WIFE WALK

Still fall asleep way too early!  But, this month so did he!  It must of been the month that we needed extra sleep.

WALK AS MY OWN PERSON

Who am I?  Praying I can answer this question better by the end of the year.  For right now, I am a sinner saved by grace.

TRANSFORM.

Verse of the Year:

Do not be conformed to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2  ESV

Blessings!!

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Art History Month #4: Claude Monet

Welcome back to this month's adventure into our Art History!  This month we did Claude Monet!

Week 1 we read

Claude Monet

by Catherine Nichols

For this project, he used his fingers.  He taped off the bridge 1st and then went about filling in all the open spaces.

Week 2 we read

Claude Monet

by Adam Klein

This project was found here.

Week #3 we read

Claude Monet The Painter who Stopped the Trains

by P.I. Maltbie

For this weeks project, I rolled up some tissue paper in a sorta flower like shape.  He then dipped them in paint and stamped them on the paper.  After drying, I put blue paint along the one side of the paper and he used a ruler to drag it across the paper.

Sorta looks like water lilies!?!

Week #4 we read

Claude Monet

by Mike Venzia

For this project I had him use chalk pastels.  These are becoming a new favorite in our home!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 1-3

Lesson 1     Johann Sebastian Bach and George Handel

Johann Sebastian Bach

&

George Handel

by Mike Venzia

Lesson 2    The Thirteen Colonies of America

The Thirteen Colonies

by Brendan January

Lesson 3 The Great Awakening

Jonathon Edwards

by Simonette Carr

Blessings!!

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Geography Monday and Poppins Book Nook: Canada

Welcome to this month's edition of Poppins Book Nook!  This month is countries of the world.  If you were here last week I also introduced how I am doing our world geography study and lots of others books that you can implement.  You can check it out HERE .

This week our adventures brought us to Canada.  We studied a providence a day, 4 days a week.

Books to introduce Canada

Canada

by Julie Murray

M is for Maple

by Mike Ulmer

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

by Suzzanne Jorisch

The Summer of the Marco Polo

by Kasia Charko

New Brunswick

F is for Fiddlehead
by Marilyn Lohnes

Quebec

A is for Princess

by Stephanie Jorisch

The Ghost on the Hearth

by Susan Milord

Quebec

by Harry Beckett

Ontario

A is for Algonquin
by Lovenia Gorman

Nova Scotia

B is for Bluenose

by Susan Tooke

Viola Desmond Won't be Budged

by Jody Nyasha Warner

Newfoundland and Labrador

P is for Puffin

by Janet Skirving

British Columbia

S is for Spirit Bear

by Gregory Roberts

Mary of Mile 18

by Ann Blades

Lass 

by Roland Gebauer

Alberta

C is for Chinook

by Dawn Welykochy

Manitoba

G is for Golden Boy

by Larry Verstrete

Sarah and the People of Sand River

by W.D. Valgardson

Saskatchewan

L is for Land of Living Skies

by Linda Aksomitis

As Long as the River Flows

by Larry Royre

Nunavut

Nunavut

by Norma Jean Lutz

The Northwest Territory

Frozenland

by Jan Reynolds

The Northwest Territories

by Gordon Laws

(This one we just looked at the pictures.)

Yukon

The True Story of Trapper Jack's Left Big Toe
by Ian Wallace

Yukon
by Susan Levert

To wrap up our study on Canada, we made these cute Mounties cookies!  We used a sugar dough recipe.  We used our gingerbread man cookie cutter and then baked them and let them dry.

Then we painted them!

Stay tuned for next week when we travel to Mexico!!

On to the link up!

Click below to see how other members of Poppins Book Nook were inspired!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses - Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly - Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

 Clip art by MelonHeadz.

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 82-84

Lesson 82

Amish Home

by Raymond Bial

Eating homemade noodles that we made a couple of weeks ago!!

Lesson 83

Peter the Great

by Diane Stanley

Lesson 84

We read thru the story's on Isaac Watts in the book Hymns for a Kid's Heart volume 1.  Then we sand the song Our God, Our Help in Ages Past.

Here is out favorite group singing Joy to the World!

Blessings!!

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How I am doing my World Geography study

After doing our own US Geography study, I set out to do our world geography study.  The goal is to do every country.  For the most part we will do 2 countries a week, some we may stay in a little longer.

I thought I would make a list of all the books that I will be using in addition to some from the library.

Hungry Planet

&

Material World

by Peter Menzel

Celebrations!

&

Children Just Like Me

by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

A Life Like Mine

by Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

Geography of the World

by DK Publishing

Passport to the World

by Craig Froman

Angry Birds Playground Atlas

by Elizabeth Carney

80 Tales Around the World

by Saviour Pirotta

Children From Australia to Zimbabwe

by Maya Ajmera & Anna Rhesa Versola

Encyclopedia of World Geography

by Usborne

Children's Amazing Places

by Robert Hamilton

World of Animals

& 

World Religions

by Usborne

You Can Change the World

Volumes 1 & 2

by Daphne Spraggett & Jill Johnstone

A Trip Around the World

Another Trip Around the World

&

A New Trip Around the World

by Carson -Dellosa Publishing

Art Projects from Around the World

Grades 1-3  & 4-6

by Scholastic

Eat Your Way Around the World

by Jamie Aramini

Missionary Stories with the Millers

by Mildred Martin

     I also made a tub for each continent.  In them, I put pictures of various things in that continent,  Some figures that I got out of Toobs, flashcards, and misc other things that we have found.  Here is some of the pictures of my North American tub.  The downloads are from various sites on-line.

We will also be making a salt dough map for each continent, marking our countries as we go along.

Stay tuned for next month as we travel to Canada!

Blessings!!

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