Poppins Book Nook: Ponds, Lakes and Rivers

     Welcome back to February's edition of The Poppins Book Nook.  For this month, our theme was Ponds, Lakes, and Rivers.

We chose the book Water Dance 

by Thomas Locker.

This book is a cute poem talking about how water moves.  Water makes up 3/4 of the planet and has been the same for thousands of years.  This book explains the water cycle in a poetic form.

This past Saturday we went on a winter hike at a local State Park.  We talked about the flow of the water from the river that we walked beside.  The river flowed from the lake.  Here are some pictures of our hike.

Getting excited for our 6 mile hike!!

Swing bridge!!

Now it is time to check out the other blogs in the Poppins Book Nook!

An InLinkz Link-up

Blessings!!

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Geography Monday: El Salvador

This week our travels bring us to El Salvador!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America.

2.  In the center of El Salvador's capitol, San Salvador, is the Monumento al Divino Salvador del Mundo.  In English it means "Monument to the Savior of the World"

We also added these books and DVD to our study.  You can go  HERE  to see the other books that we use.

El Salvador

by Walter Simmons

A Bear for Miguel

by Elaine Marie Alphin


For this country we mad Leche Poleada which isVanilla Custard.

It was really yummy!

He made the "Monument to the Savior of the World" out of Legos.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Costa Rica!

Blessings!!

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Art History Month #5: Henri Matisse

Week #1

Matisse

by Ellen Sturm

For this week art lesson, I had him chose an instrument and cut it out of construction paper and then design his back ground.

Week #2

Henri Matisse

by Paul Flux


For this weeks art lesson, I had him cut his name out of construction paper and design it on a piece of paper.  Should have reminded him to make sure his letters weren't backwards!

Week #3

Henri Matisse
by Mike Venzia

For this lesson, He cut out various shapes out of construction paper and design it on another sheet of paper.

Week #4

Henri's Scissors
by Jeanette Winter

This weeks art lesson was on painting Matisse's goldfish painting.  First, I had him draw it out and then use poster paint to paint it.

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 13-15

Lesson 13 Napoleon Bonaparte

I, Crocodile

by Fred Marcellino

Lesson 14 Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark

by Trish Kline

Sacagawea

by Kristin Petrie

Sacagawea DVD

Schlessinger Media

Lesson 15  William Willberforce

I just read some of this book.

Amazing Grace

by Linda Granfield

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Geography Monday: Honduras

This week our travels bring us to Honduras!

Here are some things that we learned this week:

1.  Bananas are very important to the economy of Honduras.  They grow very well here with the hot, humid temperature.

2.  Bananas take 9-12 weeks to ripen.

We also added these books and DVD to our study.  You can go  HERE  to see the other books that we use.

Honduras

by Ellen Frazel

The Good Garden

by Katie Smith Milway

Hondorus DVD

Film Ideas INC

For our adventures in Honduras, we made oven baked sweet plantains.

He cut them evenly and then we put them on a cookie sheet and sprayed them with cooking spray.  We baked them at 450 degrees turning occasionally for 10-15 minutes.

I did put honey on them also and they tasted pretty good!

Lego banana!!

Then he thought it would be a good idea to make it into a banana split!!

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to El Salvador!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 4 Lessons 10-12

Lesson 10 The American Revolution Part 2

Final Years of the American Revolution

by John Hamilton

If you lived at the Time of the American Revolution

by Kay Moore

Lesson 11 Wolfgang Mozart

For this lesson we read from this book about Mozart:

Boys who rock the World.

Lesson 12 The French Revolution

You wouldn't want to be an aristocrat in the French Revolution!

by Jim Pipe

Scratch art Fireworks!!

Blessings!!

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Geography Monday: Belize

The week our travels bring us to Belize.

Here are some things that we learned while in Belize:

1.  They are home to world's second largest barrier reef.

2.  Half of Belize is covered by tropical rain forests.


Here is one of the books we added to our study.  You can go  HERE  to see all of the other books that we add in.

The Night the Moon Fell

by Pat Mora

Travel with Kids Belize DVD



We made bunuelos for Breakfast!

1st you put 1 cup flour, 1 t baking powder, and 1/2 t salt in a bowl and set it aside.

Next, put 1 cup of water and 1/2 c butter in a saucepan until the butter is melted. 

Mix the butter mixture in with the flour mixture.  Then add 3 eggs, mixing well.

Heat oil.  I just used a small saucepan.

I used a cookie scoop to portion it out and a slotted spoon to turn them.

Once the come out drizzle them with honey!!

Very yummy!!

His Lego creations for his barrier reef.

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures as we travel to Honduras!

Blessings!!

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