All about Eclipses

Our next installment of our Answers in Genesis Our Universe is eclipses.

I added this book into addition to our core text.

Eclipse

by Franklyn Branley

We used a volleyball as earth and a tennis ball as our moon.

The sun was a flashlight.  I was holding it without the moon in the way.

This time the moon was in the way and you can see the eclipse!

Blessings!!

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Presidents Study: Chester Arthur books and crafts

Chester Arthur

by Mike Venzia

Chester Arthur
by Paul Joseph

Chester Arthur was once known as the be fisherman America.  He painted a picture of him fishing!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 2 Lessons 73-75

Lesson 73  Dante Alighieri, Poet of the Middle Ages

We watched some of this You tube video.

Lesson 74  The Aztecs (The Mexica)

We read this book as an add on to the lesson.

You Wouldn't want to be an Aztec Sacrifice!

by Fiona MacDonald

Lesson 75  The Hundred Years’ War 

I had him watch this video.

Blessings!!

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USA study: Tennessee

State facts:

         1.  Chattanooga has the world's largest freshwater aquarium.

         2.  Coca Cola was 1st bottled in 1899 in Chattanooga.

         3.  The Lay potato chip company was started in Nashville in 1932.  It later merged with the Frito company and became Frito-Lay in 1961.

Tennessee

by Paul Joseph

Swamp Angel

by Anne Isaacs

When the Whippoorwill Calls

by Candice Ransom

Knoxville, Tennessee

by Nikki Giovanni

Count on us

by Michael Shoulders


Goin' Someplace Special
by Patricia McKissack

V is for Volunteer
by Michael Shoulders

On Granddaddy's Farm
by Thomas Allen

Luck of Potatoes
by Helen Kettlman

Our footprint guitar!

We also made a guitar with a kleenex box and rubberbands.

Blessings!!

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Poppins Book Nook: Poetry: The Cow in Apple Time and a giveaway!

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook!!  

This month was a poetry theme.  We chose the book:

The Cow in Apple Time

by Robert Frost

I love Robert Frost!!  I got 3 from the library and this is the one Conner chose.

We practiced our rhyming words and fed our cow apples.  

Can you tell Mocha loves apples!!

Thinking the camera is an apple!

Enjoying the snow!

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Presidents Study: James Garfield books and crafts

James Garfield

by Megan Gunderson

James Garfield

by Mike Venzia

James Garfield was the 1st left-handed President.

Practicing writing our name with both hands.

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 2 Lessons 70-72

Lesson 70  The Great Khans and the Mongol Invasion of China

Making a yurt like Gengis Khan and the Mongolian Empire.

Umbrella, clothespins, and sheets!!

Lesson 71  MARCO POLO TRAVELS EAST

Following the trail of Marco Polo by Geronimo Stilton

Lesson 72  Sir William Wallace and Robert Bruce, Bravehearts of Scotland 

The Door in the Wall

by Marguerite de Angell

Blessings!!

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