Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 76-78

Lesson 76   John Milton and John Bunyan

Dangerous journey [DVD] : a victorious journey of faith and pilgrimage

Lesson 77   William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania

The story of William Penn

by Aliki.

Lesson 78   The Atlantic Slave Trade

For this lesson we listened to Amazing Grace on a CD.  He is just starting to learn this song on the piano and I can't wait to here him when he has it mastered!!

Blessings!!

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DIY : Valentine's Day countdown

This cutie helped me make a Valentine's Day Countdown!  Was some great mother/son time!

All you need is some scrap lumber, heart template, and a couple of 2-3 inch round tree cut, dried tree branch pieces.

First, you want to cut the tree branch pieces.  I made ours about 1 inch thick.  You will need 14 of them!

Then, I spray painted half of them pink and half of them purple.  It took a couple of coats.

While I was painting, He traced our template onto a piece of 3/4 inch plywood.

I then cut it out.

I had him use the file and clean up all the edges.

Then we spray painted it red.

The frame stand I made was out of thicker board of pallet wood.  

I used a drill bit then to put holes in the painted wood circles and then placed them around the heart.

The holes were bigger than my nail heads, so I hammered them in while they were placed around the heart.

After that was done, I attached the heart to my stand.

I then painted the numbers on the hearts and the verse on the heart.  Then I sprayed each one of them with some clear coat.

Blessings!!

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Word of the Year for 2016

     This is my first year picking  word of the year.  I read about the idea and thought it was awesome!  I have never been a person to pick resolutions.  Deep down inside I always knew that I couldn't keep them.

     There are so many things in my life that I need to work on.  From my spiritually walk, my physical walk, my walk as a mother, my walk as a wife, and my walk as my own person.

SPIRITUAL WALK
     1st up, my spiritual walk.  I am in this phase of my life where I find it hard to get into the word of God on a daily.  I know I am not in this walk alone.  As moms, so much of our time is on others.  From the farm animals, to homeschooling, to cleaning, ugh!  I feel that if I work on this area, so many other areas in my life will start clicking.  

PHYSICAL WALK
     This is the part of me I have grown to dislike.  I need to lose 80 pounds (at least).  I hide behind my kids in pictures, or hide from the camera.  Can't find clothes to fit that look decent.

MOTHERLY WALK
     Sometimes I yell.  Sometimes I feel like I don't do enough for my kids.  (Thanks Pinterest and Facebook!)  

WIFE WALK
     I fall asleep way to early.  Partly because I get up way to early to take care of things, but I can't keep my eyes open much past 9pm.  Leaves us very little time to relax together.

WALK AS MY OWN PERSON
     Who am I?  I don't think I know who I remotely am.  Which all brings me back to my spiritual walk.  

Lord heal me

and

me.

     So, my word of the year is 

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 #3: Jackson Pollock

Welcome back to month 3 of our Art History Series.  This month we dove into Jackson Pollock.  Neither one of us are very fond of his artwork, but other people seem to like it.


Week 1 we read:

Jackson Pollock

by Joanne Mattern

Our first project was to take paint bottles and squirt them onto a large sheet of paper.

Make sure they fill the paper up!!  After that, add some nails or other items to it as Jackson Pollock was known for that!

Ours even has some soap shavings on it!!

Week #2 we read:

Jackson Pollock

by Leonie Bennett

You need a shoe box, rubber bands, and paint!

Finished project:

Week #3 we read

Action Jackson

by Jan Greenberg

Our project was to use a shoe box and several marbles coated in various colors of paints.

Week #4 we read

(forgot picture!)

Jackson Pollock

by Mike Venzia

I had him use a string and and put several different colors of paint on it and put it all over his paper.

Stay tuned for next month when we study Claude Monet!

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 73-75

Lesson 73  The Scottish Covenanters

Wearing our Red Oak Leaf!

Lesson 74   K’ang-hsi the Manchu and the Ch’ing Dynasty

You wouldn't want to be in the Forbidden City! 

 by Jacqueline Morley ; 

Lesson 75   Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton and gravity 

by Yoming S. Lin.

We also did the activity in the book on his 1st law of motion.

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 70-72

Lesson 70  George Fox and the Quakers

Rachel and Obadiah

by Brinton Turkle

Lesson 71  Blaise Pascal

Charcoal shape drawing!

Lesson 72  Louis XIV: The Sun King

The King's Day:  Louis XIV of France

by Aliki

Project out of book:

Blessings!!

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Mystery of History Volume 3 Lessons 67-69

Lesson 67 John Amos Comenius


We looked at the Orbis Pictus on-line HERE



Lesson 68  The English Civil Wars

Lesson 69  Robert Boyle: The First Modern Chemist

For this lesson, we did an experiment on acid and alkali.

First, we put water in a jar and dropped a couple of raisins in it.  They of course sunk!

Then, we put vinegar in a jar and added some raisins.

we then put baking soda in it and watched.

The raisins started to rise off the bottom of the jar when there were enough air bubbles surrounding them.  They float to the top, the bubbles release the carbon dioxide, and then they sink to the bottom of the jar again.

Blessings!!

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