Soap Carving

In case you were curious how the soap carving project turned out...



My very creative son looked at a bar of soap and decided it looked almost like a fridge anyway, so...why not!

























(It's the old fashioned kind, you know.)

You gotta love it!

Canada Wrap-Up

ECC - MFW
Week 7 & 8 (Canada)
What have you learned?
I have just learned all about some gross recipes from Canada. Like "blood pudding" - ewe! And there was a recipe which had the jaw of a moose! Wowzie. I learned about the Northern Lights. I didn't even know about the Northern Lights. Some of the police ride horses instead of cars. Guess what? Some recipes even have snow in them! And instead of states they are provinces. Some of them were Yukon, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. I knew that there were a lot of Indians which are called Inuits.

In science I learned that pond skaters are very little, littler than a fly. I had never heard of a skunk cabbage before. And I never knew what the black dots were in the frogs eggs and the salamanders, then I found out it was the baby frogs and salamanders that would soon hatch and swim around. I never knew what herons name were. Herons are a type of bird with long legs and wade in the water and wait until a fish or a frog comes by or even a water snake. It uses it's long beak to spear or grab the animal.

What are some favorite things you did?
My favorite thing was learning about the Kingfisher. I had seen the Kingfisher in a video before and liked how they dive into the water. At first they would jump into the water downward and right when they are about to go into the water, they put in their wings so they would look like a missile. When lots of them were going in, it looked like missiles were going into the water.

Here it is Friday.

And...it's SNOWING!!!!!!

As homeschoolers, we ARE allowed to take a day to play in the snow. Because, we can! Honestly we don't get outside to play as often as I'd like, so this is a recess day, if you may. :-)

Well, obviously it won't take ALL day long, but we've worked hard this week & all we really have left to do is our Geography. We'll get that done and do our wrap-up next week.

Then I just want to focus on Christmas for awhile. I'm planning on doing some crafts & hopefully visiting a convalescent home at some point. I have to say though, I have been a little pre-occupied as the nesting instinct has seemed to take over around here for me. It won't be long until we have another little person to talk about. :-)

English Narration

The Crow & the Pitcher
1st Language Lesson # 62
December 5, 2007

There was a black crow. He was flying over a field when he started to get thirsty. So, he flew to a little town and then he saw a pitcher. So, he flew down to drink out of the pitcher. When he got there, he tried to get to the water, but he could not drink it. It was too far down in the pitcher. So, the crow thought if he moved the pitcher all the water that fell into puddles he could drink out of. But, that did not work. The pitcher was too big. So, he tried to reach down into the pitcher, but that did not work either. So, he got really tired and didn't think he would be able to try again. So, he sat thinking under the shade of the tree. Then he saw pebbles by a walkway of a door. He thought if he collected pebbles and dropped them in one by one that the water would raise up so he could drink it. One by one he put the pebbles into the pitcher and soon the water was high enough where the crow could drink it. Then the crow drank until he was full and flew away.

Moral: To be patient and to not give up.