Changed By Love

Changed By Love

Following the Lamb wherever he goes… Revelation 14:4

A Pocketful of Penguins

I brought out the Pocketful of Penguins unit study that I got from Teacher Book Bag at Currclick, and printed it out since Fiona has been so excited about her penguin named Felix.

It has activities for younger kids (preschool) and older (K-3), so I used some of them for Emma and some for the twins.

Here Emma is learning about ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.). She put the penguins in order as I read to her the word that was written on the card.

Then we matched the numeral with the position word so she could more easily tell which position each penguin was in.

Then I gave her the numeral cards and had her say the name of the number and then put it in the correct position. I found out that she doesn’t recognize the numeral 4, so we will work on that more. There were a few other numbers that she doesn’t recognize yet. We were able to compare 6 and 9, and I think she’s making progress in understanding the difference.

Her attention span is very good. She never got tired of doing this activity. She liked putting the number cards where they belonged.

There were grids with penguins placed at certain points that the student had to identify. Garrett did one of the grids.

Fiona did the other grid. The twins both understood the concept pretty quickly. I told them about the x-axis and y-axis and explained that we put the x first when we label the point. I never thought I would be teaching them this concept at such a young age, but it seemed to be very easy for them to understand.

There are a lot more activities with this unit. I didn’t get pictures of some of the things I did with Emma, and I just now got the first pages printed, since my printer ran out of ink in the middle of printing. I’ll probably write another post about our next penguin activities.

We did some ABC activities with Emma earlier, but I didn’t get any pictures at the time. We’ll do them again and take pictures this time. Felix teaches Emma ABC’s with penguin cards!

And the sun goes down on the coconut tree. (Or whatever kind of tree that is.)

40 Days for Life Fall Campaign 2011

Another 40 Days for Life campaign has come to an end
— and we can look back now at lives FOREVER CHANGED.

During these 40 days, there have been …

… 508 lives saved — that we know of — because of
God’s response to your prayer!

From past campaigns, we expect the number to KEEP
GROWING, as our local campaign leaders get their final
reports in.

– Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have read the daily blog posts and prayed for the ones who are praying in front of abortion clinics and for the clients and for the clinic workers. I’m praying for an end to abortion. A confirmed number of 508 babies were saved this time. These babies and their families are precious in the sight of God. He will bless them for their decision to choose life.

God is doing amazing things in these days. Be encouraged! He is at work all over.

Even in your life.

Monet’s Bridge Over Water Lilies Craft

I found this idea on Valerie’s blog at The Crafty Classroom. It looked so neat that I had to try it. Fiona loves to paint and do all kinds of crafty things, so I asked her to do it with me.

Valerie shows you how to do it here:

http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/CraftArtistMonet.html

Here’s how Fiona and I did it.

We looked at this picture of Monet’s Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies.



I put the masking tape on our papers. That was not really very easy. I had to cut the masking tape in half because it was too wide. Then I had to make the shape of the bridge.

Then we chose our paint colors and put them on paper plates so we could blend them. We used tempera paint instead of finger paint because that’s what we have. We used card stock like Valerie suggests.

 

Fiona said this was the best school time she ever had because it was just me and her. She loved it!

We just dabbed the paint on with our fingers. Fiona seemed a little hesitant to stick her fingers in the paint. Is this really allowed?

Mine looked like this while the tape was still on. We had to wait for the paint to dry before we took the tape off.

This is how Fiona’s looked with the tape still on.

When it dried, I took the tape off and voila! Beautiful bridge over water lilies!

I took the tape off of Fiona’s, too. It was hard to do. It took some of the paper off, too, even though we used card stock. But it still looked nice, I thought.

We hung them on the wall. I might get some cheap frames to put them in. I really like them. I’ve loved Monet’s water lilies for years, and I’m happy to finally do art work similar (in a very loose way) to his.

I’m going to get Linnea in Monet’s Garden at the library and have the younger children watch the video and read the book.

The book is written like a scrapbook that shows a trip that Linnea and her elderly friend, Mr. Bloom, take to visit Monet’s house and garden.  They see the water lilies and the Japanese bridge that Monet painted many times in his lifetime. Some art history is included in the story, too. This book is a favorite of many who love Monet’s paintings. I enjoyed it when I read it to my older kids years ago.

You can find them at Amazon.

Linnea in Monet’s Garden

Linnea in Monet’s Garden DVD