This week we learned all about the Tabernacle and what it all meant and where the items were place and why. So we built and Ark of the Covenant as well as the 10 commandments and the cup to be placed inside it. It turned out pretty cool. The kids did a great job on it.

King Tut

This week we learned about King Tut and how his name was changed, what the mask was all about, parents etc. It was very interesting and making this mask really helped to bring home everything we learned about King Tut! By the way...no help from Mom on this one for Vincent!

I Vant to Suck Your Apple!

I remember doing these as a kid in school. Shrunkin Apples! We used rice for the teeth of our vampire apple and cloves for the nose and eyes. I, mom, did, however, cut the slit for the mouth. This took about 3 weeks to look like this. Bu it was pretty neat looking at 1 weeks too. It was very cool how we were able to watch the rotting process and talk about our soul how it can rot away with sin if we do not turn away from sin and ask for forgivness.

A Builder Boy

Lego. Hmm, What can I say! My son is so creative! This crane he made all on his own, no samples, no kits just pure imagination!

Fall of 2009 is Here

Well, the picture does not do justice to this. He drew his hand and arm, colored it, sprayed it with water then added some fall leaves we found in the neighborhood. Of course we add a small little lesson on how leaves change their color and read a couple books from the library!

Moses Basket

Today we were learning about Moses and how his mother Jochebed had to make a basket, cover it with pitch and Tar and send the baby Moses down the Nile river to be safe from death. This really made the kids understand how hard it was to keep the basket water tight as well as how hard it was for mommy Moses to do such a thing.

Summer 2009 Projects

This summer we really laid back on the school work. We did reading and math daily and got a few science lessons in here and there. We did a few craft projects that I thought I would post here too.

We read about clocks and we read Hickory Dickory Dock several times. Vincent did most of the work on this but Raquel had a few things to add.

For Raquel's birthday party in August all the kids made fireflies. They really turned out cute. They have glow sticks in the butt to make them light up.

This is sand paper art. We colored on sandpaper and then I hot ironed onto regular white paper. This was lots of fun.

This is a car manufacturing plant. Obviously a new plant. LOL. He did this all on his own. he is very talented in lego's. He would love to work at Legoland and build all the neat things. Hey the master builders make a good chunk of change!

This is a copied drawing of Vincent's from a coloring book that he also enhanced.

Eggs Have Air

I know in these picture it is hard to see, but you can see a shiny part? That shinny part is the air sack that a baby bird breaths through until he breaks the shell completely. What a beautiful design God made for these birds. Vincent and Raquel really enjoyed seeing this and it made them understand that we are created by design not just by chance.

Homeschool Fair 2009

Allow me to be a proyud mom and brag about my kids for one moment. We entered 7 things into the homeschool science and art fair. And Vincent and Raquel won six 1st place and one 2nd place along with two Best in show. So here are the pics I have to show off.

Our Bodies

This past year 2008-2009 we studies the human body. I found a very cool book that had pages to copy on card stock and the kids would color it and label each part. Each area we studied had a model cut out. So these are some of the models we put together to learn about our bodies. Raquel was involved in this learning process, but she did not really do any of the work on it, so I am only putting this post under Vincent. He did 80% of the work.