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.

Peacocks

OK, so this really was not a school project. We saw peacocks at the park the other day and well, we had to go to the library and get a couple of books on peacocks and read about them. No formal study, but just a bit of knowledge. I guess that is the life of a homeschooler, always trying to learn something new from just walking through life! Vincent's is on the left with the big black eyes.

Easter: Jesus' Donkey

Here was a cute craft we did for my Moms group for Easter. We told the story of Jesus riding in on a donkey that had never been ridden. And then we made this cute little donkey. The kids loved it.

12 Tribes of Israel

Here was a very cute project that we did to help us remember the 12 tribes of Israel. Each tribe is broken down by their mom.

Canopic Jars

As we are putting our Egyptian lapbook together I am revisiting some of the things we have learned over this year and thought we should do a few projects to remind us of what these things are. So here are the canopic jars the kids made. Raquel's is the darker picture. they did a great job. They are small. About the size of a quarter around and about 2 inches tall. I did not have enough clay to make an actual sized one. LOL!

What we see around us

Our art project today was to draw a picture of what is around you. I chose for Raquel to draw the backyard since this could be a bit easier for her. I let Vincent draw one too, but I told him he had to draw a picture of our Office/Schoolroom/Craft room. Here are the two pictures he drew. By the way...No help from me at all! For those of you who have been to our home...This is the wall with the window that looks out to the front yard. Pretty detailed?!?!?!

Well we learned about Samson and his hair today. So I thought it would be cute if he could make a Samson out of clay holding up a building. He did, but it turned out to look more like a car. Anyhow, it is what he wants it to be. Samson trying to hold a crumbling building after his hair was cut.

Egyptian Jewelry

These are the cutest things we made. The kids loved them. We took a picture of a typical neclace and colored it with bright colors. That night we made a typical Jewish/Egyptian dinner for our family while we wore our necklaces. Was a fun craft.

Paper Lanterns

Today we had fun learning how to manipulate paper. We made these really cute paper lanterns. Raquel's is purple, Vincent's is Red and mine is the brown one.

OK, I have to say this was one of my favorite projects. Paper flowers. The colored these flowers and leaves however they wanted to and then cut them out. i had to help Raquel a bit with the cutting on this one. Then they had to crease them to make them stand up off the page as well as arrange them in a pleasing arrangement. Great project and as you can see they turned out really cute!

Snowman Mints

What a fun project. Raquel, Vincent, Dad and Mom all sat down and made snowmen mints. As you can see we went a bit farther then just snowmen. And Anthony had to be funny and made a snowman who peed his name in the snow. Much too funny and fun!