Training Hearts and Teaching Minds. : Pilgrims Week 3

Our read-aloud for the month is Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey.

Activities are light and short, since it is Thanksgiving week.

Our BIBLE VERSE this week:

Each child worked on their individual verses for the Thanksgiving lunch at the Civic Center.

Monday

HISTORY

Today we read the chapter The Sword of Miles Standish, Preparing for the Journey

and Farewell to Holland

Daddy helped the kids out in the shop to make their own Gideon sword.

Watch out daddy, she is dangerous with that weapon.

Lauren demonstrating for Hannah how to use the sander.

Excuse the mess, I have four kids and the house is still in remodel mode.

Here are three of the kids with their swords.

They decorated one side with the name Gideon and the other side
they painted the sun, moon and stars.

Kids labeled Delfshaven on their map and added the route from Leiden to Delfhaven to England.

GOD'S NAMES

El Roi, The God Who Sees

Daddy talked about Sarai and Hagar.

Genesis 16:1-16

Think about all that God saw. Think about what Hagar learned about God.

What does God see about you?

"So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me." (Genesis 16:13)

Tuesday

HISTORY

Today we read the chapter The "Speedwell"

SCIENCE/NUTRITION

We learned another symbol of Thanksgiving the Cornucopia. Cornucopia comes from Latin. "Cornu" means horn and "Copiae" means plenty. This is a symbol for a plentiful harvest.

We made a cute cornucopia from Family Fun Magazine.

http://spoonful.com/recipes/cute-cornucopia

We put in ours: turkey, pickles, carrots, celery, cheese.

On their printout from the above recipe we wrote the nutritional value

of two of our veggies: celery and carrots.

Celery: excellent source of Vitamin C and fiber. We discussed how those vitamins help our bodies.

Carrots: provitamin A carotenes. Carrots contain a large amount of antioxidant compounds which help protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer. Carrots are good in promoting good vision, especially night vision.

Ok so theirs looks prettier.

ART

We made Grandma a beautiful sign for Thanksgiving.

We used cardstock, ribbon, beans, pumpkins seeds, cinnamon sticks, twigs, grass, corn. Everything we already had on hand.

Directions found at http://kingdomfirstmom.com/2011/11/frugal-and-fun-thanksgiving-crafts-to-do-with-your-family.html

KITCHEN

Another symbol of Thanksgiving we learned was the turkey.

http://cyncesplace.com/thanksgiving.html

Hannah wanted to make cupcakes for Thanksgiving so we found these cute Thanksgiving turkey cupcakes. Today she baked the cupcakes and Thursday she will decorate them.

Post image for Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes

http://www.jeannebenedict.com/recipes/thanksgiving-turkey-cupcakes/

Wednesday

My passion is to train my kids to be mission minded. In sharing our service projects I hope that we can encourage or give ideas to other families.

Today we served Thanksgiving lunch to the seniors. We wanted it to be a special lunch for them. We took real dishes and silverware (put the plastic away today) and decorated the table. The kids served the seniors, sang America the Beautiful, recited their Bible verses and helped clean up.

The seniors were asking for an encores and asked if we were coming back for Christmas. They told us that it was the first time in eight years anyone had done something like this for them. They felt like kings and queens. It was such a wonderful time for the senior citizens and for us!

Hanging out before lunch

Lexi serving dessert

The kids preparing to sing America the Beautiful

Cleaning up

Posing with Mrs. Mary Ann

Thursday

The kids decorated the turkey cupcakes, filled out their My Thanksgiving Prayer and I am Thankful sheet found at http://cyncesplace.com/thanksgiving.html, then we headed over to the farm to spend the day with family. That's another post.