Art

Trinity's first pop-up card.

Trinity can be heard asking, at least once a day, if she can bead.  We recently signed out a video from the library.  It gives instruction on making wire links, clasps, swirls, and little jump rings.  Trinity has picked it up very well and improves her fine motor skills constantly.  She enjoyed listening to "The Hobbit" audiobook while she made this bracelet.

We love to paint pottery.  Here is a mug Kyler painted just before school started.  What an excellent job Kyler!

Historical Fiction

Trinity is reading a historical fiction novel set in Yale, B.C. in 1882.  From a description in the novel she has drawn the map below.  The one above is a current map of the town.  She was so thrilled to see that St. John the Divine church is still standing on Douglas St.   We will take a field trip there when she is finished her novel study.

Kyler has been reading "Stop that Stagecoach!" which is a historical fiction novel that depicts a journey from Montreal to Peterborough (Upper Canada) in 1833.  We looked on Google maps to compare the time it takes now to how long it took back then.

Map from "Stop that Stagecoach!"

Science

This week Kyler has been studying the parts of the flower.  He collected flowers outside and identified their parts.  He pressed them and will make bookmarks from them when they are dry.  Here is a drawing he did and labeled.

Trinity has been studying the circulatory system this week.  She made  a poster to encourage people to make their hearts stronger with exercise.

Below is a rough draft of the project Trinity is doing for Science.  She has also written a bibliography for this project which is in the Language Arts section of the blog.

Rough Draft

Esophagus                                                                           6604 Digestive Ave.

                                                                                                Trinity's Body, BC

                                                                                                V2R 2C5

Dear Human Body Corporation,

         I am writing to ask you not to fire me because I have many uses in Trinity's body. If I wern't here Trinity's body would have serious problems getting the food into the stomach. God created me in Trinity's mother's womb.  Psalm 139:13  For you created my inmost being;  you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

       I am the Esophagus, and I am under the pharynx.

I work with the mouth and throat to get food to the stomach.  After Trinity chews and swallows the food go down the throat.  There is a little flap guy called Mr.Epiglottis that stops the food from going down the windpipe.

My peristalsis helps food to go down along me.  Even if Trinity is upside down my muscles squeeze it down to her stomach.   My cardiac sphincter stops acid from going out of the stomach and burning me.

       If i weren't in  the body the food would not get into the stomach, the body would not get fuel, and Trinity would starve and die.

God created us to look like Him.  His purpose for the whole body is to do His will.  He made the human body so it could please Him.  God made all the human body to send messages, receive messages and do what the brain tells them to do. God made our wonderful parts in wonderful ways and the only sad part about that is that we don't stop to see that. God is a wonderful God!

Way to go Trinity!

Language Arts

Kyler is learning the parts of a friendly letter.

Below, Kyler has written a rough draft of a report on the book
"Stop that Stagecoach!".  The final draft is on the 'Historical Fiction' page.

At the end of Kyler's first Light Unit there was a self check that Kyler did.  His is picking up new concepts very well and he is much better able to work independently.

Trinity has a rough draft of a persuasive letter on the Science page of this blog.  Here is her Bibliography:

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Bibliography

The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody: Down, Down, Down: The Inside Story of Digestion Slim Goodbody,  1980 . Full Video.
Discovery Education. Web. 15 October 2012. <http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/>.

The Magic School Bus: For Lunch Scholastic,  1994 . Full Video.
Discovery Education. Web. 15 October 2012. <http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/>.

Cerebellum,  (2000). Standard Deviants School Human Nutrition: The Digestive System http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/

Cochran,  (1992). Food Into Fuel: Our Digestive System. http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/

Macaulay, David (2008). "The Way We Work." Down the Hatch, pg 113


Trinity learned how to take notes this week.  She watched a Discovery Education film on researching and gathering information and learned practiced taking notes with the film.  After she watched another Discovery Ed. video on Diversity in Canada and practiced again.  She loved it!  It kept her engaged and helped her learn.  What a great skill!

  

Bible Cursive

Kyler's cursive is very tidy.  He works hard to make every letter as perfect as possible.  The great thing about writing so slowly is that there is more time to hide the verses in his heart.

Kyler picked these flowers in the first week of school.  He identified the parts of the flower and then dried them for future artsie use.  Et Voila!

Trinity's cursive is about the same as it was last year but her manuscript has greatly improved.  It seems that she gravitates toward manuscript so that works.  This is her Sunday School verse for the week of Oct. 22-26

Mapping term 1

This week Kyler is studying relief maps.  He is also learning about his role to reduce, reuse and recycle as a member of our community.

From Kyler:

This is a relief  map.  It  shows  how   high  the  surface  is.   

This  summer   we  went to the Rocky Mountain hot springs .   The Rocky Mountains is  dark  orange on  the map   because it  is very high.


Here is another mapping exercise Kyler did.

Hiking to Lindeman Lake

Our family hiked to Lindeman Lake today.  We all got some great exercise, had beautiful weather and enjoyed a gorgeous view.