MFW Week Five (Reno Air Races)

Some highlights from this week:

In history we studied the early American settlers.  We learned that when they didn't have glass, they would use oiled paper for windows.  It lets more light shine through and repels water.  So of course we made some, too.

The oil paper is on the left and the regular paper on the right.

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For Physical Education Rose enjoyed riding her scooter, playing on the playground, and riding her bike.  We have been going biking about three evenings a week in different locations around town. 

biking next to the Sparks Marina

biking next to the Truckee River

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In addition to reading during school time and free time, Rose continues to read to daddy each evening.  (He reads to her for about 45 minutes to an hour and she reads to him for about 10 minutes)

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Here Rose is laying out her Bible verse that she learned as part of our My Father's World Bible lesson.

Rose also does the Bob Jones University Bible lessons.  She enjoys watching the videos and doing the activities with it.  Here she is mixing up pudding as part of the lesson on creation.  (it was cute)

Rose also started memorizing Genesis chapter one on her own.  I thought maybe we would do that but hadn't really decided when.  

One day, she comes in the bathroom, where I am showering and wants me to listen to what she learned.  To my surprise she recited several verses.  She had been reading and studying her Bible so she could memorize them......and I didn't even know she was working on that!

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She continues to love all things art related.  We are doing several art things. 

(The activities in MFW, I Can Do All Things by Barry Stebbing, Abeka art, and various other things)

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Well this is a little more difficult to blog about....  

We ended our week with a Field Trip to the Reno Air Races.  We had a fabulous time.  Thanks to our homeschool group, we had passes to get in the pits and see all the planes up close.  We enjoyed looking at all the different types of air planes, watching some of the races, and some the air plane performances.  Thankfully we left 2 hours before the close of the show due to Chad having to go to a reception at work that evening.  

As you know, the races ended so tragically that day when a pilot somehow lost control and crashed into the reserved seating area, killing 11 people.  We are so thankful that God arranged for us to not be there during that time.  We are also thankful that more lives were not lost.  We pray that this tragedy can somehow bring people closer God and they seek Him.

MFW Week Four (Hot Air Balloons)

Here are some snippits from our week:

On Monday we went on a Hiking Field Trip on Mount Rose.  It was Labor Day, so daddy went with us!

Can you see Lake Tahoe in the background?

We hiked 2.6 miles up to this waterfall, then back down 2.6 miles...

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Our memory verse is John 8:16.  Rose decorated this candle to help us think about the verse.

Rose has her Keepers At Home uniform on because we started Keepers Club this week.  :0)

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We studied different native American tribes this week.  The wigwam craft, daddy did with her one evening...

 

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This week one of the things we studied was the stars.  Out of all the many books that we read this week, this book really stood out:

Rose picked up the constellations fast and enjoys trying to find them out her window.  This book is going on our "to buy" list.  

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On Friday we went on another Hiking Field Trip.  This time it was with some homeschool friends at Galena Park.   We arrived at the trail head early so Rose could do some nature study and nature sketching.  It was a beautiful place!

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To celebrate a job well done in handwriting review our curriculum suggested eating Alphabet Soup for lunch.  Well, we do not normally eat canned foods, but this sounded fun. 

I guess our taste buds disagreed (they are used to homemade soups).  Neither one of us liked eating this canned soup.  It was gross.  Rose ended up eating a sandwich on some freshly homemade bread instead.

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We ended our week by getting up at 4:30 AM to go watch the Reno Hot Air Balloon Races.  It starts off with some balloons doing a pre dawn show.  It was beautiful and worth getting up for.
(Chad was with us too...he is taking the photos)

  

After that, we watched to the sunrise.  Then at about 7 or so, the balloons started to inflate.

 

And then we watched them fill the sky....

 

 

Very, very neat thing to see!

MFW Adventures Week Three (Lake Tahoe)

How can school not be fun when you have a Field Trip to Lake Tahoe!  

Tuesday was the first day of school for the public school here...  So some of the homeschoolers decided to celebrate not being 'behind a desk' by going to Lake Tahoe.  (what fun!)

Man, It was beautiful!  Rose enjoyed meeting some new friends.  They swam, buried themselves in the sand, and even tried to catch crawfish.

Yes, I think we are really going to enjoy Lake Tahoe.

Science is one of Rose's favorite things....  We did some more experiments with air and water.

Here she is working on her ordinal numbers.

This was a fun craft - Jesus sun-catcher.  

We placed letters on wax paper, shaved some crayons and scattered them over the paper, placed another piece of wax paper on top, then Rose ironed the papers.  We then cut some construction paper and made a border.  She has requested to make more....so we probably will.

We had an additional outing this week.  Chad took us to the Sparks Rib Cook off on Thursday.  

Here we are enjoying a very delicious lunch!!

Rose enjoyed candy made in Italy

and cooling off in the fountains

Yes she loves to paint, in addition to our art curriculum, she loves to do additional painting, drawing and crafts.

She painted this picture on a canvas some friends sent her.

It was a fabulous week!  We continue to learn and have so much fun along the way!

Pyramid Lake

We are enjoying getting to know our new area.

We spent one Saturday at Pyramid Lake.  It is on a reservation and not crowded.  It was really beautiful.

Well once we arrived, we did drive off the hard sand and onto the soft sand.

Thankfully there were some nice folks down the beach that came and pulled us out.

Ahh, now on to the fun!

The water looks black but it is clear.  The sand was black.  We could see our feet while standing in the water.

We had a great time!