For arts we made a people paper chain using different colors to demonstrate that Jesus loves all the children of the world. The girls gave them all faces and hair, some got clothes. Dad got underwear on the back of his! I have no idea why they thought this was funny to do. Grandpa got glasses.
We are reading the Magic Treehouse series for reading. They are a fairly quick read and the girls really like them. We are reading one each week. This week we read the one about castles - okay I forgot the title already.... The girl, Annie, is 7 and her brother, Jack, is 8. They go on adventures. Annie's personality is alot like Anna's and Jack's is much more like Emma so I think they relate really well to the books.
The girls also have learned a new song - Hello to all the children of the world. They really like singing. And will sing all the time. They also really like the Spanish and Typing so these activities really don't need to be scheduled because they will do them just because they want to.
I read a book this summer that basically said a homeschool mom needs to make school fun for her kids. So, I have been really working on this, especially for Anna. Emma loves school and is happy with the little things but Anna would prefer to just play (wouldn't we all). So I spent a lot of time this summer working on file folder games. I will take some pictures soon. I have some for adding where there are problems and they need to match the answer. Or, one is for language arts and they have to categorize nouns by person, place, or thing. They both enjoy these and it is a nice break from the regular school work. I am also really working hard on doing at least one art project a week.
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