R-r- ROCK

We finished the R-r-rock lesson Today.  The kids had a particularly great time with this one!

This week we learned that we can build our life on a ROCK (Jesus) by listening and obeying God or we can be like the foolish man from Matthew 7 who built his house on sand and lost it when it rained and the flood came up.  I can still hear the song in my head ;)

We started out our week with a bang! I mean, a volcanic eruption ;)  Our kids had been begging us to make a volcano since the last time we did it about a year ago so this was a treat!  I video taped the action.  I just love the excitement in their faces when the "lava" starts coming out. We also watched some real volcanos erupting via YouTube.  God Bless YouTube (when used properly).  It's insane to be able to teach a child that the largest volcano in the world is Mauna Loa in the island of Hawaii and then go and pull up a video of the last time it erupted with close ups into the lava boiling and rock melting.  Her face was priceless watching the black rock soften and melt down.   You can bet we watched it a couple of dozen times!

** INSERT GIRL'S VOLCANO VIDEO HERE **

We headed out to a local masonry place to check out all the different kinds of rock.  We took the opportunity to collect little pieces of rock that had been chipped from the large ones and were laying on the floor (aka free samples :).  We came home with quite the collection and Lucy spent some time sorting them first by size, then by shape and color.

We read Stone Soup by Marsha Brown.  Lucy had a hard time deciding what was worse, the village people not sharing their food or the soldiers tricking the village people into sharing.  I have to admit I had the same dilemma. She wrote her own (very simple) recipe for stone stoup and we made it for dinner.  Daddy took one for the team and served himself a bowl with the stone.  The girls were delighted :)

We had some fun with our handy dandy Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions and made some crystal sculptures.  We shaped a pipe cleaner into a heart and and left it in the borax solution overnight.  In the morning it was covered in tiny sparkly crystals.  Neat way to show another example of a phase change, this time from liquid to solid. 

We have many craft/activity type books around our house but this little book has been more fun than all the others put together.  Every "concoction" we make actually turns out!  AND they are all easy to make.

That concludes the science/bible portion of our studies.  I'll try and post about her reading and math lessons separately.  She is really enjoying those as well and just moved on to Hooked on Phonics First Grade after completing the Kindergarten one.  Her reading skills have taken off!  She's quite the little reader these days.

Thank You for following along.  :)