January means Snow, February means Love

Well, January went by fast which I am okay with. We have replaced the snowflakes, and started decorating for Valentine’s Day. We will be learning about Love this month, and what the Bible has to say about Love. Will also celebrate Presidents Day and learn about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Here is a glance at what we will be doing the first week of February

Week 1
Cover in our family worship time- Love for God, What does the Bible say?
Deuteronomy 6:1-25, 10:12, 11:1, Joshua 22:5, Psalm 31:23, Matthew 22:37, 2 Thessalonians 3:5, and Jude 1:21. These are some of the verses we will look at over the week.

Do fun activities on Groundhog Day
Matching Groundhog's
Read about the Groundhog
Make a book for early readers 
Make a book for fluent readers
Draw and write pages, here, and here (1st-6th grade) at least in my home, my older girls love to draw and write.
Spelling
Easy animal report
Finish and send out our Valentines. We make homemade Valentines for our family, and the girls make them for each other. This year I bought a little stamp set-Melissa & Doug Butterfly & Heart Stamp Set. I can't wait till they open it.  I will post our Valentine plans later this week.

We will go over the Letter E as we continue down the Alphabet. I'll post more on the later.  

Snowflakes, Hot Chocolate, and Mittens

Well it is 20 degrees not as cold as it could be but still cold. I have decided that we cannot have hot chocolate every time it is cold out. So my girls and I have decided to have hot chocolate only when it snows. Well it seems to snow almost every day including tonight, we are going to be drinking lots of hot chocolate anyways this winter. Today we did a few activities simple but fun along with a book called The Mitten that we read a lot. My girls love animals and snow so it is a fantastic book us.

Here is a fun matching worksheet on snowflakes Match the snowflakes

We are going to read The Mitten 20th Anniversary Edition

and work on this Mitten Printable book

While drinking Hot chocolate

Keep warm,

Blessings,

Pamela

2011 Monthly School Themes

Each month in our family/school we have a theme.

We will study something new that goes with the season of the month, or the season of life we are in.

I will be posting activites and ideas on here, so it is easier to look back and see what we have done through out the year.

If you feel encouraged to do the same you can copy any of the activites and ideas we are doing. Please just mention were you found the idea so others can be inspired as well.

January ~ Snowflakes