My Father's World- Bb for Butterfly

We finished My Father's World-K on February 28th!!! Em is fascinated with butterflies and I thought it would be nice to save the Butterfly unit as our last lesson for Kindergarten.

Words to Remember: 

God can make me new.

BIBLE

We discussed how God can change our hearts from hating him to loving him. We are all sinners and we don't love God. The only way we can love God is by Him working in our hearts through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. Then I pointed back to how the caterpillars become butterflies. At first, I was kind of wondering how I am going to explain this truth to Em but then I was amazed at her response. She said that, "Oh, just like what my Bible says about Paul. He is a changed man!" She narrated the life of Paul and I thought that it was an awesome moment of learning- how she remembers the Bible account of Paul's life. I was speechless and I couldn't help but praise God that Em is learning the truth about God. 

We also discussed about Zaccheus (Luke 19:1-9) and Colossians 3:9-14.

Memory Verse

At the end of the week, Em memorized 2 Corinthians 5:17

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

Here is a video of Em memorizing the verse:

Cut and Paste Memory Verse

SCIENCE

We learned about The Life Cycle of a Butterfly.

She acted out the four stages of a butterfly's life:

All curled up like an egg.

 Crawling like a caterpillar

Still like a chrysalis.

Flying like a butterfly.

Here is Em trying a Monarch Butterfly wings on from our museum visit last October 2013.

Since I am giving birth in a month,we decided to order caterpillars after I give birth. Just wanna make sure that we are home when the butterflies emerge, which is 3 to 4 weeks from the caterpillar stage. 

Some of her finished works:

Handwriting

Narration

ARTS AND CRAFT

Drawing

We made some butterflies and learned a little about symmetry. Ideas and instructions are from Mama Jenn.

Here is Z working on his butterfly. He enjoyed the whole process: from mixing the paints to pressing on the cardstock and opening the finished product. He was proud to show Em his painting.

Z's butterfly

We also made a Monarch Butterfly Art from KidWorldCitizen.

She really enjoyed painting and her finished product turned out cute. I was worried that the black glue paint will all smudge up that's why we didn't put enough black paint. We are planning to do it again and make a thicker black outline.

Other craft

I let Em choose some pom-poms and I surprised her with this clothespin caterpillar. Z saw it and requested for a blue one.

MUSIC TIME

Listening to classical music while flying and dancing like a butterfly.

WORDS TO REMEMBER 

Copywork and Badge

Our caterpillar from all the badges she earned.

Caterpillar badges from Training Them Up

Here are all our Words to Remember cards turned into fridge magnets. We used business card magnets like these.

SNACKS

Surprise!

Idea is from here.

FiELD TRIP
To celebrate our last MFW-K unit, we had a mini-field trip where she enjoyed a train ride and a pony ride.

 

 

Praise God for My Father's World and thank God for the opportunity and the blessing to teach Em and Z. To God be the glory!

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My Father's World-K Snack Ideas

Helping out in the kitchen has been a fun and important part of learning with Em. She really enjoys it. It is also a great way for me to integrate math, reading, following instructions, and also basic and kid-friendly kitchen skills. Some snacks we prepared are also useful in reinforcing the lessons for each unit. 

We are one unit away from finishing Kindergarten!! Yay!! We didn't get to prepare snacks for each unit but I'm planning on having a Snacks Day and update this post once we get to do it.

 Unit 1: Sun

 

 Unit 2: Moon

We made a moon cake using the recipe from My Father's World Teacher's Manual. 

 The phases of the moon:

Unit 4: Apple

This is my very first time making an appe pie. I would say not bad for the first attempt. Since then, Em's been requesting to make one when there's a holiday or special occasion. We used the recipe from the book How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (one of Em's favorite books).

 Unit 5: Nest

Bird on a nest using pretzel sticks, cereal, nutella and peeps candy.

Unit 6: Turtle

This one turned out really cute. (I didn't let Em eat the turtle's head since I used sharpies to draw its eyes and mouth.)

Unit 8: Dinosaur

Unit 9: Octopus

Unit 11: Insect

Honey sandwich

Mango yogurt with honey

Unit 13: Cow

We made butter using the recipe from the Teacher's Manual. It took a long time for the butter to form, we had to ask Daddy to have a little workout by shaking the bottle vigorously. :)

The finished product. We enjoyed it with some crackers. 

Unit 18: Zebra

We made Zebra pudding using the recipe from the Teacher's Manual.

Unit 24: Vegetables

I used this opportunity to have Em try a new vegetable (turnip) but she just took few bites- she said she doesn't like it. On the other hand, cucumbers has always been Em and Z's favorite.

With each bite, Z would show me the cucumber and said "Boat", and then "shark!". I don't see it though..hehe. 

Mean Green Juice using kale, celery, green apples, ginger and lemon.

Juicing has been a part of our weekly menu plan. (Since I have limited skills in cooking veggies, this has been a great way to incorporate veggies in our family's diet.)

Unit 26: Yellow

Rainbow Fruit Salad

Z yelled "mine!" when he saw the fruits. Em wanted to make another rainbow but we ran out of strawberries. She ended up eating Z's leftover.

There are tons of snack ideas online but I tried to stick to ideas that are easy to prepare and simple enough for Em to make. :) And also, Em is allergic to peanuts and Z is allergic to almost everything so our snacks need to be allergen-free.

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