MFW ECC Highlights: Weeks 7 & 8 Canada

 

“Hello” from Canada and “Ainngai” (spelled ᐊᐃᓐᖓᐃ) from Inuktitut!

 

  Inuktitut or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut/ Eastern Canadian Inuit language is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada.

 

The past 2 weeks we have been traveling through Canada. We took a look at Canada and the Inuit people or Eskimos of Northern Canada.  We found this to be very interesting and really enjoyed our studies….. here are our highlights! 

Geography:

• Canada on the map
• Identified the provinces of Canada
• Played a Canadian province game I found online.
• We watch a documentary of the Inuit people called Nunavut (Our Land).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Fun:

 

• Lapbook: Very Last First Time – This book takes place in Ungava Bay of Eastern Canadian. (lapbook printed from homeschool share)

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• Art – inspired by Very Last First Time.  Pointillist artistic style is art made up of hundreds of tiny dots of paint.

 

  

• Ice Sculpture- everyone’s fingers are dyed, but the girls had fun with it.  (idea from Expedition Earth)

 

• Canadian Baked Blueberry Dessert- We served ours with vanilla yogurt… yum!

 

Bible:

• Memory Verses: Matthew 5:11-12
• Window on the World people groups:
  • Garifuna and Greenland
• Missionaries and Character Traits: 
  • William and Catherine Booth: Creativity, Boldness, and Discipline
  • George Muller: Faith, Graciousness, and Trust

(notebooking pages printed from Mama Jenn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science:

• scavengers and decomposers
• food chains
• Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores

Here are some science resources we enjoyed.

ECC Co-op:

Science:

• Plant Life
• Science Experiment: with leafy celery and white carnations.
• Working together in teams: Monica, our co-op science leader, had the kids work in teams to read over and complete the science experiments together.  It worked out well.

Cooking and Art:

• Inuit Soap Carving
• Maple Syrup served over shaved ice

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know???

• They think Canada has almost 1,000,000 lakes!! One of them in Manitoba is named Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake! It's a Native Cree name that literally means: "where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks." (www.ecokids.ca)

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MFW ECC Highlights Weeks 5 & 6 Mexico

 

 

I’m linking up to MFW Highlights hosted this week by Monica at Discover Their Gifts.

 

 

Hola from Mexico!!  We have been traveling through Mexico and here are our highlights.

 

We are adding our airline tickets, paper dolls, money, etc. to our lap-n-scrap book.

  Bible:

• Read from the book of Matthew
• We learned what it means to be an ambassador of Christ and that our citizenship is in Heaven!
• Praying for the people of Cuba and Haiti

Memory Verses:

• Matthew 4:4 “Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” 
• Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

Geography:

• Mexico on the map
• Country Report and Children Just Like Me Report from Expedition Earth.
• Made play-doh Aztec Temple (also from Exp. Earth)

 

 

Geography Vocabulary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science:

• Discussed cold blooded animals and how they cope with the desert temperatures.

Every time we went to do our ice experiment, it was rainy or cold…so we just discussed how desert animals burrow or stay in the shade to stay cooler.

 

• desert animals- we read books on the desert and what lives there
• desert animal lapbook (from homeschoolshare.com)

Animal Study: 

• Mexican Gray Wolf- books and lapbook (also from homeschool share…..we just need to add some final touches to it)

 

Went to the zoo and checked them out!

 

 

 

ECC Co-op:

• Art- Mexican clay suns
• Cooking- made tortillas
• Extra Fun- Mexican restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adios Mexico…..off to Canada we go!

 Did you know???

It takes the Saguaros cactus about 14 years to grow three feet tall and between 60 and 75 years to sprout its first arm. Saguaros with five arms are more than 150 years old!

MFW Highlights: ECC week #4 Goodbye United States!

 

We finished our travels through the United States!

Bible Highlights

• Memory Verse:  Matthey 1:23-  Immanuel means ‘God is with us.’
• People Group: Navajo Indians
• Missionary:  Harriett Tubman.  We discussed the underground railroad and what slavery was.
• Character traits:  Joy, Perseverance, and Compassion.
• Missionary character trait notebooking pages (from Mama Jenn)
• Made Matthew bookmark (from All of a Kind Family)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geography

• State borders
• Visited some US landmarks via youtube!  Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and the Washington Monument.
• The US flag
• US fun facts

Geography Vocabulary:  Butte

Science:

• Temperate Forests
• Layers of the Forest
• Tree Identification (Big Ladybug learned how to use an index!)

We drew the forest layers.  It was fun, and I hope it helps us remember them a little better.  I got this idea from 2 love learning.

 

ECC Co-op

Cooking:  Made some ketchup and enjoyed it on hotdogs and french fries!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field Trip:  The Zoo!

 

  I don’t know which they actually liked more….. seeing the live animals or sitting on the statues!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also enjoyed “rowing” Lentil.  You can check it out here!

 

 

 

 

Big Ladybug received her passport and airline ticket….we are off to Mexico!!!

 

 

 

 

Did you know???

The Original Ketchup (catsup) Did Not Contain Tomatoes!

Long ago ketchup began as a sauce of anchovies, walnuts, mushrooms, and kidney beans.

Read more: http://gomestic.com/cooking/little-known-facts-about-ketchup/#ixzz1YsOIgmxg

 

I hope you all had a great week!  Thanks for linking up and sharing your fun in My Father’s World!

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