Monday is for Menu's

Sigh. I am SOOO bad about flying by the seat of my pants when it comes to meal preperation. But I have a *good* excuse...I'm a single mom for 2 1/2 days every week, so those are the days I just stare into the refrigerator waiting for something to talk to me. When hubby is home, I try to plan meals he will enjoy. BUT I've decided that I really need to STOP doing that because I end up eating things that I really shouldn't...and if I shouldn't my boys shouldn't either. So starting today I'm going to have a Menu Monday posts where I list the things I'm considering on incorporating into our meals this week. I don't know if you know this, but I have a serious addiction to cooking magazines and cookbooks! I am 100% game to try new recipes and I'm always on the search for the "Next Great Recipe" for my family!

Now this week is tricky because Thanksgiving is coming up on Thursday, so I'll be cooking most of the day for that...but, here is the current rundown of things to cook this week...

Monday:

Dinner-

Chicken Noodle Soup w/my homemade Turkey Stock

Fresh loaf of my Three Flour Bread

Tuesday:

Breakfast-

Oats w/apples and raisins

Toast w/peanut butter

Lunch-

Black bean and Cheese Quesidilas

Apples/Carrots (whichever each boy chooses)

Dinner-

Chicken Noodle Soup

Bread and/or crackers

Wednesday:

Breakfast-

Cereal w/Toast n Peanut butter

Lunch-

*Undecided*

Dinner-

Chicken Noodle Soup

Bread and/or Crackers

Cinnamon Rolls

Thursday:

THANKSGIVING!!

Breakfast-

buttermilk Pancakes w/maple syrup

Lunch-

WYCF (Whatever you can find)

Dinner-

Garlic Herb Roasted Turkey

Mashed Potatoes (yukon golds!)

Turkey Gravy

Stuffing (I have a new organic one to try)

Easy Crescent Rolls

Green Salad w/homemade dressing

Mac n Cheese Casserole

Sparkling Organic 100% juices

Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie

Friday:

Breakfast-

Eggs, Bacon, Crescent Rolls

Lunch/Dinner-

LEFTOVERS!!

Saturday:

Depends on what the hubby wants...he cooks breakfast for me every Saturday so I can have the extra time to get ready for church! Such a sweetheart!

I have a list of various snacks and desserts I might make this week too...this is the time of year when I LOVE to bake!!

MFW-K Highlights: Week #8- Dd Dinosaur

We enjoyed our Dd Dinosaur unit this week...here is an overview of what went on in our classroom.

Memory Verse: Hosea 2:23

We used the wonderful scripture helps by 2 Teaching Mommies!

MFW-K Unit #8

We started by coming up with words that we knew started with Dd:

Then we continued with our exercises from the manual for days 1-5. There was marked improvement with the blend ladders which was wonderful!

At first I was a bit apprehensive about this unit since we don't agree with a young earth theory and don't believe that dinosaurs were created at creation...so I had to adjust a lot of things from the science section. But we still talked about how they were still created and looked at various books. We discussed how much bones can tell us. We learned about what a Paleontologist is,  what makes fossils, and added the word "extinction" to our vocabulary box.

I found some good vocabulary matchbook helps for dinosaurs on Homeschoolshare.

We also did a dinosaur patterns math worksheet.

As part of our geography, we filled out a dinosaur world map to learn where dinosaur fossils have been found...He was in shock that dino bones had been found in Antartica!

Here are two of the books we read...

They were great because there is no references to evolution and uses the terms "long time ago"...Little Britches liked the pictures and learning about these two dinosaurs.

We learned how to draw dinosaurs...He opened one of the books and copied from it. I was EASILY able to identify which ones he'd copied!

We enjoyed reading Danny and the Dinosaur for Day 6...we also snagged Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur.

Other things we worked on this week...

I laminated a Read, Build and Write sheet and we worked on Thanksgiving words...

And we put up our Fall Sight Words...using a great idea from the For the Love of Kidnergarten blog!

We take this down every day to review the words. He's definitely getting faster and recognized some of them in our scriptures for THIS week!

We started a FIAR again with the wonderful book Cranberry Thanksgiving...I will post all our projects for that together in a separate post.

All in all it was a wonderful week!

Links

Homeschoolshare~ Dinosaur World Map

Homeschoolshare~ Dinosaur Vocabulary Matchbooks

Enchanted Learning~ Dinosaur Patterns

Read, Build, And Write Mats w/vocabulary

Schoolsparks.com~ Ordinal Numbers Worksheets

2 Teaching Mommies~ Hosea 2:23 Scripture Helps

Beanie Baby and 10 Commandments Printable

Just a quick post...

I just had to share this picture of the crazy Baby Britches! LOL! He had just discovered a love for black beans and quesidillas...and then styled his hair with bean juice. LOL!

On Sabbath, Little Britches was given his first scripture memorization for Sabbath school--the 10 Commandments. Since we had just finished a scripture, we are now working on these for our weekly memorization. Right now I'm only having him learn two at a time...once we get to the last five, I'll probably increase that since they are pretty easy. I tried to think of the best way to teach them since there are so many. I found exactly what I was looking for in this great 10 Commandment Train by Christian Preschool Printables. Every week Little Britches will color the car that goes with the commandment we are learning and we cut them out and hook it up to the engine on our bulletin board.

That's all for now! I'll be posting our MFW highlights for last week tomorrow!