A bit of yummy...

I just had to share a picture of these fabulous cupcakes I made on Friday. It was a new recipe that I found on Pinterest (my new favorite cookbook! LOL)...Well actually I was looking up a different recipe and then found this one off the site I was taken to.

I always love it when people make cutesie desserts and I was determined it was my turn! I found some cupcake wrappers with matching toppers for $1.00 at Wal*Mart and decided I needed to use them. I found a can of pumpkin in my pantry and decided to try to find a pumpkin cupcake--I succeeded with finding this recipe and after tasting, it is a definite keeper!

Here are my Cinnamon Streusel Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting...

 Aren't they yummy looking?

Here is me with my cupcakes. My husband's idea not mine. LOL! I had been preparing for Sabbath all day and doing a bunch of baking, so I look rather worse the for the wear! LOL! 

As for their taste...mmmm...definitely a hit and a keeper! Delicious!

Here is the link to the original recipe--the only difference is that I opted out of the white chocolate in the frosting--why mess with a perfectly good cream cheese frosting?! LOL!

School Days ~ Week #10

Hard to believe we are already 10 weeks into 1st grade!
It's amazing what 10 weeks can accomplish with skill levels!

Week #10 October 29th- November 2nd

LITTLE BRITCHES ~ 1ST GRADE

Bible

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.
Proverbs 12:22

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 13:1

*Memorize the Books of the Bible

We began with our memorization of the Books of the Bible--this week was Genesis and Exodus. I will be teaching him a song over the upcoming weeks where you SING the books of the Bible. I was taught a similar song when I was little and I still use that song to find books of the Bible during church! LOL!

Activity

*Dictate a letter

To remember that the Bible is a letter from our Father God to us, Little Britches dictated a letter to his Aunt Cindy, signed it and then mailed it.

Reading

long vowel i spelled y

long vowel e spelled y

The clapping syllables really helped Little Britches on this and I don't think he'll have issues with it.

We are continuing our reading in the Bible reader including in Day 1 and Day 2 of creation. I wrote the new words to learn for each day's reading on the laminated and magnetic 3 x 5 cards and put them up on the board for review. This works perfectly for us.

Math

A continuation of addition practice. He is getting so much better, though adding numbers larger than 4 worries him at times. But he uses a number line and does splendidly!

 

Science

"Under the Sea"

Things Outdoors pg. 28-29 USBORNE

We watched the Magic School Bus Episode "Takes a Dive" to go along with this--a fun way to reinforce science.

Experiments:

*Underwater vision

We examined a spoon resting in a glass of water and discussed why it looks broken. Then we moved it until we found the point where it appears straight.

*Water Density

This was the real joy this week. I followed an experiment from the 101 Great Science Experiments book I own. Using corn syrup, oil and water, we made density layers and then dropped a collection of things into it and noted how the objects varied in their density. Very cool experiment for Little Britches AND Momma!

 The objects we decided to drop in: a peanut, Lego, plastic jewel, match, chocolate chip, screw, plastic beads, bow tie noodle, wood token and popcorn kernels.

 Here is our jar with the three layers of liquid and all those things dropped in. We had things go to every level which was great since I was hoping that would happen! LOL!

Little Britches filled out his observation sheet drawing pictures of the liquid levels and where the objects ended up.

Geography
"Beginning Geography" (Evan-Moor)

*Landforms and Bodies of Water Puzzle

We scattered the pieces of the puzzle around and then he had to match the picture of the landform or body of water with it's name and description.

*Landforms and Bodies of Water Review

We did three levels of review and I am tickled that he only missed one question!

History

Story of the World: Volume 1

Chapter 2: Egyptians lived on the Nile River

We began by reviewing the lineage of the biblical character Nimrod--reminding ourselves that he is a descendant Cush--son of Ham--son of Noah. We then learned that Noah's son Ham had another son named Mizraim who is the one who settled in Egypt. Then we began reading Chapter 2 from SOTW about Ancient Egypt.

We completed our map of Upper and Lower Egypt from the workbook.

Imagine our surprise when we discovered that the Bible Study at church this past week was on Ancient Egypt. Never have I seen Little Britches so excited about a Bible Study! LOL! He even went up when it was over and told the speaker that he had been learning about Ancient Egypt in school!

Art

My mother-in-law rocked it this week with helping Little Britches create an Under the Sea diorama! I sent him over with an empty cracker box, paper and stencils...and he brought me home this!

He was so proud of it! 

We added some shells on the bottom of it from our collection we picked up this year at Jekyll Island, GA and last year at Virginia Beach, VA!

That's our week!

School Days~ Week #9

Brrr...talk about change in weather! Last week our weather was a beautiful and pleasant 70-80 degrees! Perfect fall days with sunshine and breezes. Today it's a mere 38 and raining! I want my fall weather back!!!!! LOL!

Week #9~ October 22-26th

LITTLE BRITCHES

Bible

Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 12:18

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.
Proverbs 12:22

Reading

U like /us/ in the forms of a, e, i, o and u

Wor like /wer/

Long i spelled igh

Yeah. After trying to teach the /uh/ sound when it is a, e, i and o....I decided that it was no WONDER English is so hard to learn! I mean there is no rhyme or reason for when this one will be the case! And some of the words that were supposed to have the /uh/ sound didn't have it when I said them! LOL! Like "robin"--I say "Ro-bin" but they had it like it needed to say "Ro-bun". Even a few words Little Britches sounded out on his own, but there weren't any "uh" sounds in them! LOL! So I didn't bother to teach him differently in those circumstances

 We also began with the Bible Reader included in the MFW-1st grade curriculum.

I took the words he was to learn and wrote them each onto my laminated/magnetic 3 x 5 cards and put them up on the white board. We reviewed them each morning and he read his first page of the Bible Reader to me and daddy several times during the week. The written orange words are ones he quickly knows by sight. "Only" is at the bottom because it's a bit more tricky to figure out.

We also did a quick blend review with this set of worksheets from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Activities

 *Hebrew/Greek and the Bible

He had to mimic the Greek alphabet letters. He loved this.

*Timeline

We put our timeline up on the wall near the ceiling. Little Britches chose a dark green yarn for the line. We put up the Hebrew card he had colored earlier in the week at the beginning and added a picture of he and Baby Britches.

 This is the view of the timeline from Little Britches' desk.

Art

My mother-in-law had him practice making a tower of cards then had him draw shapes to make a Tower of Babel. He learned that you can use shapes to draw animals too.

Math

*Addition and Time

Little Britches completed a few more worksheets and enjoyed playing the Hickory-Dickory-Dock game from a shoebox learning center EBOOK I bought during the Scholastic Express Dollar Days. He loved it except he didn't win which then led to a lesson on good sportsmanship. I actually went through and printed out quite a few of the games and laminated them for future use.

He enjoyed doing this Angry Birds Time match worksheet. I think it's from the Angry Birds unit from 1 +1 +1 = 1.

History

Completed up our study on Babylon and Nimrod with coloring pages and activities

Geography

Worked on the unit for bodies of water in our Beginning Geography book. We found the bodies of water studied (Lake Superior and St. Lawrence River) on the pull down US map and the globe.

Science

"Beach and Waves"

Things Outdoors p. 24-27 USBOURNE

Perfect timing for this study since we just got home from the beach! We learned about the surf and how waves are made.

Experiment: We fastened a piece of string to a doorknob and then worked it up and down from across the room to see how the waves work.

 Little Britches thought this was exciting...

Baby Britches eagerly wanted a turn...

Little Britches used this knowledge over the weekend as he heard about Hurricane Sandy. He told me "We learned about that!" when they started discussing how the hurricane can be out at sea and still cause big waves.

(Yay for reinforcement of our lesson!)

Read Aloud

We finished up Mouse and the Motorcycle this week. When it ended, he didn't believe me and I had to show him that it was over! LOL! Needless to say he's eager to start up the second book in the series.

I had him tell me his most favorite part and draw a coordinating picture.

 

"My favorite part was when he rode in the ambulence."

BABY BRITCHES:

Baby Britches and I went on an expedition to see what treasures we could find. We found some beautiful leaves, a cat-tail and some fun seed pods. Here is a pic of our treasures:

Baby Britches only had to see the bright red leaves one time before he was pointing them out to me as we rode around the farm on the 4wheeler. And he LOVED the seed pods. I learned they are from the Trumpet Vine (aka hummingbird vine) that grows wild here all over the fences. We opened each pod and he could use his little fingers to get all the papery like seeds out inside. We saved the pod casing as they will make great little boats!

Here is a pic of Baby Britches working on his "schoolwork"...LOL!

It was a good week and we got through a lot of schoolwork as well as enjoyed afternoons in the glorious weather!

If you are in the path of the storm on the East coast, please stay safe!!! 

We are thinking and praying for your safety!!