Friday, June 8, 2012

School's Out

We still had a few more weeks from the My Father's World curriculum to complete for the year.  The letters/phonics/reading of this curriculum has been a good review for Corban and introduction for Abigail, and the weekly unit studies have been filled with fun activities to all do together! 
V is for Vegetable
we tried a new veggie (white asparagus), made kale chips, 
sprouted beans, a sweet potato and carrots, and painted and stamped with vegetables.
Q is for Quail (birds).  
We strung popcorn as bird food, looked at lots of bird books, and did an oil/water test to show how ducks are waterproofY is for Yellow (colors)
We mixed paints and talked about primary and secondary colors and made paper rainbows.
We had a yellow dinner!  Yellow shirts were required, yellow flowers, plates and napkins were on the table, and we ate yellow food (eggs, corn, squash, pepper, apple, pineapple, mango, banana, and lemonade). We even saw a full rainbow while eating!

we celebrated our last day by making (and eating!) this rainbow cake!
preparation was similar to these cupcakes we made before
Corban and Abigail liked mixing the colors and then decorating with rainbow sprinkles, 
and the cake turned out so fun!