MFW Adventures Week 14

Bible: We learned how Jesus is "the Way the Truth and the Life".

History: We are continuing our visit to the fifty states. This week we studied: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina.

.Science:  This week we discovered interesting facts about the Robin, Chickadee, and the Northern Oriole. Here are the drawing the kids did for each bird nest.

Ashley's

Jake's

Emily's

We studied about the state bird of Connecticut, the Robin. Here is our 14 feet long measurement, the amount of worms that a robin can eat in one day. Jake was amazed that they eat that much.  He asked if he could eat 14 feet of gummy worms to see if he could do it too. My response, NO.

Jake drawing his line of 14 feet

The kids enjoyed their time making Robin's Nests. We chose to make chocolate play dough, instead of the edible recipe provided through MFW manual.

We decorated our tree for the birds by stringing popcorn and dried fruit. We were amazed that the birds ate all the popcorn and fruit within two days.  They really love the stuff around here.

We filled up our bird feeders to see who would come and visit. I am happy to report that we had several birds come by for a snack this week.  The kids love watching the humming birds at their feeder the most.  They are such cute little birds.

We also learned that a chickadee (the state bird of Massachusetts) weighs the same as 4 pennies!

Read Aloud: We started reading a new book in the Laura Ingalls series, Farmer Boy (pg1-49)

So far my kids and I are not sure if we will be finishing this book. This week we read the first four chapters.  Within these chapters the books talks about five teenage boys in the class that try to upset the teacher. Once the teacher tries to disciple them, they beat him up. These boys even kill a teacher by beating him.  My children are very sensitive to violence and I'm not sure this book is for us.  We will try one or two more chapters and see what happens.
Since we already eating the left over popcorn from our bird activity, we decided to try the experiment we read about in Farmer Boy.   You fill one glass with milk and another with popped popcorn, you can add the popcorn to the milk one kernel at a time without the milk overflowing. Worked for us perfectly.  The kids couldn't resist trying the milk with the popcorn in it.