Fun Friday~ {Writing, Chores, & Field Trip}

Today for our Friday Routine we finished breakfast, threw the dishes in the sink

and went to the schoolroom for one activity~ Writing.

We read over the ideas we listed this week about Egypt~

And they all verbally told me what they learned.

They grabbed their journal to record their knowledge~

 Ella shared the book {we have had forever but never picked up} with me
and all the cool stuff she found about what we have been learning~

Short, sweet, and meaningful.

Okay NOW to the New Routine: Friday Chores...

Each twosome headed to their rooms to Organize and Tidy

then they dusted and vacuumed~

{I worked on our room and the living spaces}

The big girls and boys both cleaned their bathrooms too.

I worked right along beside them and our house was clean in about an hour and half.

The bitties mostly just played, organized, played, organized. :)

As I finished all of the things I needed to do, the kids watched another Egypt documentary.

After lunch I looked over to find Evie dangling for the counter rinsing dishes

and loading them into the dishwasher.

Now our house is clean for the weekend

and we can't wait to celebrate Will Perry and my dad's birthdays!!!

After rest today we took a little 15 minute trip to visit the Georgia Guidestones~

 SO cool that we recognized Egyptian hieroglyphics on the capstone
and the kids could read some of the letters~

 Double cool to take their photo in front of the stone with Chinese writing on it~

 A sweet couple was visiting and asked if she could take our photo!!!~

It was a fun outing and even Macy got to go!

Happy Friday and happy weekend!

The Giraffe that Walked to Paris~ {FIAR}

Over the weekend when allowing WP to pick his bd gift,

I picked up a bag of foam blocks and they have really been the hit.

They really were a great thing to when we had our first read with our story Monday morning~

They built beautiful zoos for the beautiful giraffe!

Throughout the week we have focused much of our FIAR time learning about Egypt.

We pulled out our globe and map books to map the journey of the giraffe~

 Ancient Egypt was a huge hit learning all about pyramids among other great things.

We kept a list as we learned new things~  

 One of the favorite days was watching a documentary about Champollion and used our hieroglyphic alphabet~

 While we listened to our story via YouTube,

they used the code sheet to paint their name with symbols~

 I think their favorite thing was connecting out study of Egypt with the Bible.

One day we actually read about Moses on Mt. Sinai in Egypt (not a coincidence!).

We also listened to our Mystery of History lessons~

One of the lessons referred to Stonehenge in England and we were excited to share

we live super close to America's Stonehenge in Elbert Co.

Hoping to go on a little field trip there tomorrow!!!