Unit 8 Day 1-3

Last week we finished up Unit 7: baby moses -first plague, letter F and the number 7.

Unit 8 covers the Passover and Exodus from Egypt, letter G, and the number 8.


I have been looking over my blog photos and saw how many of the photos are taken at the kitchen table. That has me thinking that it's time for a little change. Maybe soon we'll try to mix it up by moving to a new location. Though, there is something to be said for a good routine and stability.

This is what the daily lesson plans for Heart of Dakota, Little hands to Heaven look like.

They are very easy to follow. The introduction estimates that each square takes about 5 minutes to complete, giving you 30 minutes of material.

I have found that we spend more than 5 minutes on most sections.

Yet, the divisions make it easy to spread the lesson out through the entire day, or you can just sit down and do them all at once.

We typically split up our day, doing the bible story and bible activity in the morning and then the other activities in the afternoon.

I generally have the bible story CD playing while we do our afternoon activities.

At first I thought the music was pretty lame and hokey, but the kids like it.

Cora goes around singing the songs and when we read the bible story she stops me and tells me that this is like the one in her songs. It really does helps her to learn and remember the stories. As lame as the songs are, even I find myself humming them throughout the day.