Art Class

Claire Harvey has been teaching the kids an Art Class on Friday afternoons with Isabelle Harvey as her assistant.  This past Friday evening, they had an Open House.  Each child took turns explaining some of the artwork and the things they had learned.

Hair Salon

Tabitha and Isabelle were pretending to have a hair salon.

Caleb was their first and only customer of the day. He loved his spiky hair. His next style was a Mohawk.

Special Delivery

Without a refrigerator, we have to make sure that any leftovers are quickly passed on to someone else. There are always hungry people around who can help us eat the food before it goes bad. Isabelle is about to deliver this food to the guards.

School work

Hard at work!

Coyote likes to join school. He especially likes to lay on top of books and papers.

Animal Experts

What do kids do when they're not in school? Look at animal encyclopedias and compare facts! What do you do for fun?

New Outfits

I had new outfits made for the boys, and I made a matching dress for Isabelle. They weren't very excited about them, but I thought that they all looked nice in their matching outfits.

Preparing Presents

We prepared presents for the ladies who cook, clean and do laundry for our family and guest housing. The kids helped put a dishcloth, coffee, milk, and sugar into each bowl. It gave us a chance to talk about loving and serving others at Christmas time.

Isabelle is learning to sew.

Caleb loves to help in the kitchen.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

These are a few pictures from our Christmas Eve party for the mission staff.

Ian, Isabelle, and Caleb recited Luke 2:1-20. They did a great job!

The Lookout Tower

Time for another activity from The Ancient Chinese Treasure Chest.
We worked on putting together a watch tower from the Great Wall of China. It looked fairly simple, but turned out to be a bit complicated. Isabelle and Caleb helped up to a certain point (pictured above) but the lost interest.
I persevered, and twenty minutes later, with Coyote to keep me company managed to complete the tower.

Meanwhile, the kids took the figures of soldiers included and made a tower out of blocks.

Like all the great historians, they melded facts with their interpretation and imagination as evidenced by the large hammer and the giants (paper dolls) that were involved in the battles.

After School

Isabelle helped me put up a few Thanksgiving decorations that Caleb and I printed off of the internet.
Below is Isabelle reading one of our science books after school was finished. Often we do school out on the screened in porch.

Climbing Trees

Calligrapy

We have been studying the Eastern Hemisphere in history. One of the books we are using is the Ancient Chinese Treasure Chest. It comes with activities that the kids have been really excited to try. The first one we did was calligraphy with a brush, ink stone and ink stick.

It's not all fun and games

Isabelle and Caleb are helping Grandpa Wegner with the frame for the screened in porch.

Isabelle isn't working, but she's modeling surgery gear.

Caleb helped me varnish some wooden squares with numbers to use at the hospital.

The kids helped find some new plants to put in the pots in the chapel.

Isabelle Turns 8

Isabelle was very happy to have her grandparents here for her birthday. She received lots of presents, and we had a game night for her birthday party.

Malaga, Spain

We had a great trip to Spain for our conference at the beginning of June. The only bad part was that Ian was sick for the first few days. Stephen and I took turns staying with him in the hotel room while the other one of us took Caleb and Isabelle out to see things. Caleb and Isabelle are splashing in the slightly cold Mediterranean Sea.

Isabelle

The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 as an entrance arch to the World's Fair! It is the second tallest structure in France. It is the most visited paid monument in the world. The Eiffel Tower is 324 meters tall. The Eiffel Tower has three levels for visitors. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps. There are also 300 steps between the first and second levels. The third level is accessible only by elevator. Both first and second levels have restaurants.

This was Isabelle's last paper that she wrote for school this year. We looked up information on the Internet together, and she did five steps: planning, writing, revising, proofreading and publishing.