Our chronological reading of the Old Testament has been going fairly well, and we have finished off the book of Joshua and started Judges this week. Along with the scripture studies, I try to have the girls read about one Ancient Civilization mentioned in the book we are reading. This week we studied the Phoenicians. Although not specifically named in Joshua or Judges, there is mention of Sidonians (from Sidon).
Phoenician ship drawing by Raven
Notebooking page with a drawing of things Phoenicians traded.
Phoenician man, and a print out simple article about Phoenicians.
Along with the books shown above, we read 2 chapters from On the Shores of the Great Sea; specifically Conquerors of the Sea and Early Pioneers.
Raven also made minibooks for the first three judges of Israel:
In our Polar Animal lapbooks, we have completed all our minibooks and placed them into the folders. We are now finished except for a cover design for Raven’s lapbook.
With all the preparation to leave for Wisconsin this coming week, we decided that we were at a good pausing point in our projects to leave them behind while we have a 2 week vacation.
In other news around our house, I have been crocheting up a pile of baby booties and hats for both myself and friends.
This last set is my absolute favorite. I bought this yarn at Hobby Lobby, and it was baby yarn. It didn’t even look camouflage when I bought it, but as I worked it up someone mentioned to me that the booties looked like little army boots. So, for the hat I made a little brim to look like a field cover. So cute! Now that we know we are having a boy (woohoo!), I am going to bring these to the hospital and get a pic of our little guy in them for daddy. Hopefully they will fit!
In case you are looking for the patterns for these items, I will share my links:
The baby booties are the easiest pattern I have been able to find, from LionBrand.
The earflap hat pattern can be found here.
The camouflage hat is something I came up with, so I don’t have a pattern for it.
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