Fu Huo Jie 2013 Josiah...

 The kids just received one big basket of goodies to share...MiMi had sent a package with a few special toys and some fun candies from the states and fun animal print and sports plastic eggs!

 Also, MiMi sent crafts!  Josiah was excited about the toys, Evie Joy the crafts and snacks!  Here the kids are sharing their crafts with their friends who came over Easter morning for story and praise time!

 We had friends over for Easter lunch to celebrate with us! 

 Josiah was so excited about playing Daddy's game with our friends! The kids actually got a few more toys from the game, ha!  They were suppose to be symbols representing parts of the Easter story, but all the toys, the friends just gave to the kids after the game :)

 We dyed Easter Eggs with friends! 

Above, Friends with gifts opened during game...
Below, Josiah and an Easter Egg he colored after it dried.  He is having more fun coloring all over the Eggs than he showed interest in dying them.

 Giving Easter presents to his teachers and classmates! 

Sometimes i miss being home with family during the holidays but I love that my kids associate holidays with their true Biblical meanings, the true stories that give us life and hope.  And they associate these times with hospitality, that we open our home to those who don't know about these stories or how important and meaningful they are and they want to give gifts and love on others.  I wasn't planning on giving gifts to classmates this year but the kids actually asked if they could. 

Josiah March Homeschool!

 the sun was a little bright for great photos!  We were learning about measuring a cup, pint, quart and gallon with dirt- using the gravel parking lot dirt!  We loved it!

 Chinese tutor, learning how to say "throw the ball" "catch the ball"....

 learning our calendar and alphabet!

 love these cuties!

 they were making the words Jo knows how to spell

 with Chinese tutor, learning important things about trains and cars and making families with trains and cars!

 Josiah loves the Geography/ History Lessons that have cooking object lessons.  Below, he is making Potato Pie from the Europeans in the 1700's.  We were learning about William Carey during this time period and Josiah said his name is like "Carrot"!  ha! 

 

And we've been doing a bit of beginning reading!  Here are a couple of his first books- 

Pam, Tap and the 3rd one is called Tim!  

The other book is a picture book he had to write a story for!  

 For Science, We learned how the liquid soap expands, wraps around the air we blow out our blow to make a bubble- the bubbles we see our pockets of air! 

Evie Joy March Homeschool...

 so i've been meaning to do this for a while, that is actually write letters on clothespins to match with word cards.  i saw it online a year ago and at the time i couldn't find clothespins so when i did, we were leaving the country- Eric asked me what are those for?!  ha!  so i finally sat down and made the pins for the word cards and the kids, especially Evie Joy loves practicing finding the letters and matching them to the correct cards and teaching her animals- here she is teaching Panda!

 We learned how to measure a cup, pint, quart and gallon with dirt! yup it was a fun dirty sweaty of a time!

learning how to say important things playing with a ball in Chinese!

learning Chinese by making roads, playing with cars and trains!

practicing my name on the big white board!

learning my letters!

with a little help from big brother!

love me some painting! 

 For Science, We learned how the liquid soap expands, wraps around the air we blow out our blow to make a bubble- the bubbles we see our pockets of air! 

 Our friend gave us this book called Never Board Kid Book 2 and EJ loves it...she has averaged completing 5 pages/day this week!

And here...this is not school...Josiah and I were doing school and she was busy with cars!

Who would have thought- soccer in the ditch!

We didn't plan to play soccer in the ditch, but it ended up being a super great place for the kiddos to practice dribbling the soccer ball back and forth...it had built in bumpers like a bowling lane for beginners and so the ball didn't get kicked far off where huge holes, chickens, cars might be and other unnamed objects...they loved this! I hope we can do it more to give them the opportunity to really practice and get some good energy out.  Jo would run alongside EJ beside the ditch when it was her turn so he ran up and back about 20 times...She took breaks when it was his turn! :)