Getting Ready for SUMMER!!

I'm so excited for the summer! (Kindof...)
We are having a theme summer. "Doing Great Things"

We're starting with a unit on Creation "God Makes Great Things", then we're talking about some Old Testament prophets with a unity on "Men and Women Can do Great things with God's Help." I'm really excited about our unit on America (this July) "God Created a Great Land" and we're ending with a study of inventors with a unit "Many Men and Women Invented Great Things That Changed the World."

Ok, so I have to tell you some of the cool things we're doing. I just got in the mail a DVD set that my sister-in-law, Rebekah, told me about... It's a double collection of 10 DVDs- The Blue Earth (all about the ocean) and The Planet Earth (about the land). Normally each DVD is $20, but the whole set only cost me $45 on Amazon. (I almost bought the set at the bookstore for $90). The DVDs have a temple feel and are so beautiful. Already we watched the first one and I'm SO EXCITED!!

PUSH THIS LINK AND YOU CAN SEE A PREVIEW OF IT!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mLPZ40PL7GYCG:m3UIHP0352HUDZ

Planet Earth & The Blue Planet Seas of Life (Special Collector's Edition) by David Attenborough (DVD - Oct 2, 2007)
Buy new: $119.98 $85.99
56 Used & new from $46.82

And, we also ordered tadpoles by mail. I'm so excited! Try http://www.growafrog.com/ we ordered the tadventures kit for $25 on sale for mother's day. I think we'll get 3 little tadpoles that will grow into swimming dwarf frogs by the end of the summer. Someday we'll add them to an aquarium.

And, the boys are really excited to finally grow our crystal kit that we've been saving.

Tomorrow I'm going to the library to check out 20 books that I found in the online catalog about creation. We're going to talk about different religion and culture's ideas about creation.

I can't stand the thought of cleaning the house, doing laundry and fixing 3 meals a day being pregnant with 5 kids at home... I have to think of fun things to do or I'll go crazy. Hopefully, my kids will only remember these fun things and not the fact that they will be eating cereal for breakfast lunch and dinner the next few months. (It's fortified.)