Mary's Birthday

I posted this on Facebook yesterday on Mary's birthday. 

Mary turned 9 today! I feel so happy to be her mom and see her grow. She is truly a gift from God. She has grown so much height wise and being her own person. Mary you are such a help to your folks, clearing the table, making your bed, running and getting things for us, working out in the garden, and learning how to make things. It is so fun doing crafts with you and most of all playing the piano together, making music in our hearts. You are already a great little song writer. Your teacher was so pleased with your Cricket Song and she is teaching you chords to help you write more music. Most of all I love to see you blossom with your walk with the Lord and how excited you were to get your first Bible and I look forward to reading it with you each night. What a precious girl you are to both of us and you make us so very happy!

 

We had a great day of celebrating.  She picked Roadhouse Grill for her birthday dinner.  It was so cute they brought her a coffee filter hat and a ice cream Sunday for dessert and sang Happy Birthday to her.  She got such a kick out of it.  She got some really nice phone calls and lots of lovely cards and gifts in the mail.  So hard to believe at times that our little girl is 9 years old now.

School Work

This is the Fall bulletin board we put together for the school room.

 

We studied George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  We had fun with a flag painting day.  She also made a construction paper head of Washington.  We studies about the founding of our country and the Revolutionary War.

 

We also studied about Johnny Apple Seed.  We learned about who he really was and got poems, stories and songs about him.  Mary wrote a story about him.  Lots of fun!

We also baked an apple pie in his honor.  Mary helped with most of it.

Another snack learning event was making Abraham Lincoln's cabin out of gram crackers, pretzels and wheat thins.  We used peanut butter to cement it all together.

Mary made a construction paper head of Lincoln and learned that is hat served as a brief case for his important papers.  She learned about the Civil War and about Lincoln's life.

This came out wrong and I can't turn the next 2 but they are illustrations Mary did for her 2 stories she wrote about Huck Finn and Johnny Appleseed.  The expression she used in them cracked me up.

The last 2 weeks we have been doing some writing prompts on pumpkins and we have done several craft projects involving pumpkins.  She has been reading some Fall poems.

We made some origami pumpkins and they were enjoyed by all!

Here is poem that Mary wrote about a pumpkin.  I thought it was really good for her age.