Enjoying the Chaos

FOUR GOSPELS. FOUR FILMS. ONE JESUS STORY. FOR EVERYONE. I recently had the opportunity to watch a really unique project.  The Lumo Project  taken straight from The Gospel of John. A ground breaking, multi-language biblical film resource transforming the way we discover, study and engage with the life of Jesus through the four New Testament Gospels. The Lumo Project is a ground breaking, multi-language biblical film resource transforming the way we discover, study and engage with the life of Jesus through the four New Testament Gospels: redefining the standard of visual Biblical media.  The Lumo Project presents four films – one for each Gospel account – that will revolutionize the way we all experience the story of Jesus and the world of First Century Palestine in which he lived. I was able to choice between NIV, King James Version, or a Spanish version. I chose King James Version.   This full-length feature film about the life of Jesus takes the ...

I was sent a copy of  Katie's London Christmas   ($16.99)to read with Captain America. It is written by James Mayhew is a children's author and illustrator whose books include on of our favorites 'Can You See a Little Bear?' In 1994 he received the New York Times Award for one of the best illustrated books of the year for 'The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams'. Hubby read this Captain America first, he comment to me afterwards was that he loved all of the London sights as he was reading. Of course hubby and I are from England so this book with definitely have a place close to our hearts. The book starts out with Katie and her brother sleeping at Grandma's house on Christmas Eve. They are awakened by a sneeze and go downstairs to investigate. They walk in the living room to find Father Christmas putting presents under their Christmas Tree. They realize Father Christmas had a cold and offer to help. Father Christmas accepts their offer and they go of on hi...

Happy Thanksgiving!!! 1. I had a great Thanksgiving. Last year it was just the five of us. This year although we weren't all together there was at least a few more of us gathered at my parents house. 2. Captain America had his first piano lesson last week and has been doing really well practicing his musical alphabet. He has it down now and really looking forward to his next lesson! 3. We have finished the changes in the basement and the kids new school area is back up and running. I will do a post on it soon. However, it is great to have our space back upstairs. We now have a reading/piano room. It's so nice Captain America keeps his library books in a basket next to the chair. He can often be found curled up on the chair. 4. My husband loves hot turkey sandwiches. In fact I think he likes them almost as much as Thanksgiving dinner. 5. The weather was amazing today. Hubby took the chance to put up our outside Christmas lights. We always put up our tree the...

We have been swimming for about 18 months and this we winter starting competing in USA Swimming events. The kids love it and for all three of them it's great exercise. All three kids swim four days a week. Jam and Boo of course swim a lot more than Captain America who is the youngest on the swim team (and has a lot of cute factor). We always love to try new things and so when I was given the chance to try a new line of goggles I thought it sounded a good opportunity. So we were sent a pair of  GoggIX  $19.22 (free shipping with Amazon Prime). When we started swimming we had a certain brand recommended to us and we have been happy with them. However, we recently tried a new kind of goggles for Captain American because of his prescription needs. But we are always willing to try new things. Jam shouted the loudest and asked him he could try them out at swim practice. It worked out really well as it was time trials last night. Once a month the kids run through all of their...

  The Old Schoolhouse is hosting a cool giveaway and I agreed to share it with all of you today. The company  Blue Orange Games is giving away some really cool Disney games. As you can see in the above picture there are some really good one's there. Toy Story is a favorite in my house and I know a lot of little girls that LOVE frozen. These will be a huge hit on Christmas morning in one lucky winners house! There are also some really cool free apps that you can find on the link. However they are all from the apple store and I have android so I wanted to share some free android apps. A friend of mine introduced me Frozen Free Fall, for those of you that like Candy Crush she tells me its a lot better - I haven't had chance to try it yet! I know Captain America will like it.   Disney Hidden Worlds      Frozen Free Fall Click here to enter the giveaway - GOOD LUCK!!! ©2011-2014 Chickensbunniesandhomeschool. All rights reserved. All text, photogra...

We have been homeschooling for about three years. When my older two children learned to read they were in public school and so I helped but never had to teach them all by myself. Captain America however has been all me, having never gone to public school at all (in fact this year would have seen him in Kindergarten) the buck stops here, so to speak. I have been collecting level one and two readers. So when I was offered a copy of  I Can Read - God's Great Creation . Although this book is a level two, Captain America did an excellent job reading it. I only had to assist him with the hard words. This books tells the story of the creation. It goes through all the days of creation and ends up with Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and being cast out from the Garden of Eden. Captain America really enjoyed the story, it's told in quite simplistic vocabulary, which is suitable for level 2. There are a couple of parts in the story that don't quite fit in with my King...

We recently received a copy of  Surprise at Yorktown  by The Imagination Station. Captain America was really excited to see another on of these books. He really loved the other one we read in the series. I like that they combined a children adventure book with historical facts and information. This time the cousins Beth and Patrick go on an adventure to help George Washington. This couldn't have come at a more perfect time. Captain America is starting to memorize a poem about George Washington. He loves it when he can learn about the same subject in different ways, and a story book is perfect.  Captain America loves that the characters travel through time and help out where ever needed. This little book is full of adventure and excitement. Definitely got two thumbs up at our house! Although I read this to Captain America this time round, it will have a place on our bookcase because I will definitely encourage him to read it again by himself in a year or t...