Crown Him With Many Crowns

Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne.

Hark! How the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity.

Crown Him the virgin’s Son, the God incarnate born,
Whose arm those crimson trophies won which now His brow adorn;
Fruit of the mystic rose, as of that rose the stem;
The root whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem.

Crown Him the Son of God, before the worlds began,
And ye who tread where He hath trod, crown Him the Son of Man;
Who every grief hath known that wrings the human breast,
And takes and bears them for His own, that all in Him may rest.

Crown Him the Lord of life, who triumphed over the grave,
And rose victorious in the strife for those He came to save.
His glories now we sing, Who died, and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die.

Crown Him the Lord of peace, Whose power a scepter sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end, and round His piercèd feet
Fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.

Crown Him the Lord of love, behold His hands and side,
Those wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of Heaven, enthroned in worlds above,
Crown Him the King to Whom is given the wondrous name of Love.
Crown Him with many crowns, as thrones before Him fall;
Crown Him, ye kings, with many crowns, for He is King of all.

Crown Him the Lord of lords, who over all doth reign,
Who once on earth, the incarnate Word, for ransomed sinners slain,
Now lives in realms of light, where saints with angels sing
Their songs before Him day and night, their God, Redeemer, King.

Crown Him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time,
Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime.
All hail, Redeemer, hail! For Thou has died for me;
Thy praise and glory shall not fail throughout eternity.


I have included all the verses to this song, although I don't think most people sing all 9 verses.  This is a very good hymn and you can listen to it here.

Weekly Wrap Up! 8/22/11 - 8/26/11

This is our 4 week back to school.  We still aren't back to doing all subjects but I feel like we have a pretty good start. 

This week all the kids and I have been learning about How the Bible Came to Us.  Which has been pretty interesting so far.  We have gone over all the different books of the Bible and who wrote them.  Read an overview of the Old and New Testaments (these pages were pretty cool, the kids want to copy them and make it a board game out of them).

We have kept up with Keys for Kids and our memory verse this week.  Our verse this week is...
1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Computer Girl is playing with Little Bits while I was working with Alpha Boy and The Lil' Chef was doing hereindependent studies.

For history I have been using MFW - Rome to Reformation as a guideline but have still been tweaking it a bit.  We have been reading mostly from Mystery of History this week, we have read about the Punic Wars, Spartacus and Julius Caesar.  I also included What in the World by Diana Waring, we listened to the Punic Wars, Roman Republic and Julius Caesar (I am going to be reviewing this soon).

THe Lil' Chef is reading to the boys while I am working with Computer Girl.  You don't see alpha Boy because he is in the "tent" under the coffee table.

MFW has Augustus Caesar's World as a read a loud for the next 9 weeks (or so) but after looking at this book I have decided to shelf it.  I have to tell you, this book, well the decision whether to read it or not read it really stressed me out a little.  I guess because I am type a like that : )  As I previewed the book I just felt there was a little too much astrology and false gods for my taste.  I know that many people have read this book and loved it but for us and the ages of my kids I am passing.  At least for now. 

Just in case you wanted to see the "tent" and what my house can look like while we are schooling : )

To replace it we are reading Detectives in Toga's.  We are 4 or 5 chapters in so far and the kids are hooked.  There is a few things in this book that I could do with out also but I think for me it is easier to modify as I am reading.  It does mention astrology, which I know was very common in Rome and they stay stuff like dumbell and stupid.  I did read dumbell a few times because of the story but the other potty mouth words I just left out.

Alpha Boy working on his letters with Sing, Spell, Read and Write.

We did a few lessons in The Human Body for Every Kid.  My kids enjoyed doing a little "experiment" on cell membrane break through which involved a colander, pinto beans and salt.  This little project really made the idea click in their heads. 


Computer Girl with our experiment on cell membrane breakthrough.

I decided to add something to our year that I didn't plan on adding.  We have all 3 of the Apologia Zoology science books and haven't used them yet.  I know, shame, shame!  I am POSITIVE that my kids will love this, possibly more than anything else we are doing this year and that my friend is why I am adding it.  We are going to do it very s-l-o-w-l-y because technically we are already doing science.  This is really more for fun.



Computer Girl working on her grammar.  Not sure if she is not really happy to be doing grammar or if she is still half a sleep.

To keep track of all that they are learning they have a drawing or coloring page that they place in their history and science notebooks.  I would LOVE to include lapbooks for them but it seems that I always print out all this stuff and they are just not into it.  For some reason my kids are just not into lapbooks.  It really does baffle me, what kid doesn't like to color, cut and paste?!  
I am always looking for fun things to add to our schooling, so last year when I stumbled upon The Story Keepers videos I was on a mission.  The Story Keepers videos are animated historical fiction videos about Christians that lived in Rome around the time of Nero.  An excellent addition to the time period we are studying!  I found the whole set last year on eBay and tucked them away, until now.  The kids watched the first one and it was a hit. 
 
Oh, before I forget.  One more thing the kids and I did this week was experience an EARTHQUAKE!!  Holy Toledo that freaked me out!  I will share more about this experience tomorrow.  But I will say that the kids got a Bible, science and geography lesson out of it.

Alpha Boy worked in his Sing, Spell, Read and Write workbook, completing the letters T and U.  He also played online at Starfall.com, mostly with the letter games.  He continued in his Abeka Arithmetic K book as well as watched his Mathtacular video. 
 
Computer Girl and The Lil' Chef have both been reviewing the math facts that they seemed to have forgotten over the summer (note to self remember to least keep up math facts a few times a week next summer and ACTUALLY DO IT!)  They have both been working on their spelling lists, Easy Grammar books, memorizing prepositions and their personal reading. 
 
Little Bits has been mostly playing near by or with one of the girls when I am working with someone else.  I read an article yesterday that reminded me of the idea to work with the todler first before everyone else.  This way the don't feel pushed to the side but they have had their one on one time like everyone else. I am going to start that next week.  I am going to do like 20 minutes of "school time" with him before I start with the other kids.  I am also shooting for a reading time with just the boys before lunch, the girls of course are welcome to listen but the reading will be directed to the boys level. 
 
Even though we are schooling I am not as structured as I plan to be next month.  I am still trying to leave a little wiggle room for stuff.  Like this morning, I took the kids to the library.  The girls browsed for books and read while the boys and I went into a reading time for kids ages 3-5.  The boys really enjoyed it and I plan to include it into our schedule at least once or twice a month. 
 
We usually don't school on Fridays, which amy be changing, {gasp} so today we plan on cleaning, catching up on laundry and baking. 

Are you back to school yet?  If so you can link up with Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers too!

 

2011- 2012 TOS Crew Blog Hop

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Go ahead and hop around, lots of great homeschool blogs to be found....

Menu Plan 8/24/11

I know it's not Monday.  But I figured my crew might not be so happy if I waitied until next Monday to make a list and buy food.  Just sayin'!

I have recently tried to start shopping for two weeks at a time, at least for lunch and dinners.  I know that fresh fruit and veggies is usually a weekly thing, but some of the other stuff I can get away with doing once every two weeks.

I used to do this back in the day and I am not quite sure why I stopped.  I know that grocery shopping is a necessity and I am thankful to be able to shop BUT if I can reduce the amount of trips too the grocery store, I am ALL FOR IT!

I also typed up my list a little different this week.  So here goes...

Breakfasts
• JUICE, JUICE, JUICE!!! (*Because I have gotten too FAT, FAT, FAT and I need to reduce my calorie intake to help lose some poundage : )
• Waffles
• Pancakes
• Smoothies & Bagels
• Cereal
• French Toast
• Fruit & Yogurt
• Eggs and Toast
• Muffins & Fruit

Lunches
• SALAD, SALAD, SALAD!!! - (*see above) 
• Chicken Nuggets
• Egg Salad Sandwiches
• Ham or Turkey Sandwiches
• PB& J’s
• Mac & Cheese
• Grilled Cheese
• Quesadillas
• Hot Dogs & Fries

Dinners
• Beef Stroganoff w/ Green Beans
• Chicken Burritos w/ Corn and Cantaloupe
• Shepherd’s Pie
• Breakfast Night – Oven Scrambled Eggs, Bacon & Oven Pancake
• Pizza (2)
• Taco Soup (Dinner’s Ready! Page 132) w/ Corn & Chips
• Sweet & Sour Chicken (Dinner’s Ready! Page 144) w/ Rice
• Crockpot - Chili Macaroni & Cheese (More, Make it Fast and Cook it Slow Page 180)
• Crockpot - Lemon Pepper Chicken w/ Rice & Veggie
• BLT’s, Fruit and Chips
• Grilled Cheese, Tomato Soup & Broccoli
• Hot Dog Casserole

Things to Make This Week:
Granola, Bread, Blueberry Muffins, Rice Crispy Treats

Our New School Room {LINKY}

I have fallen in love.  The Hubs let me splurge a few months ago on these shelves from Ikea.  You see we have purchased several of the cheapy type bookcases that have been, well, duds.  When I would load them up with books, because there are bookcases, they break. 

I have been eye balling these Expedit Ikea shelves for a LONG TIME.  I had even been scoping out Craigslist looking for used ones but never found the right ones.  Finally, I asked The Hubs if we could just invest in these and not have to keep buying junkie ones.  He said YES!   I love how sturdy these shelves are, we can load these babies up and guess what,  they DON'T BREAK!  Can I get an AMEN!

Two other additions to the play/school room are the train table and the art center.  Both of which were acquired at Good Will one sunny afternoon.  My mother in law got both of them for the kids. 
We had a train table but the top was pretty jacked up, so when we saw this one for such a deal we scooped it up.  I think the train table was a whooping $10. 

The large plastic drawers make up our Art Center.  The chalkboard was given to us.  I know that it looks cheeeezzy leaning up again the table BUT I don't have anymore wall space because of all the windows and this spot is perfect for the little people. 
These shelves hold all our books plus any educational games that we have.

The art center was filled will all kinds of artsie stuff like scuplty clay, ribbon, buttons, ribbon, and oh yeah, more ribbon.  I think it was $10 or $15.  Not only does it keep the kids busy, it keeps them out of my craft stuff.  Thanks again Mom!!



This is the opposite site of our play/school room.  We use this side mostly for games and toy storage.

 We still have our workboxes, mostly to just house our school stuff.  They don't go thru all the workboxes everyday.   Little Bits got his very own workbox this year.  I actually like the 3 larger drawers because a lot of the stuff I have for him to do wouldn't fit in the Joann's 10 Drawer Cart. 

This is  the view of from our kitchen. 

If you want to see what our play/school room used to look like you can check it out here.

I love to look at other peoples playrooms and school room, it is a great way to get new ideas.  If anyone would like to Link Up their playrooms please do.