"I want to play!"

...were D's words about 5 minutes into the school day this morning. I had gone upstairs to "rescue" C from her too-short nap and when I returned I found him hiding under the keyboard cover with his unfinished handwriting paper laying on the table. He had a talk on the phone with Daddy and it helped.

I purposely began later this morning to allow D more playtime before beginning our school day. I'm hoping his complaining is just because it's still "new" and once we get into the school routine after a few more days/weeks, he won't complain?

On the other hand, K LOVES to "play school" as she calls it. She used scissors for the first time today to begin making her counting book (#s 1-10) by cutting out a tree.

Another activity for her was to find the capital & lowercase A's in the beginning words of her rhyme. She was delighted that I let her use a MARKER! She found all the capital "A's" though her circles are a bit silly as 2 year old circles go. She needed a little help to find the lowercase "a's" but after helping her find a few, she found the last couple of "a's" on her own. Then she had to follow the line to help the capital "A" get to the lowercase "a" at the bottom of the page.
Her Bible story was about how Adam & Eve disobeyed God and had to leave the Garden of Eden. When I asked her what they did to leave the garden she said, "they punched each other." Ouch! That is disobeying! :o) I reminded her that Adam & Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit from the tree He told them not to touch, although punching someone is disobeying and makes God sad, too.

After the rough start, D had a good morning of school. He did complete his handwriting paper (review of E, F, G & H). I still have to sit with him and watch him form his letters but overall he did it correctly today.

D took his first math "test" today. I read the directions to him and then he completed it without any of my help. He did everything right! He's excited to move on to chapter 2 tomorrow.

D is learning the 7 continents as part of his history & silly song that's been in his 1st unit (the curriculum is broken down into units - each unit is 5 days). The song is to the tune of "Skip to my Lou" and it says "Leap, leap to North America (repeat 2more x)...God made deer leap there." Then it goes on to name all the other continents with different movements and animals for each one. I think this is the least favorite part of his curriculum, but it's helping him learn the names of the continents. The first day I showed him where each continent is on the globe (freebie from a garage sale!). Then everyday since he's been pointing them out and today he found most of them without my help!He LOVES Phonics and completed lesson 80 today. He read the second part of a story he began on Friday and the second time through the story K sat and listened to him read (and he let her!). He's doing well but I have to remind him to look at ALL the letters of the word before saying the word...the/that or was/were.

For science we read about God creating the animals and his activity was to jump from "water" (blue paper) to "land" (brown paper) when I called out an animal name to show me where that animal lives. He did well with a bunch of animals I called out and when I said "penguin" he stepped on the water and then made his foot touch his white math poster and told me that was "ICE" since penguins live where it's cold. :o) We're excited to go to the zoo on Thursday to see all these animals in-person!