The school area became a bit messy over the weekend. The table became my scrapbook area where I worked on some pages into Friday night and a few things Monday afternoon. The floor had various toys scattered around including K's new hopscotch set. We had to do a quick clean-up this morning before beginning another week of school.
K was on Unit 2/Day 3 and it was the story of Noah and the Ark - with an emphasis today on the ark floating when it rained for 40 days/40 nights. Her main activity today was discovering what objects sink & float. I filled a blue dish tub with water and collected a few small objects the curriculum suggested. K predicted sink/float before setting each in the water, then she dried them off and placed them under the appropriate heading on the masking tape chart on the carpet. When we were done with the suggested objects, she wanted to keep trying things so I let her pull a few toys from the room that were waterproof! ;o)
The process...
Popsicle stick...floats!
Plastic tea cup - floats!
The outcome...(the cotton ball and the rubber band sunk)
K begged to do her A-A-Adam rhyme from last week, so we did it and then went on to this week's rhyme for "B-B-B - the boat did float". She had another page to circle the "Bb's" on the paper and trace lines from B to b. She also did the counting paper where we drew one raindrop in each of the 5 boxes then she counted with me as I wrote the numbers 1-5 under each of her raindrops.
D chose to begin his school day with an art activity based on his history/Bible lesson for the day: Cain & Abel. He colored a quarter sheet of white paper with crayons using a lot of pressure to make the colors bold. He then colored over the bright colors with a thick layer of black crayon. I gave him a wooden skewer to etch a heart out - he decided to etch layers of multiple hearts. While he was working I read aloud the Bible story & history text about Cain & Abel. We then talked about having a right heart since good behavior & speech comes out of a heart that's right, unlike Cain's heart that was not right (angry) and he then murdered his brother.
1st layer - bright colors
etching the hearts
He quickly completed his thinking skills paper which was following left/right directions to get a little girl across the town and to her home. I thought he'd have trouble with left/right since it was on paper but he didn't!
He began chapter 3 in his math curriculum this afternoon. It was "easy" as he's learning the colors of the blocks and that the yellow one (4) represents 4 units. The curriculum uses the blocks in addition & subtraction the rest of the school year so he needs to learn the colors now. We played a game where he placed the blocks certain places and then had to count from 1-10 and collect them as he went. He's learning the colors and we nicknamed the 8 block "ChocoEight" since it's dark brown like a Hershey's bar! Mmmm!
He breezed through Lesson 85 in his Phonics book - reading the 2nd part of the Singing Bug story. In the first part the girl gave the bug a piece of cake to keep him from singing. In the second part of the story, the bug began to yell and so she gave him another piece of cake to keep him from yelling. Eventually, he was sick from eating lots of cake so he couldn't yell or sing and this made the girl happy so she ate her piece of cake in silence...finally. It's a silly story, but D enjoyed it and read it very well!
We're continuing to read through Reddy Fox - cute little story with manners and character lessons woven through it. D really enjoys listening and begs for "just one more chapter" each day but I always tell him it's for the next day. Otherwise, I think we'd read through the entire book in a day! I love that he enjoys to be read to! Today's chapter was about Reddy Fox not telling his Granny Fox the entire truth about what really happened to him in the woods.
When we were finished with schoolwork, I said, "That's all!" He looked at me and said, "Are you serious? I'm done!" I love it! ;o)
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