When I was getting out K's "new" letter flashcard for the week she was so excited to see what it was you would have thought I was giving her candy! ;o) As soon as she saw it, she guessed "B" - I didn't realize she could already recognize this letter. When I asked her what sound it makes she said "Ssss" - so I quickly corrected her with "Bbbb" and then she went and found "B" on our handwriting alphabet poster before I even asked her to do it. It amazed me that she remembered doing this with "A" last Wednesday because we only did it once.
She added a new page to her counting book today for #2. She cut out one hand from a magazine and we traced her hand and then she cut out the circle around it. She LOVES using the scissors but I have to help her a lot with them right now so her hair and my hair doesn't get cut accidentally! ;o)
We said a new rhyme/fingerplay about letter "B" and Noah which is one of her Bible stories this week. She learned how Noah obeyed God and built the ark. We also read a little devotional story about Behaving and briefly talked how she can obey & behave at home. I'm trying to make it apply to her each day.
Tonight at dinner she was disobeying - her fingers were covered with applesauce and she was "painting" all over her plate after both J and I had asked her to use her spoon to finish her applesauce. When I looked at her with a sad face and said, "Did you disobey?" She immediately began sobbing and kept saying, "I'm so sorry I disobeyed" through her tears. I think we saw this because of what we have been talking about in school almost daily with Adam & Eve this past week - obedience/disobedience!
When her 30 minutes of school was done she begged me to do more and make the tape letter "B" on the floor. I assured her we would do that in a few days. I love that she is enjoying her "preschool" time. :o)
D began his day after K and didn't complain about doing work...I guess after a week he's more comfortable & settled with the routine of school in the AM. He sat down and asked what activity he was going to do today. Hooray - he's actually excited about doing school!
I tried to keep K busy with a computer game while D & I worked at the table. The headphones are adult-sized and so they are constantly coming off her head. I've been making her wear a hat with the headphones over top so they don't slide as much. It works and today I finally remembered to take a picture of her...she's so stylish playing games!
D opted to do his Thinking Skills page first which was to follow directions to make a truck on his paper. The last direction was to think of a name for the truck and write it in the large rectangle. D did not want to do this because he couldn't decide on a name so he just wrote "truck" in the rectangle. It wasn't a big deal to me, but the whole point of thinking skills is to follow directions and so since that was the final direction on his paper I had him follow it. I also have him write his name on the top of several of his papers and explain that kids that GO to school have to do it so we do it at home for practice.
For math he cruised through another page in chapter two...in the pic below he is building his number on "Decimal Street" by placing the tens in their "house" on the street. He loves making his numbers this way and it's a good way to see place value. He thinks it's fun that he knows the "real" names of 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 (one-ty one, one-ty two, etc.) It actually makes more sense than the nicknames 11, 12, 13, 14... It's something this curriculum does to help the kids learn that "one-ty one" is one 10 and one 1 when they're building it on the "Decimal Street".
Here's a picture of his Phonics story for today - it was part 2 (continued from his story yesterday). He enjoyed this story because it was about a horse & car (one of his favorite things to build/play with) and the story had a little humor in it, too. I'm so proud of his reading & recall ability! Maybe one of these days I'll get a video of his reading (with his permission, of course)!
I really love the focus on the Bible - we had a chance to discuss his new memory verse for the week Ephesians 6:1 (Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right) which he already knows thanks to our "Hide'em in Your Heart" CD. He told me that he has to obey Daddy and me and that we have to obey God. We then talked about Adam & Eve's disobedience again. His unit is a little behind K's Bible stories, but repeating them and talking about them a lot gives them a chance to really know them and understand the basics. D really wanted to add another picture to our timeline, but since we added "The Fall" yesterday there wasn't a new picture to add today. I LOVE to see him get so excited learning the Bible. I pray his heart for spiritual things continues to grow.
Two weeks ago, D said he wanted to look up a Bible verse that he heard after listening to one of his Adventures in Odyssey CDs but that he didn't have a Bible to use. I felt bad we hadn't given him his own full-size Bible yet. We decided we'd get one for him for his birthday. I ordered one last week from Scripture Truth (great Bible selection at great prices & low shipping!) and I'm so excited for it to arrive. I'm really hoping the USPS doesn't lose it! I may let him open it early so we can use it for school as soon as it arrives!
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