K was wearing her "foo foo" shoes again this morning at the start of the school day. She finished out Unit 2 by tracing the flashcard "B" with her finger and then drawing "B's" (with a little help from me) using 2 crayons taped together. She enjoyed it! Later when D was working with me, K was drawing her chalkboard easel making lowercase "b's" all by herself and they were looking good!
Her Bible story today was about the Tower of Babel and so we used blocks to build a tower for her activiy, counting every block as she stacked it.
We counted together and she built by herself, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13...
Below she's adding #14 and right after I took the picture, the tower toppled over. She thought it was funny!
When we started to read the Bible story this morning, she wanted to go back and look through all the pictures in the book, so we did. The pictures in the book are really well done & colorful. She told me about Adam & Eve sinning, Cain & Abel, Noah obeying God and building the ark, the rainbow being God's promise...with D chiming in from the other side of the room where he was playing with more details than K knew. They are learning God's Word and it makes my heart happy! I hope they are always this excited about God's Word! :o)
D's Bible story this morning was also the Tower of Babel and for his activity he acted out building bricks and then saying "yes" in other languages after I would say "Put the brick here." He said "Ne" in Greek, "Aiwa" in Egyptian Arabic, "Da" in Romanian and "Ee" in Syrian Arabic. He told me his favorite "yes" was "Aiwa" because of how it sounded.
Right now his history book is corresponding with the Bible stories and so whenever we read the Bible story, we read the history book, too. Yesterday (I forgot to write this in the blog post below) he made a rainbow to add to his timeline on the wall and wanted me to do the writing. Today, he drew the Tower of Babel by himself and then had me label it (added after I took the picture). He loves adding events to the timeline and I am hoping this gives him a good foundation of history so we can plug in more details/events in the coming years (which is how the curriculum is planned).
D's rhyme for the unit wasn't his favorite activity to do, but I think it's beginning to grow on him. Hopefully it will as he has a rhyme/song for every unit in the curriculum. ;o) Today K asked if she could do it and D had "fun" teaching it to her.
He completed the 3rd page of Chapter 3 in his math book. After 3 days of learning the colors and numbers of the blocks, he is remembering them!
When we were using the Primer level off and on last year, we gave all of the blocks food/candy names for the 2-9 blocks: 2 is orange so we call it cheddar cheese
3 is pink so we call it bubble gum
4 is yellow so we call it mac'n'cheese
5 is light blue so we call it blue raspberry slushie
6 is purple so we call it grape jelly
7 is tan so we call it vanilla ice cream
8 is dark brown so we call it chocolate
9 is light green/teal so we call it mint chocolate chip
It's silly, but D remembers it. He'll move onto addition in Chapter 4 by the middle of next week. I know he's ready to be challenged a bit.
For thinking skills, D had to cut out a large rectangle and follow the directions to make a birthday card for someone...he chose daddy since his birthday is coming up. Shhh, don't tell him! :o) He dictated a message so I wrote it down on scrap paper and then D copied it into the card - it was sweet what he came up with on his own. He is still writing a lot of his letters in CAPS...we have to work on this, but today I didn't make it a big deal.
In Phonics, D finished reading a story about a dog that liked to dig holes and eventually dug a big hole and found gold in it. His fluency is improving as the stories progress especially since we are reading daily now. I LOVE to listen to him and so does K. She will often come to the table and sit on my lap while D reads. D is also aware of the " "'s when someone is supposed to be talking and when the word "yell" is in front of the " " D picks up on it and "yells" the words. I'm amazed at this because when I taught 2nd grade I constantly had to work on this with my students in reading groups. The 100 Easy Lessons book says the student will finish at a second grade level and I believe it! We're almost done...I figured we'll be at lesson 100 at the end of the month. Then the "real" book reading comes! Can't wait!
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