We did it!

We completed our first full week of homeschooling which included our first "official" field trip (see our other blog for zoo pics & stories).


C was happy this AM...took a nap for half the morning then was content to play in her pack'n'play for the remainder of the school time.

Today we did Unit 2, Day 2 for both D&K...

K finger-painted her letter of this unit...B! With her choice of paint...purple!
She had an activity to pretend to be a "buzzing bee" or a "galloping horse" or a "hopping kangaroo" getting on Noah's ark. It was fun to talk about these animals since we had seen most of them yesterday at the zoo! :o)

For part of our daily calendar time I have the kids count $. Today it was 3 cents and K counted 3 pennies all by herself!

D being a "tree" in the Garden of Eden (square taped on the floor) for his "thinking game" this morning (following directions & prepositional words).

D completing his math test for chapter 2 (we went quickly through this chapter as it was counting to 20). He's anxious to begin chapter 3 on Tuesday where he'll be using more than just 3 colors of blocks. In History, we read about "the curse" and then God's "promise" to finish out the second chapter. At one point D looked at me and said, "I'm so thankful God sent His Son to die on the cross for me because I believe it and I know I'm going to heaven someday." It made my heart smile! This was the highlight of my week!

To review his memory verse we rolled a ball between our legs - if we made it through we said the verse - sometimes all of it, sometimes a phrase or two or just the reference. After that we bounced the ball back and forth and said one word for each bounce. He LOVES these verse activities and I'm hoping he'll continue to like them as we do them with his Spark's verses soon!

He read a story about a singing bug in his 100 Lessons book today - it was another 2 part story (which are how the stories are until the end of the book I think...). He breezed through it and I love to listen to him read - he's trying to be more expressive when he sees the " " marks around words he knows the characters are speaking. I tried to sneak a video but he caught me and so I respected his "no video" statement today. I'll try another day though...

Now we're off for a 3-day weekend! Hooray!