Wednesday Fun!

This pic shows how our school day on Wednesday began...K wearing her "foo foo" dress-up shoes "to school" and D looking tough in the picture (he was really in a good mood). I laughed so hard when I came downstairs after putting C down for her nap and found K walking around in the shoes. Only in "fun school" can we dress like this! :o)


K was delighted we were finally making a "B" out of tape on the floor. (The curves of the letter challenged my masking tape skills!) She covered the "B" in blocks and every time she put down a block she was to say the "B" sound.

D didn't want to be left out of the fun...he gave her a little bit of help but then I made him stop as he was laying 3 blocks for every 1 block K put down. :o)
The completed B looks good!
One of her other projects for her school day was a rainbow made out of torn paper. She will tell you it is God's Promise not to flood the whole earth again! I helped her make the semi-circles of glue on the paper for each color, but she tore and put down a lot of the paper herself. She didn't like getting glue on her fingers (what a girlie-girl). :o) K also had to act out the Bible story - she was pretending to be coming out of the ark, giving thanks to God and pointing to the rainbow in the sky. She LOVED this! The camera battery was dying or I would have taken a video of it. She's too cute!

We did her "B" rhyme again which we have done every day of Unit 2 and it begins like this...

Two big bears got on the boat (hold 2 fingers up)
the rains came down (flutter fingers down)
and the boat did float (flutter fingers side to side)
B - B- B (hug yourself & sway as if on boat)

She loves the rhymes and often wants to do her "A-A-Adam" rhyme from Unit 1. :o)

D chose to begin his school day with the science activity - he associates the icons in the curriculum guide with FUN! Knowing which symbols mean "activities" and "projects" as opposed to just phonics or the rhyme (which is one of his least favorites...though it's growing on him a little, I think!).

Anyway, his for science we were talking about measurements and then made foil boats (like the ark) and piled them with kidney beans to see how many would fit in the boat before it sunk. Unlike Noah's Ark which God designed to float even filled with animals. :o) D LOVED this and went right to work making his foil boat while I made one, too.



We then put them into the tub of water (his is on the right, mine is on the left).
And D began filling both boats with dry kidney beans (we were supposed to use math counters or pennies, but I had the beans from K's letter "A" the other week so we just used them instead and they worked!).
His boat was getting more full, but then it began taking on water and soon filled completely with water.

Poor guy, I thought he was going to cry for a minute, but he didn't. I assured him it was okay and he decided to then dump the beans into the water.He continued piling beans into my boat which then began leaning to the left and finally tipped over when the beans were at the very top edge of the foil...I think we'll try this again so he can build a leak-proof boat. I showed him after each boat sunk, that when he crumpled his foil on the sides he left a hole near the bottom and that's where the water leaked through causing his boat to sink. He understood.

We went through the rest of his school day and one of his last projects was coloring this picture of Reddy Fox (I attempted to draw the fox from the book cover for him). After coloring he filled in the blanks which said "D" and "walk" since he can walk but Reddy Fox can't right now (in the story Reddy Fox is careless & gets hurt). We then placed a bandaid on his leg in the picture. This was a cause of small fit for D.

He did NOT want a bandaid placed on his picture, but this was the directions in the curriculum guide and so I said that we needed to follow the directions. As I was talking with J last night, I told him that I struggle sometimes with what I should do in this situation. In a "real" school he would HAVE to follow directions exactly. I always go back and forth about this - here at home, it's not a big deal if the bandaid was left off the picture, but the concept of following directions to complete the project is important to me.

Here's little "teacher's helper" erasing the board after we were finished with school on Wednesday. After I took the picture she asked me to hold her up so she could erase the rest of the board. :o)