"...and the walls came tumbling down."

D's Bible story today was the Israelites crossing the Jordan River and the Battle of Jericho. He was able to build a tower with our cardboard blocks. K, D and I marched around it 7x, "blew a trumpet" and then shouted and D kicked the walls over to reenact the 7th day they walked around the city walls. Obviously, the day it actually happened God made the walls fall all on their own which D thought was really neat. :o)



He began chapter 7 in math today and was delighted to begin adding 10's and 100's. The chapter is about adding 2 and the 10's and 100's are thrown in for practice in place value. He had just two problems on his page (40+20 and 200+200) but was still excited about doing them. He also learned about odd/even numbers. We divided the Cheerios that were on the table for K's project...he discovered the even numbers can be divided evenly but the odd numbers cannot be divided evenly. He then told me that he already knew 9 was an odd number because that's how many marbles we have in the marble run set and K and him always dispute over who gets 5 and who gets 4. D read Home for a Bunny today and did really well - sounding out just a few words he hasn't read before. He also could identity what vowels go with "c" and "k" so we're moving on in Phonics Pathways tomorrow. Hooray!

I combined K's Days 3 & 4 of this unit together since we didn't do her activities last Friday. We read about Joseph and how he forgave his brothers. We also read the little devotional about letter "E" - God loves Everyone. She was dressed in her purple tutu for school today since the pink dress still needs to be repaired.

She also glued Cheerios to "E" since I didn't have any dry beans in the house. D wanted to join in on the fun and I thought he just wanted a morning snack of Cheerios - but he finished the project. :o)


K's "E" made all by herself...
Tomorrow afternoon is homeschool PE at a nearby YMCA - should be an adventure... but hopefully a fun one for the kids. :o)