Defeating Goliath & Passover

K was dressed as a ballerina today for school.  She wore this tutu the entire morning, complete with the slippers, except for when she had a potty break.  Now she can costume herself which is nice.

For the first few units, K and D's Bible stories were the same, but then K's slowed down and D's kept going so they are now years apart from each other in the Bible.  However, it's nice review for D to hear K's lessons each day.   He often tells the story to K before I can read it to her. :o)

D studied the story of David & Goliath today.  His activity after the reading was to throw "stones" at Goliath.  We had to place Goliath 9 feet from the floor since he was really tall!  Since we were in the basement, it meant that Goliath had to be in the stairway wall because the ceiling of the playroom is short.  :o)  The kids didn't mind.  D threw the "stones" (beanbags) and finally cracked his face.  K wanted to be a part of the action, so she took a break from playing on the computer and climbed the steps to help her reach his face.

K learned about the last plague and Passover today.  For her "Count On" paper she drew 5 doors with doorknobs and then went back and colored blood on the sides and tops of the doors (what the Israelites where to do so their firstborn would live).  D wrote the numbers as K counted.

She also learned her "new" letter today: "G" which we related to "G-G-ma" (what she calls my grandma) to help her remember the name of it.  She also learned a new rhyme which she LOVES.

For math, D completed the third page of chapter 8.  He asked when he would be done with the chapter and I told him we'll finish on Monday with the test and then go on to chapter 9 on Tuesday.  He just can't get enough of it!  That's a good thing!  :o)  Here's his paper from today...notice the erased zero at the top?  His first zero was a swirl so I erased it and asked him to make it a true "zero" so he made a HUGE one, I erased that one and asked him to make it the right size.  He did.  It was one of those times where "here's the line &  let's see how close we can come to crossing it and truly testing Mommy today."  Grrrr.  I kept my cool and he did what I asked or else there would have been consequences.

For Phonics, he read through 2 pages of Pathways which were all about reading & sounding out four-letter words.  A review for him, but I still had him do it.  You can't ever read too much!  He then went on to read chapter 2 of The Magic Treehouse #1 book.  He read "everywhere" and "Pennsylvania" without any help from me.  Yippee!  I assured him that the more he reads, the more words he will be able to read the "fast way" (without stopping to sound them out).  He's happy.   Since the chapters in the book are several pages (many without pictures), I'm counting each chapter as a "book" for his Book-It list.

D's rhyme was actually a song that was sung to the tune of "The Little Green Frog" which I had the music for, so we all sat down at the keyboard to sing his rhyme.  I am so happy that he enjoys this part of his school day.  For the first few weeks he complained about it.  Now he chooses to do it and will often participate in K's rhymes, too.

The weather is sunny and 68 this afternoon so as soon as C's up, we're headed outside to play and take a walk for our "P.E." for today.  Oh, I wish it would last a few more weeks, but I know the cold & rain is coming this weekend. ;o(