Edible Playdough & Letters A-D

Last night Jim had to work, so I was home with the kids and while we were playing downstairs, Kate told me she'd like to do her school. So we did it at 6:30 p.m. last night right after we reviewed our AWANA verses. :o)

Today we finished Unit 5 for both kids. It was nice to have a "normal" homeschool day today with no plans to go out at all after our crazy day yesterday.

Drew's Bible story was about the Israelites making a golden calf to worship instead of worshiping the our true GOD. Moses was very angry with the people and ground the gold into powder and made the people drink it in water. UGH! Drew's artistic activity today was to use edible playdough to make a "golden calf" and then eat it...although I assured him we weren't going to worship this calf.
Drew hard at work making his calf...
Drew's completed golden calf...

Kate participated in only EATING the playdough, which is why I don't have any pictures of her "calf." :o) (She also wore her princess dress again all morning.)

Drew began chapter 6 in his math book - counting to 100 by ones & tens. For his page today, he had to write 0-100 which took him 20 minutes! When I checked his work, I found only 5 numbers mixed up - probably because he was distracted - but the rest were all correct. At the bottom of the page, he had to count by 10's and write them vertically and horizontally and he did it all correctly. I think we'll be done with this chapter by Friday. I've got to get to something that stumps him! Ha!

For Phonics, he read Inside, Outside, Upside Down all by himself (book #4 for October). When Kate heard him reading she left what she was playing with and came over to listen. I love it! Drew also read through an entire page in Phonics Pathways. He learned about "a" coming before words that begin with a consonant and "an" coming before words that begin with a vowel.

We read the second to last chapter in Reddy Fox which began..."Hardy had jolly, round, red Mr. Sun thrown off his nightcap and come out from his home behind the Purple Hills for his daily climb up in the blue, blue sky..." I stopped reading and asked Drew what I read about. He thought for a minute and didn't answer so I read it again and gave him a hint...the sun...then his eyes lit up and he thought it was a neat description of a sunrise (and I did, too).

We also discovered the word "quarrelling" and talked about it's meaning. I'm sure I'll hear him use in another day or so whenever he and Kate argue about something. :o) I really like this book and look forward to reading more throughout the year by the same author, Thornton Burgess.

The final activity Drew completed was another Thinking Skills page. He had to color 4 shapes 4 different colors and then count each and write the correct number in the blank at the bottom of the page. I had him read the directions by himself while I listened and then left him to complete it on his own. When I returned, he had it done everything correctly. Hooray! The book is working!

Kate's Bible story was about Joseph obeying the people in charge of him and telling the truth which pleased God and allowed God to have Joseph in charge of other people. She acted out obeying instructions like "putting toys away" and "closing doors softly" and then she had to shake her head "yes" or "no" to statements I made (telling the truth). The first one in the book was "Your hair is red."

Kate wrote each of her 4 letters that she's learned in the past 4 units on one of our small marker boards. She did a great job, other than the "D" looking like an "O"... (It's nice that she's going to be right-handed.)




Kate did her rhyme for Unit 5 and I caught just the beginning of it until the camera shut off. She's doing the motions for each of the sounds just in case you wonder (A - hands to cheek like a scream, B - arms folded rock boat, C- pat legs, D- hold reigns of camel). :o)

We learned about A-A-Adam,
And B-B-Boat,
and C-C-Clippety Clop,
and D-D-Dusty Camel..."