Finishing Unit 7

The past 3 days we finished up Unit 7 for both D&K...

On Monday we had school in the dining room for something different.  K painted letter "F" which she knows says "f-f-f" and has remembered it every day.  Hooray!   I was working with D while she painted and when I looked over I realized she was not only painting letter "F" but the entire paper.  She definitely had a good time with the watercolor paints!


D's Bible story was about Ruth & Naomi on Monday and so we talked about plants & seeds, but especially barley and how it grows for Science.  It was nice to be near my computer with internet access (the kid's computer downstairs does not have it) so we could look up a picture of the barley for D to draw.  D doesn't look happy in the picture, but honestly he was proud to show off his work I just snapped the picture before he smiled. :o)
He began with the grass (labeled 1) and then the barley (labeled 2) and then products that come from barley (labeled 3) like bread (looks like "Swiss Cheese" on the right side of his picture) and cereal.  He learned a lot because on Tuesday, he was drawing just for fun and drew a silo with a picture of a barley plant on the side of it.  That picture is amazing .  :o)

D's created a "tapestry" on Tuesday to go with his Bible story about Samuel in the temple.  He had fun arranging the colored paper squares on the yellow background.  K really wanted to do it too, especially the cutting of the squares, but I chose to work with her on her number 7 paper.  She had to cut out 7 shoes, so we found 3 pairs and a single shoe from some magazines.  She did a great job cutting on her own again and gluing on her own (as you can tell from the upside down pairs of shoes :o).

Today we completed Unit 7 with K learning about Moses, Pharaoh and the first plague - God turned water to blood.  She enjoyed playing in a tub of warm soapy water for about an hour.  It was nice to have her occupied with this activity (D played just a few minutes when I took the picture) so I could spend more time with D while C took her morning nap.

After D was done with his school work, we took the tub upstairs and used red food coloring to turn it red.  I had to get a white mug out and show them the water did turn red as in the blue tub it didn't look so red. ;o)  I also assured them God just turned the water automatically - He didn't use food coloring like Mommy. 

D's Bible story today was about the Ark of the covenant being moved by the enemies of the Israelites and causing the enemy idol to fall down.  He acted out the story using a yellow gear (pretend gold ark) in an empty puzzle box (cart), pushed on the floor to the "idol" (pretend syrup bottle from K's kitchen).  He decided to do this activity last today.  It's funny because the past month he's always opted to do the Bible story & fun activities first and now he does everything else first and then does something "fun" last. 




For math so far this week, D completed the chapter 7 test and began chapter 8 where he's now "solving for the unknown" which will tie in with subtraction soon.  He loves figuring out the problems because they're all like this...  ? + 2 = 6   He was actually puzzled a bit on Tuesday when we began Chapter 8 and had a problem that used 0 like ? + 5 = 5.  I thought, FINALLY!  It takes us 8 chapters in MUS's Alpha book to finally puzzle him just a bit.   Though today he had a similar problem and it didn't puzzle him at all.  He's just going to be good at math (and science)...with a mommy as a teacher who's least favorite subjects in school were always math & science!  :o)

In Phonics, D read the first chapter of The Magic Treehouse #1 book.  And today he read a small chapter book called Dog Detective that's from a Hooked on Phonics set a friend gave me.  We reviewed the c, k, and ck sounds in Phonics Pathways and will move on to another "rule" tomorrow.  I really like this book because it's also teaching him to spell as we go, too.  Though he dislikes the writing part.  :o)