No pics today, sorry! The kids completed Unit 6/Day 2.
They played "Joseph, May I" for one of Kate's activities since her Bible story was about Pharaoh making Joseph in charge of Egypt during the years of abundance & famine. Obedience was the theme and so they had to obey what "Joseph" said whether it be "yes" or "no" after they initially asked Joseph what kind/how many steps they could take towards him. I began as Joseph, then Drew and then Kate...she was cute, she said yes to everything!
Drew's Bible story was about Balaam's donkey speaking and so we used a pretend sword and had Drew and Kate be the donkeys and be doing a certain motion but when I (pretending to be the angel) raised the sword they had to stop and speak like Balaam's donkey did.
Drew had fun listening to the first chapter of Peter Cottontail today. It was all about Peter Rabbit wanting to change his name when Jimmy Skunk assures him that it's foolish to change his name because what you do is what really makes your name.
Kate knew her letter "E" and could make the "E-E-E" sound in her rhyme which talks about the famine in Egypt. She completed the Hide'n'Seek letter page completely on her own - she found all the upper/lowercase "E's" and then drew lines connecting the "E"to the "e." She also Drew 5 rings in her "Count on me" page while Drew wrote the numbers underneath each while Kate counted. It's fun to be in a routine now - she knows what's coming in each unit as far as a new letter, rhyme and Bible stories but the paper she completes are very similar.
Drew read through The Carrot Seed today for his 6th book. He had a few words he had to sound out but otherwise he read perfectly. I tied his handwriting paper into his "c" and "k" combinations/words from Phonics Pathways so he wrote each combination "ca, ke, ki, co and cu" and then I let him choose which word he wanted to write for each combination. He did well. I even let him do it in marker today just for something different.
The last subject of the day was math for Drew and up until this point the morning had gone well. I had him write his numbers 0-100 (remember I let him skip it yesterday and he had done it almost perfectly on Tuesday) since that was on the review page for the day.. It took him over 30 minutes to write from 0-30...not because he's slow but because he was watching Kate play the computer game, interacting with Claire and just not focusing on his work. I finally took the girls upstairs and left Drew downstairs which resulted in him getting upset and crying. At 12:30 p.m. when Jim called (an hour after Drew began his math paper) he talked with Drew and finally Drew finished his paper 1 1/2 hours after he started it. Goodness.
I decided I'm going to delay the test on chapter 6 until Monday and I think we'll do something else for math tomorrow. My parents will be here for the day and I don't want him spending HOURS writing 0-100 again. :oS
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