We began Unit 7 today so K learned a new letter..."F" and the motions that go with the sound are all 10 fingers waving like a flame (since we'll talk about the burning bush during this unit). She also learned a new fingerplay about Moses.
Today's Bible story was about the Israelites being slaves in Egypt. She had to act out making bricks which were a lot of directions to follow but she did well.
Then she drew 5 bricks (1 in each box) for her counting paper. When she was done D wrote the numbers as she counted to 5. I like seeing them work together.
After she was done her "school" as she calls it, she headed for the computer and played Dr. Seuss for awhile. The game has a lot of fun letter & number activities and it's fun because I can click on "progress" to see how she's doing on every activity since I'm not always right there watching what she's getting right/wrong. We switched headphones with another pair D had which fit her head a lot better, so she no longer has to wear a hat and then the headphones to keep them in place.
One of D's activities that went with his Bible story was to knock down idols (we read about the Israelites disobeying God & worshiping idols). He used the cardboard blocks to make idols and then knocked them down with beanbags. At first he just had 4 blocks upright then he became more elaborate and build a block tower since that was much more fun to knock down than just single blocks. I caught the blocks falling down in this picture...
I gave D the choice today of what math page to do - 7C or 7D and his choice was BOTH. I was surprised but won't say "no" to doing two pages in math. :o)
I thought this picture was cute...
His second page completed...he loves adding 10's and 100's even though there are only 2-3 problems like that on each page. He also enjoys story problems which I'm glad this curriculum has him doing every day since that is something that can often confuse kids.
D also read through A Kiss for Little Bear (his 10th book for the month!) and did really well learning a few new words like "decided, wedding, grandmother..." and more. In Phonics Pathways he reviewed the "k" sound is "ck" with a short vowel & one syllable word. He liked clapping out syllables yesterday & today as we talked about what a syllable is. I'm enjoying the Pathways book since it's not sorted by lesson so we really can go at our own pace and stay at a concept until he knows it.
We read another chapter of Peter Cottontail and it was about Reddy Fox which was fun. The past two chapters have been about playing tricks and so D and I have had some discussion about playing tricks & mischief. I like the discussions this book brings up - D is learning right/wrong from the characters, too.
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