stars, storytime & self-portrait

Today was K's day to glue something to her letter of the unit - G.  It was suggested to use cotton balls or yarn again, but I thought it would be fun to use paper stars because her Bible story today was about the Israelites leaving Egypt at night after the last plague.  I used our construction paper scraps and punched out stars (love my scrapbook punches - I'm always using them for something else) and had her glue them to black paper where I had drawn a large G.  She worked so diligently placing stars inside the letter.  She began at the inside part and worked her way all the way around to the top of the G.  I was impressed.

Here she is happy to have completed it! 

D's Bible story was about Saul trying to kill David.  We talked about how Saul had anger inside his heart, God can see what's on the inside of us, even if the outside looks good/clean, the inside is what really matters.  D had to draw a self-portrait of himself.  I was hoping for a larger head, but he said, "I want to draw me how I always draw me."  So I let him.

On a second piece of paper I had him tell me some words to describe himself and this is the list he came up with..."know & love Jesus, good, kind, tender-hearted (sensitive), helpful, obedient, friendly & shy sometimes."  I think he did a great job!

We did everything else for D today - a math review page for chapter 8, phonics pathways - reading words that D complained about doing (he thinks it's too easy for him...guess we'll speed through a few pages & find something more difficult), another chapter in Magie Treehouse #1...D will get his Book-It pizza certificate next Friday!  The chapter in the Petter Cottontail book today was about Shadow the Weasel, Reddy Fox and Peter tricking them.  D's enjoying listening to the Peter Cottontail book, he's always outsmarting Reddy Fox or another animal in some way.

Last night at bedtime, D reminded me that today is "storytime day" since we began it last week after deciding not to travel so far to the other library that does storytime.  He was a bit frustrated we did school work today since last Friday we did storytime activities & science, not our usual curriculum.  I told him that some Friday's we'll take a break, but that other Friday's (like today) we'll do school..  He was okay with it.

For "storytime" today, I picked 3 Elmer (elephant) books off our bookshelf since K had been wanting to learn more about elephants on Wednesday when we completed part of her Cubbies book project about an elephant.  The kids were finishing up some schoolwork, so I went upstairs and made a "storytime snack" since they kept telling me they were STARVING...you know, it's only been 2 hours since breakfast.  :o)  I peeled & cored an apple, sliced it into donut-like shapes, topped each slice with sunbutter & mini chocolate chips.

When I came down the stairs, they were delighted with "apple pizzas"  I had made and ate their "pizzas" while I read the Elmer books (Elmer, Elmer in the Snow, Elmer & the Lost Teddy Bear).  They were begging for more "pizzas" and I assured them we'll have them again.

 

When we were done reading, I drew elephants for them to color like Elmer (he's patchwork, but in the Elmer book the other elephants paint themselves one day a year when Elmer paints himself elephant color - the book is opened to that page on the table in the picture).  They had fun, so I think it was a sucessful storytime. :o) 



 Hooray for weekends!  As much as I enjoy schooling the kids, it's always nice when Friday comes and we have a two day break from our school routine.