all about walls today

We had a fun day of school today.  K built the walls of Jericho out of sunbutter & crackers after we read the Bible story about Rahab and the spies & listened to her song about Jericho's walls falling down.  After she had built the wall, I asked her what the Israelites did to the walls of Jericho?  Her reply, "They ate them!"  D and I both got a good laugh out of that one.  :o)

She like using the knife to spread the sunbutter...lately she's been pulling out her ponytail holders minutes after I do her hair in the morning.  Halfway through her project I found her ponytail holder downstairs and put her hair back again...

D's Bible story was about God writing on the wall after King B used the temple things for a party & continued worshiped idols and not God.  We talked about his hand - various aspects of it (veins, knuckles, each finger, fingernails, etc.)  He then drew his hand, cut it out and pretended to write on the wall.

See the dark green lines...those are the veins. ;o)  I had asked what they were and he said, "Veins, though I should have made them lighter green."  I assured him it was okay - this is the frist time he's tried to draw a "real" hand.

Pretending to "write" on the wall...

After we were done with this activity, I had to tell K specifically that we don't ever write on the wall because I had visions of her actually drawing on the walls at some point.  I hope she understood!  We'll see...

D began chapter 10 for his math today which was adding 8.  A lot like adding 9 - making the 8 block gain 2 units to make 10 then adding the remaining units.  He's enjoying, but still refuses to use the blocks to help him sometimes.  Today he missed 4 problems on his page because he was rushing, not using the blocks.  Oops!  I make him do them over and get the right answer...he's not too pleased about it, but he needs to learn to use the blocks when he's stumped and not just guess the answer.

He is enjoying his rhyme for unit 10 since it's to the tune of "Jingle Bells" and is about all of his Bible stories for this unit.  He also knows his verse for this week already and wrote it today.  His handwriting is improving.  Hooray!