December school so far...

We completed Unit 12 last week.  D's moved into the New Testament for his History beginning with the birth of Jesus.  He added this picture to his timeline last week for the wall...

The past few days we've been reading about the miracles Jesus did while on earth.  We read the one about Jesus asking the men to throw their net back into the water after fishing all night catching nothing.  When they did their nets were full of fish.  D had to draw a fish that day and made a cute one!  This was all him...he was adding a baby fish at the bottom when I took the picture...

The day we read about Jesus turning the water into wine...for a science activity D poured water into various containers he chose.  He discovered that water takes the shape of the container...flower, muffin tin, circle, bowl, etc.  K had to do it, too, of course!

 

D completed chapter 11 (review of shapes & counting by 2's) in his math and has moved onto chapter 12 this week which is adding doubles (3+3, 4+4 etc.).  He is also practicing reading, writing and spelling the number words "zero-nine."  He loves his math and is always looking to the next chapter to see what's coming.

For Phonics, D is learning about digraphs (ch, tch,) and more.  Throughout the Phonics Pathways book there are witty sayings that I think are a bit "corny" but D loves them and will often read them himself and then ask me what they mean.  He's finished all the beginning readers from HOP (hooked on phonics) that a friend gave to me and have moved onto the chapter books.   He's reading a chapter a day and doing an amazing job.  Lately I haven't had to help him at all...except when he's mis-read something because he's rushing.  Can't wait for him to read chapter books on his own for fun!   He earned his Book-It certificate for November but has yet to get his pizza yet!  :o)  

We began Danny Meadow Mouse for his read-aloud just before Thanksgiving.  He's already met up with Reddy Fox and the other characters from the other books we've read.  One day last week D had to make a snow mound and hide something behind it just like Granny Fox hid herself under snow trying to catch Danny Meadow Mouse.  D chose Pac-Man and had to write two descriptive words and draw a picture...

K completed her Unit 12 last week learning about letter "J" and the story of Samuel.  She is working through Unit 13 this week and was so excited the letter is "K" which is "her letter" as she calls it.  She is learning about David this week and created this scene to go with her Bible story yesterday learning about David being a shepherd and taking care of sheep.  She cut out the clouds with scissors and glued two cotton balls side by side for the sheep.  She also colored the stream blue and did a nice job staying in the "lines" I drew for the outline of the river.

It's hard to believe we're almost 4 months into our school year already.  It's been an adventure so far, but I LOVE it and so do the kids.  I wouldn't trade this time with them for anything!  Last night at our Bible study, our leader was talking about God giving us the desires of our hearts when we delight in Him, obey Him, and follow Him and I sat there thinking about my desire to school the kids.  Thank you, Lord for this amazing privilege right now!