K's letter is "M" which is for "m-m-miracles" to go along with the stories of Elijah & Elisha she'll be learning this week. She did a great job saying the letter and motions for the sound today. We'll see if she remembers it tomorrow morning?! :o)
Her Bible story today was about the prophet, Elijah, and how God had ravens bring him his food. To go along with her Bible story, I put 3 types of small snacks in a bowl and she had to sort them. She was supposed to bring the food from the bowl a few feet away to the bowls where she would sort each piece, but quickly realized it would take awhile so she asked to move the bowl from the computer table to the school table. :o) Smart girl!
Sorting the 3 types of snacks (pic left - Cheerios, raisins & butterscotch chips). Notice her outfit of her choice for today (pic right) - her purple tutu with pink tights and purple tank top...the clothing is not a battle I choose to fight right now unless we're headed out of the house for the day. :oS
The way she chose to sort the snacks were to pick out all the butterscotch chips first and put them in the Minnie bowl, then pick out all the raisins and put them in the purple flower-shaped bowl and then dump the Cheerios left in the white bowl into the blue sorting bowl. :o)
She's all done sorting (pic left) so she can eat them now (pic right)!
D's Bible story was about Jesus' Last Supper with his disciples and how he commanded them to have this meal again to remember Him and so that is why we have communion at church today. To remember Jesus and what He has done for us...his body that was broken (crucified) and the blood that was shed for our sins.
For his activity, D set out 12 plates and cups - 1 for each disciple.
All set up!
He was then to pour grape juice (we opted to use water instead) into each cup...
...and then break bread into 12 pieces...
...and put one on each plate...
When he was done we sang a "hymn" just like Jesus did with his disciples. D chose to sing "Blessed be the Name of the Lord" not a classic hymn but a good praise song! :o)
D and K both enjoyed sampling the bread from the plates when we were all done with the activity since it was just a half hour before lunchtime...
We began The Adventures of Grandfather Frog as our read-aloud this morning since we finished Danny Meadow Mouse last Friday. It's another book in the Thorton Burgess series which D is enjoying. Today's chapter was about Jerry Muskrat warning Grandfather Frog of a trick two other forest characters were going to play on him. The chapter contained the word "mischief" which we had read before in an earlier book this year (Reddy Fox, I think?) and D remembered the meaning. I was happy!
He read chapter 3 in the HOP book he's working through right now - and reviewed the short i and long i sounds in various words for Phonics Pathways. I realize often that he'd much rather read books than work through the Pathways book but I know learning the rules will help him with spelling the words later on as well as continuing to read more books...and because it's a requirement of the state we continue going through the Pathways book. :o)
I decided to change up his math curriculum. Math U See is good in teaching the math concepts, but it's on the boring side and I was not happy with how the concepts were covered over the few years of elementary school looking ahead. Subtraction isn't covered at all in the level he was currently working in. I'm always thinking about IF I have to go back to work and he has to go to "real" school, he needs to be in the place where he won't be behind...ahead would be fine, I just don't want him behind.
I've been contemplating switching to Singapore Math for a few weeks now - which is the nice thing about homeschool! Singapore is the math curriculum that is written in our HOD guides. I couldn't use the level written in his LHFHG guide since it's the K math level, but reading what they do each day is "FUN" and I definitely need math to be FUN for my kids since I went through school disliking it.
I gave D the "placement test" yesterday that I printed from the Singapore website and he actually LOVED doing the few pages of the test (though I didn't call it a test). When he was done, he asked that I print more pages like it from the internet for him to do another day - you know you have a "winner" when he begs for more! ;o) He did well on the test and placed into the "1B" level which is the second half of first grade. I ordered the workbook, teacher's book and computer game for 1st/2nd grades yesterday...it'll be here by Thursday. I'm so excited!
I'm selling the MUS things to recover our $$$ (thankfully the resale value on them is high!) and put it towards buying next year's curriculum. Thinking ahead for K, she'll begin with Singapore K when she begins her Kindergarten year when she's 5 using the guide D is using this year for his Kindergaten year.
So in the meantime this week for math, we're doing "fun" things to learn facts since he struggles with some of his math facts. Today I let D use butterscotch chips (you know since K had used them for her activity it's only FAIR that I have to let D use them so he can eat them, right?!). He made four fact families on a piece of paper...I set out 9 chips and had him make a fact family using 3,6 & 9 so it looked like this:
3+6=9
6+3=9
9-6=3
9-3=6
Then he did 3 more families on his own and ate the chips when he was done. He did it right and could tell me the facts when I asked him like what 5+2 equals! :o) We'll work more on the higher facts he really struggles with tomorrow like the +8, +9 facts!
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