"one more page, please!"

We didn't take a "no school" day today.  We're finally making progress completing units each week and I don't want to give that up...yet.  We're trying to finish the curriculum by the first week of June so we can have summer vacation this summer.  We may/may not stay on the academic calendar for future homeschool years.  But I won't know until I try - so we'll see how it goes this summer for all of us.  :o)

K's Bible story was about King Joash fixing the temple...her activity was to "fix" the cracks in the walls of the temple using "paste" which was cornmeal/water.  K did it at first and then threw a fit saying she didn't want to do it anymore because it was "yucky" so D took over for her and finished the project.  I had to get a pic of her pouting with the project in front of her...

K also drew tall rectangles to be "pillars" of the temple on her paper.  I drew the first one and then she drew the next four...her first attempt was a bit off but then she corrected herself and made 3 really good tall rectangles. :o)

D is LOVING his math - opting to do it first now.  Hooray for the change!!!  Today his lesson was about graphing so he had to look at the graphs and compare the numbers and complete a few statements about the graph.  He really enjoyed this, so much so, that he BEGGED me to do "just one more page!"  I was thrilled he was begging for me, so of course I said "yes!"  Seriously, why would I say no. :o)  Since it was the 4th graph to look at and then complete statements, I let him do it on his own while I left the table for a few minutes.  When I returned he had it done correctly - all of it - read the statements and filled in the correct number for each!  :o)  HOORAY!

For his reading, we've begun reading through the Beginner's Bible (first book on the "emerging reader list" that HOD uses after basis phonics instruction - for D it was 100 Easy Lessons).  I moved to these books since the other "readers" he was reading were a bit too easy for him.  He read the first story (creation) with only a few word helps from me.  I was impressed.   We'll continue on for a few more stories then move to another book on the list in order.  I'm trying to decide what he'll do for this subject next year - and if he can read the emerging readers with minimal help then he'll move into Drawn into the Heart of Reading. We'll most likely continue the emerging readers over the summer - so he's reading daily anyway.

His Bible story today was about the two disciples who Jesus appeared to on the road after his resurrection.  It's a great story because they don't know who He is right away! ;o)  D enjoyed it.  We played a game where I hid an object under a cloth and he had to tell me what it was by feeling the shape.  He guess 2 out of 3 correctly.   ;o)

We read another chapter of Grandfather Frog - it was about Longlegs (heron) and Whitetail (hawk) fighting because neither one caught their breakfast (which was supposed to be G Frog) :o)  We had a short discussion about fighting - in the book no one won, both left still hungry and sore from fighting.