So this morning I popped in one of our Hillsong kid's CDs (Superhero) which is really fun, fast-paced music. I had a list of activities the kids and I did while the song played - running in place, jumping jacks, leg lifts, bouncing ball, windmills, push-ups, sit-ups, & toe touches. It was a fun 10 minutes of activities! C watched from her gate and enjoyed the show, I think! ;o) When we were done the kids begged for more! I love it!
We then sat down at the table and began Unit 19...
K's letter for the unit is "P" like "P-P-Pull" which relates to pulling the oars as you row a boat. Her Bible story this week is about Jonah. Today we read how God told him to go to Ninevah to tell the people there about God so they could repent of their evil ways, otherwise their city would be destroyed. Jonah disobeyed and went the opposite way to Tarsus instead.
She was to draw a path with two lines at the bottom - one to Ninevah and one to Tarsus with water below. She drew everything below except the letters "N" and "t" which I made for her.
She also built the city of Ninevah out of cardboard blocks (sorry no pic) and then had to go away from Ninevah using various forms of movement...crawl, tiptoe, big steps, walk backwards, hop, step sideways, etc. She had a good time doing this.
When her school was finished for the day, she kept begging to cut something. I had found this book of activities the other week for $2. I love it!
There are many fun, colorful activities for her to do this year (and most likely next year as some require more skill). I found two simple activities for her to do today...cutting out puzzle pieces and gluing them together to make a bear (bottom of pic) and coloring the other side of the bear (left side) which she didn't quite finish.
D did a great job with his Thinking Skills page today. He was to think of synonyms (we learned what the word meant today) and write them in the blanks. I had him read each sentence and think of the synonyms first and I wrote them on separate paper so he could copy them correctly...but all the synonym words he thought up himself. He did a great job!
For History, we finished reading the last Bible story from his Bible story book today - all about John writing the book of Revelation. We talked a bit about what great hope we have in this life...Jesus is coming back and if our earthly body dies before that then our soul goes immediately to Jesus and our earthly body will rise at the time of Jesus's return (rapture). From his history book (History for Little Pilgrims), we read a story about Polycarp the Martyr from the church in Smyrna around 200 A.D. In the guide book is said I could omit the reading for today, but I went ahead with it because I knew D would understand the story. After I read it, we talked about what a martyr is and D drew another picture to add to his timeline that was shown in the history book today:
I was upstairs prepping D's science activity while he completed his picture. When I came back downstairs he showed me the picture and what he had added: the person is inside a flame of a fire saying "Ya! I M STAVD" (Yeah! I'm saved!) Those martyrs were fearless - they knew for sure they were headed to heaven when they died to be with Jesus forever. D got it today!
For Science today, D learned the colors of the rainbow (tied into his Bible story about John's vision - seeing the splendor of heaven, various colors, etc). We wrote down all the colors - including INDIGO which was new to him since he wanted to leave the rainbow with just 6 colors. I then showed him how the first letter of each word spells "Roy G Biv" and he said "COOL!"
I filled 3 glasses with water and added red, blue & yellow food coloring to them. I was all out of "normal" food coloring so I had to use the Wilton decorating colors...praying they'd work (and they did...really well!). We set the three primary colors on the school table on top of a rag to pick up any spills. :o)
I let D pick which two primary colors he'd mix together first - he chose blue & yellow. I had him pour blue & yellow into the first empty glass trying to guess what it would make...K was watching and you would have thought D had set off fireworks the way she was so excited to see the water turn green! D then poured red & yellow together & made orange. After this I had him figure out what two colors we hadn't mixed yet...red & blue which made purple (actually more of an indigo color).
K was watching the entire time - cheering as new colors were made and when she tried to guess what would be made, D and I would laugh. She was hoping for pink, I think. :o)
When we were all done & had taken the pics above, I let them mix the secondary colors together to make even more colors. At the end all the colors went into two glasses and made dark green & brownish yellow - looked disgusting. Both kids begged to do it all again...we will...on a day when they need to do something to stay out of trouble. ;o)
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