spearing fish, bandaids, sequins & timeline

Yesterday, D's history story was about a man who spent time with the Indians in the New World.  The man learned how Indians hunted fish at night - building a fire on the end of their canoe to shine on the water so they could spear fish.  D was to try to "spear" fish so we shut off the lights in the school area, filled a pan with water and fish (wax paper cutouts) and he used a spear (toothpick) to catch his fish by firelight (flashlight).  Sadly, the toothpicks didn't work too well.  I don't know if the water wasn't deep enough or the toothpicks were sharp enough or the wax paper too thick?!  So D ended up pushing the fish to the side of the water.  He still enjoyed the activity.  K even had a chance to spear fish after D caught all of them and then released them back into the water for her.  :o)

 Today's history story was actually about the Pilgrims sailing on the Mayflower to the New World in 1620 - 13 years after the Jamestown settlers came.  We read stories from both of his history texts and then a book from the library (over lunch today) called If you sailed on The Mayflower in 1620.  D really enjoys learning about history and we finally updated his timeline from the lessons of the past few weeks...

 

Here's a close-up of the picture from today that he drew while I was reading his history texts:

The text on the left says "Mayflower 1620" and he even hyphenated the word when he ran out of room!

K's activities yesterday were to complete two paper pages: Hide'n'Seek & Count on Me.  Her Bible story was about Jesus healing the man who couldn't walk (friends lowered him through the roof).  She was to draw a bandaid in each box.  I drew the first one and she drew the rest...not bad!   She also wrote her "name" on the top of the paper - see the 3 dark "t's" on the top?!  (She can type her name on her Leapfrog text toy & the computer...will learn printing a little next year and for sure when she's 5.  :o)

She's completing her tracing of the line between capital S and lowercase s.  She traces one line and then usually likes to make a second line underneath just for fun.

Today's letter activity was for her to fill in the letter S with something...she chose SEQUINS!  Which I liked since we talked about how that word begins with SSSSS - her letter of the week.  She insisted I help her, so I added glue dots and she put on sequins and then begged me to help so I helped a little. :o)

D's beginning to read more books on his own.  I printed off a generic 100s chart and have him coloring in one number every time he reads a book on his own or to K.  We began it just this week and so far he's up to 7 books!  When he gets to 100 we'll determine a fun thing for him to receive - He's still doing the Book-It for March - counting the books we read during school time for that.  Today he begged me to let his school reading books (Phonics time) count for the 100s chart, too.  I gave in - since most books take him a few days to read outloud - especially chapter books.  He was delighted.