Today was our first day of school for the week since yesterday morning D and I were at the dentist getting some work done and J had the day off. We began Unit 23 for both kids.
K's new letter is "S" and her color for the unit is "orange" - she was so excited her rhyme to set to music again (Row, Row, Row your Boat). She's learning about the miracles of Jesus this week - today's story was about Peter and others fishing all night, not catching anything and then Jesus asking them to put their nets on the other side of the boat and they caught a TON of fish.
To go along with her story, I put a certain amount of goldfish in two piles in front of her. She was then to tell me which pile had more/less and count the fish. She did really well. After comparing each pile, I let her choose one to move to the side to eat. She was really happy about that. :o) After going through a few rounds of goldfish having her compare them I made the piles equal and taught her to say the word "equal" which she thought was funny. We did a few more more/less piles and a few more "equal" piles and she remembered what equal means.
She then went on to finding "orange" objects for her "orange" color book page. She cut out quite a few orange objects including a container of orange sprinkles (her favorite, I think).
She glued them on the paper and then I gave her a few orange stickers to add.
Her completed page that joins blue & yellow in her color book:
D's learning about Jamestown & Plymouth this week in history. There's a small list of recommended books for each unit in the back of the HOD guide. Our library finally had some on the list, so I was able to request them last week and pick them up last night. The librarian who scanned the books last night asked if I was a teacher - you know only crazy teachers check out pilgrims books in March! :o) It's nice to read a few extra stories this week that go along with his history lessons this week.
While he was listening to history today, D created this PlayDoh ship (non-HOD activity- just something to keep his hands busy at the table while I read).
To go along with his history story (settlement in Jamestown) - his art activity today was to paint what was described in the history story when John Smith and the others arrived in Virginia in 1607. We talked about spring briefly - March, April & May in our part of the country just like in Virginia. We also read through the paragraph and then mixed up a few shades of green paint (adding a little or a lot of white to green paint). The paragraph was:
"In the month of May the new country was very beautiful. The oak trees were full of light-green leaves. The pine trees were armed with dark-green needles, and on the ground under them was a nice brown carpet. At many places were dogwood bushes full of snow-white blossoms, and here and there among them were little trees with blossoms of read. The air was sweet with the breath of flowers, and the tired men on the ships were happy to reach such a pleasant land."
This was his picture...with the oak tree on the left, the pine tree in the center, the little tree with red on the right and the dogwood bushes on the far left. He also painted a white stick person "resting" underneath the pine tree. I guess D picked up that the men were tired when they reached land and felt this guy needed a nap. :o)
He also did a great job on his thinking skills page today where he had to draw objects to represent the comparative words in each row. The first row was long, longer, longest and he drew wood logs. The second row was heavy, heavier, heaviest and he drew 1 brick, 2 bricks and then 3 bricks. The third row was cold, colder, coldest and he drew 1 scoop of ice cream, 2 scoops of ice cream and then 3 scoops of ice cream. The last row was fast, faster, fastest and he drew Sonic with only a few lines behind him, more lines behind him and even more lines in front/behind him in the last box to show he was really going the fastest! I thought his thinking behind the pictures was good!
For Phonics, he read about a third of Amelia Bedelia today. He has always loved listening to those books and did well reading a few pages aloud today. This will be the first book for his March Book-It list. The program's last month for the school year is March. I got the e-mail today to request the materials for next school year and I know he'll definitely want to do it again...though next year it will probably be more silent reading books on his part. :o)
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