D has finished up Beyond Unit 2 and began Unit 3 today.
K has finished up LHTH Unit 2 and began Unit 3 today, too.
This is the poem illustration D drew on Monday to go with the poem titled, "Father, We Thank Thee." He drew objects mentioned in the poem and then added his own objects (our house, the bikes, garage...you know what we've been doing daily the past week - taking bike rides!) :o)
The first verse of the poem he copied for Unit 2 (doing 1 line a day - we're working up to 2 lines/day for Unit 3) and easing into more copywork as writing is his least favorite thing to do. :o(
D took his spelling test for Unit 2 on Monday and received a 100%! He self-corrected "when" the word he had struggled with all through Unit 2 last week. I was proud of him!
His timeline addition for Unit 2...Jamestown 1607. This was after we read about two children who lived in the settlement of Jamestown and what life was like for them. I love reading about history through the eyes of the children. It really comes to life for D!
To end Unit 2 yesterday, we read excerpts from the book of Ruth. She was responsible and worked hard (to go with his Bible verse for unit 2 - Gal 6:9 "Do not become weary in doing good..."). God rewarded her faithfulness in giving her Boaz and a son which was in the line of King David and years later...Our Savior!
D's art project was to make rows in a field (brown paper folded accordion-style) and then add stalks of grain and the extras that were left behind for Ruth to pick up.
He enjoyed learning the accordion-fold...
He cut the stalks out all by himself, no tracing, no pre-drawing...just cutting!
The extras Ruth picked up in the last "row" of the dirt...
I went back & forth last week about K doing some of the things in LHFHG (Fine Motor & Earlybird Math) and decided we will do it this year. She did a great job with this tracing from her Do It Carefully book...
Today's Do It Carefully page was making an "X" on the picture in each row that didn't belong. I had her make a few practice "X's" on scrap paper, then she did "real" ones on her page. She took her time and looked carefully at each picture. Some were a little tricky. :o)
I did a few counting/patterning activities with her on Monday & Tuesday...
We used foam numbers I cut for another math game this summer - she counted the correct number of blocks to place below each number. She knows 1-5!!!!
Patterning with the blocks...pink & purple of course!
Playing with Mighty Mind today while I work with D on some of his work...
Since D used chocolate chips for his math today, K begged to do so, too! She had to make 5 chocolate chips appear in each cookie on her paper. Then when it was complete she could eat them!
We've taken 5 days to write the numbers...working on one each day.
I make up a silly story to go with each one to help her form them correctly. She's doing well. I feel as if I wait until next year to do Earlybird math with her, she'll be past it academically, even though right now there's a bit of a struggle making numbers correctly. (It's not her desire to do it, but her actual fine motor skills.) D's art project today to go with his history reading...a gray wall with green vines & red roses...
Of course whenever paint is out for one child, the other one begs to paint, too!K is painting the wall (I drew a sample paper for D) completely red. No roses or green vines for her wall!
Her finished "wall" completely red - dripping with TONS of paint!
D's new list of spelling words for Unit 3 (again from the harder list in the appendix)...He was so excited "little" has 6 letters! He even finished his list with "I (heart) You!" I love it! He has such a tender heart.
We've had a busy 3 days so far this week, but it's been fun and has worked well to school during C's naptime in the afternoon. :o)
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