Schooling Outside!

Today's weather is gorgeous and so we took our school outside during C's nap this afternoon...

K LOVED sitting on the blanket doing each of her activities from LHTH Unit 3/Day 3 and LHFHG Unit 2/3.

Earlybird Math...She counted the animals on the page perfectly. I penciled in the number lightly and she drew over my numbers.
Do It Carefully...She LOVES this book and always talks to herself as she works on her tracing saying, "I need to DO this CAREFULLY!" So cute!
K reading words from Lesson 15 of 100 Easy Lessons...She is so proud of her reading skills! D has a great time watching her learn to read the way he was taught to read!

We moved inside to the dining room after her lessons were done as D struggled to do his copywork outside today.

K painted stars with a crumpled paper towel & white paint on a dark piece of paper to go with the story of Abraham (God promises to give him as many dependents as the stars in the sky). The Bible story book reminded us at the end of the story that God does keep his Promises! What an encouragement! :o)


D completed his work (Beyond Unit 3/Day 3) at the dining room table, too.

He was instructed to draw Squanto last week (it's our Storytime book right now) and he did it with colored pencils. He also added a bottle of sunscreen in Squanto's right hand. I laughed when he told me what it was last week. I told him I didn't think they had sunscreen back in Squanto's day, but it was good-thinking on his part! :o)

Today D was instructed to surround Squanto with objects he thought are important to Squanto. He came up with the following:

• home (hut on left side)
• cornmeal (black "bowl" in left hand with yellow on top - not very visible in pic)
• family (people on right side)

We read more in our history book about the Brewster family and how they were being watched by the King's soldiers as they were not worshiping the way the king ordered them to worship. We talked a few minutes after his history reading about who this group of people become eventually...pilgrims! Drew's eyes lit up and then he realized they will meet Squanto! It was fun to see everything we've been reading "tie-in" to what he knows of history already from last year. :o)