Back at it!

We got back into HOD today after taking 5 school days off for a trip to a nice, warm, sunny southern state! We had a great time! We could have done HOD on the road and in the hotel, but we decided to make it our "spring break." :o)

We finished out Unit 17 before our trip, so today we began Unit 18 for both kids.

K learned about Isaiah and begged to read the "O" devotional & verse in her devotional book. I'm not going to say no! ;o) Then for math, she used mini chocolate chips to be "petals" on flowers to practice counting between 11 and 20.
I bought a box of rubber letters over the weekend for the kids to use with spelling/reading since we didn't have any tactile letters other than A-Z chunky foam ones that go with a foam puzzle C likes to take apart daily!

D used them today to review spelling words from Unit 14 (today is a review week for spelling words). He was so excited about them which surprised me because I didn't think he'd like them THAT much! He kept putting certain letters together (ie. "sp" and then "or" and then "t") and then sliding them together making the sounds speed up until he's saying the word.

To go with his history/science today, he was to follow a trail of cotton balls (vanilla scent) to a "river" (where the scent is lost) and then past the river (scent changed to Almond) pretending to be a dog...we read about dogs, too. He really got into it!