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This week has been a rough one! We've had a lot going on with our extended family recently, and stressed mama = stressed babies! Squirrely Girl has also taken to lying, which is something we obviously are wanting to nip in the bud. In our search for something to address this issue, I ended up stumbling upon Kids of Integrity. It's from Focus on the Family, and is a site with lots of parental resources with some important topics. We're planning on using the site as needed for character development, along with a few other resources.
School work for the past week has gone well. Much of the initial stuff is still review for Squirrely Girl, but she hasn't complained of boredom, so it's all good! Can't hurt to cement the phonics rules in her mind in any case.
Bible:
Our verse for the week is Proverbs 9:10:
"If you really want to become wise, you must begin by having respect for the Lord."
We've all been working to memorize the verse and apply it to our lives. We were also able to tie in our talk about obeying our parents and being honest with how we show honor and respect for God. It was great!
Both of the girls have been doing really well with memorization! In all honesty, I wasn't quite sure how well they would do with this, but I can see that sometimes we really are just dumbing things down for them when it doesn't need to be! They're little sponges, just waiting to soak everything up!
Language Arts:
Squirrely Girl and Bear have been working with short vowel sounds. I went ahead and laminated the foursquare cards and added some Velcro for the sentences. This way, they're more durable and can be used again and again! Bear has been continuing to practice her ABC handwriting as well. I'm still using highlighters to write out much of what she's writing, but her work is already much neater than it was a few weeks ago. She also has gotten a lot better at matching upper and lower case letters together.
Squirrely Girl has also continued with her leveled readers, and has taken it upon herself to read books to Bear and Bubba in the afternoons as well!
Math:
This weeks topic was sorting and classifying. We went ahead and went with the lesson plans, and Squirrely Girl ended up completing all of the worksheets from CBM for the week. She really likes the expanded form cards. A lot. She has asked to use them several times after we've already finished school for the day, and has sat there using them.
Bear did the hands on work for this week as well as some worksheets with comparing quantity. We also got quite a few free printables from 3 Dinosaurs a while back that I had laminated, so she's been using those to practice counting and addition.
Bubba has been playing with lots of our manipulatives this week as well. One of his favorite activities right now is to play with the magnetic letters on our front door!
Science:
This weeks science topic was Flowers. In addition to the reading and activity in the TM, we read quite a bit about flowers. The kids really enjoyed reaching The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds.
We also used this simple little game to remember the parts of a flower and talked about what each part does. It's just a worksheet that we colored and laminated. I wrote numbers on the back and the kids rolled dice to get a piece of the plant.
Art:
For Science/Art, we ended up making these great Season's collages instead of making a seasons booklet. I went ahead and laminated them because I'm planning on cutting them apart and using them, along with plants and animal cards, for sorting. I figure it will be a great way to include harvest times as well as hibernation.
How was your week? What fun things did your kiddos do this week? I'd love to hear about your activities in the comments!
1 comment:
I can't wait to do that year with my little Charlie Bear. My Becca was in public school for first so I could work.
Becca is a lot better at memorizing verses than I am. She gets exasperated sometimes when I don't know the verse as well as she does! We are working on that.
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