‘A’ was sick on two days this week. On the first day, I was able to do all reading to him in bed and skipped the workbooks/sheets. The second day, we took off.
Bible
Egermeier’s Bible Story Book – We read about Joseph, Ruler of Egypt. Joseph’s Brothers Return to Egypt. Joseph Makes Himself Known.
Memory Verse
Matthew 7:12 "Do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Phonics/Readers
The boys read from "I Can Read It" and did worksheets 15-20 from ‘Explode the Code"
I introduced quotation marks and parenthesis.
Science
First Book of Nature: Parts of a Buttercup and activity worksheet.
First Book of Nature: Looking at Flower Parts
Discover and Do DVD #84-85 Flowers
Usborne Science Activities Vol. 2 Flowers, p. 58-59 – We dissected a rose and looked closely at the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil.
‘R’ pointing to the SEPALS.
A view of the pistil and stamens:
History/Geography
Children’s Encyclopedia- We read about people around the world: houses and homes, food and cooking, sports.
Read Aloud
The Apple and the Arrow (story of William Tell) p. 1-41
The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 3 poems
Math
Singapore Earlybird Math 2A Lesson 14- Recognizing number words
Character
A Child’s Book of Character Building – Faith: Memorize Romans 3:23 and John 3:16
Made a prayer list. Talked to the boys about sharing Christ’s love with others.
Spanish
El espanol Facil – Continued Lesson One Vocabulary
me llamo -my name is
pequeno perro – small dog
yo soy – I am
gracias – thank you
de nada – it was nothing / you are welcome
P.E.
Ran laps at mall 5 minutes. neighborhood walks. Bike rides.
Art
Artistic Pursuits- Lesson 2
We learned that artists imagine – make a picture in your mind.
We talked about this painting and how the artist used his imagination to convey his feelings about the birthday.
Marc Chagall, The Birthday, 1915
The boy’s assignment was to think of a time they enjoyed. They drew it first with the ebony pencil, then colored it in with watercolor crayons and used a watercolor brush to diffuse the colors.
This is ‘A’s drawing. It is all of him playing at the park.
This is ‘R’s drawing. It is of a fireboat he saw in the water.
Vocabulary List
I have compiled a list of words we ran across this past week. I try to pull them back up in conversation over time. Here are a few of them:
protein
vitamins
starches
staple food
tandoor
chapattis
woks
chopsticks
sieve
bailiff
larder
conspire
bleated
faith-Believing God will do what He says.
Imagine
knave
marathon
amateur
professional (as in sports)
Olympic Games
dialogue
sepal
petal
pistil
stamen
Service
The boys helped me watch the quadruplet babies with my friend, Liann.
Health
‘The Story of Me: God’s Design for S#X, Book 1. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
We are enjoying Sonlight, there is just so much more to it this year that I am slowly introducing. Great artwork boys!