Unit 10

Unit 10 Review Week : Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh

Unit 10 was a review week.

After completing our number 10 page we took all of the previous number pages from units 1-10 and made a 1-10 counting book.

It was also a nice review of the bible stories we have covered up to now.

The bible stories for this week were: Rehab and the Spies, the crossing of the Jordan River and the fall of Jericho.

Cora enjoyed creating the walls of Jericho out of crackers and peanut butter, but the best part was knocking it down and eating the rubble.

She also enjoyed marching around the city 7 times then using our outside voices, inside, to yell and make the walls fall down! :-)

I thought it was about time we did a craft project with no directions or rules, so we also made some time for free style finger painting.

We like using the spices to make the letters.
It's good to get all the senses involved in the learning process.

After reading the story of the crossing of the River Jordan, we played a balance game. First, I had her count out 10 blocks, one for each commandment. Then, she place them into the "Ark." Finally, she held the ark and carried it across the dry path across the Jordan River.
(Note the sink of dishes and shoes on the floor. What can I say, school and fun comes before house cleaning!)

Unit 9

After a week off to visit the grandparents, it was hard to get back into our school groove. My daughter wasn't that into it, and truth be known, neither was I.

So, to avoid any unnecessary battles, and to keep school fun, we had a pretty light week.
I believe we did manage to cover most, if not all of the material (with a few minor adjustments), but maybe not as thoroughly as we have on other weeks.

One of the activities for this week was to finger paint the letter 'H,' but I was feeling lazy that day so instead we went to the pool. While there I gave her a bottle of water for her to use to "draw" the letter 'H'.
There's no reason we can't have pool school, right?!

Each week, we use masking tape to make a giant letter of the week on the floor.
Well, this week my tape was no where to be found. So, instead she used Lego type blocks to build a H instead.

She really did enjoy making her 1-10 counting book.
She had recently be given some little heart sticker by her Aunt. So, she was excited to get to use her new stickers. I folded some construction paper into a book and she practiced tying bows to hold them all together. Then she put the correct number of stickers on each page to make her own counting book.
It was a good activity.




What about my younger child you may ask?
Well, I am still in a habit that I am finding hard to break. We are still doing most if, not all of our work during his nap time. I know I need to involve him more, but takes so much more effort and is exhausting. That being said, he still amazes me with what he does pick up on from the lessons that he does hear. He knows that certain shapes are letters or numbers. He doesn't know what they are, he usually calls everything A or B, but he knows they are different than other shapes in his world.
Obviously, he's learning despite my lack of teaching. Way to go little man.

Looking back on last week, it doesn't seem like it was too bad, but it was more like sloshing through knee deep mud. We made it through, but it defiantly took more effort from both of us.

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