Unit 12,13,14

I am sorry to say that I have neglected this school blog the past few weeks.
We have been pretty busy.

So to catch up, I have loaded all the pics from the past few weeks to this Smilebox.

We have taken a two week fall break.
Last week the kids went to visit their Grandparents and this week we are just hanging out at home and enjoying the fall weather.

I'll try to do better at updating this blog when we start up again next week.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Unit 12

This week I discovered how useful You Tube can be for homeschooling!
Who knew?!

This week is letter "J" week.
So we have watched clips and learned about jellyfish and Mexican jumping beans;
enjoyed watching Sesame street letter J songs,
watched blue jays collecting material for a nest,
watched jack rabbits and jumping kittens,
and even watched a Bugs Bunny and the lumber jack cartoon.
Fun stuff!

But we also came across a great set of kid videos with the nice women and her puppet alligator as the host.
She made clips for every letter. In the clip they go over the letter sound and then investigate three foods that start with that letter. Cora really enjoyed them.
Check them out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyLHI3PQ6lk&feature=PlayList&p=E42AD7EC33E98FAC&index=9

Unit 11

This week we learned the letter "I".

On the Count on Me page this week, we increased the number of items she drew from 2 to 3 and are starting to learn to count by 3's.


For our Bible stories this week we learned about:

"A fighter" (Gideon)
"A strong man" (Sampson)
"A kind woman, too," (Ruth)
"Nothings I-I-impossiable for God to do!"

I made a mistake the first on the first day and somehow turned to the wrong page and did the activities for Day 4. Oops

So on day 2 we did day 1, on day 3 we did day 2...and so on. It was a little mixed up but we got it all finished.

Since this week was the letter "I" week, it would have been a great week to make home made ice cream.
We didn't do it, but it would have been a good idea. :-)


Instead, we used their pretend ice cream to cover the masking tape "i."

These are also great for teaching colors, Spanish colors, or counting scoops. I pretend to be the customer and they make the ice cream that I ordered. Fun.


In some of the material for the letter "I," it is drawn without the top and bottom line. Then it looks like a lower case "L."
I am still not sure which way they are teaching the kids now, so we learned it both ways.

For one of the activities, I gave her a sheet of white paper and she followed my verbal instructions to draw a picture of our bible story that day. It was a good activity to reinforce the story and to develop listening skills.
(Gideon's Army: The blue is the water, the hand is for the people who used their hands to drink, and the smile indicates that they are the ones that God choose to be in the army.)









After reading the Sampson story, we used some grocery items to learn about weight.
What items are heavier? What items are lighter?