Day Three and Day four

Unit 1 Day 3-4

Yesterday was another gym day, so the day looked much like it did on Monday.

I did not have the "dried beans or o-shaped cereal" to outlines the A's. But we did have some beads, so we used that instead.

We completed all of our activities in the morning so we were able to watch a movie and play with dad when he came home early from work, due to a rain out.

Today (day 4) was a hard morning.

I got a little off the morning routine we had created this week, and that caused some problems.

I was not as motivated this morning and I let them watch Sid the Science Kid and eat breakfast in their PJ's instead of getting dressed for the day first.

Then, instead of going straight into our bible story after Sid, I let them play together for a few minutes first.

When it was time to sit down and listen, they broke down. Not listening and not being nice to me or each other.

It ended up with them going back to bed for 15 minutes until they were calm enough to listen.

Next we did a little bit of stretching and then were able to complete all of our activities for the day before lunch.

My oldest really enjoyed the activity with the rope "snake" today. Then she asked to act out the bible story like we did the other day. She really likes that.

We did not have any magazines to look for pictures of trees for her to cut out. So, instead I found one in a coloring book. My oldest child colored the tree then cut it out and glued it onto the Number One page.

My youngest is only 19 months and isn't really into coloring yet. So I did a shape puzzle with him while my oldest colored. After coloring my oldest wanted to do puzzles also. So I gave her an alphabet puzzle to do.

We ended up spending about 15 minutes doing puzzles today.

Today was a little bumpy, but it's been cloudy and raining for two days so that may have something to do with it.

We are scheduled to have tomorrow off of school.

I think that will be a nice break for all of us. Even though these activities are fun to do, it will still be nice to have a shorter "to do" list.

We are going to try to have an outing every Friday after going to the gym. We may try to visit a local petting zoo tomorrow.

The first week of the Little Hands to Heaven has been good. I like how easy the material is to use. The activities are fun and short. My kids have seemed to enjoy them so far.