Unit 3 and Unit 4

This week we finished up unit 4, the letter 'C',

and unit 5, the letter 'D'.

We studied the story of Abraham and Sarah and their promised baby boy Issac.

Then we went on through the story of Issac and his two sons Jacob and Esau.

In one of this weeks activities, I wrote her name with black marker, then she used different colored markers to try to cover up and camouflage her name. We did this to understand how Jacob tricked his father, by hiding himself and pretending to be Esau.

I also used this activity to explain camouflage and showed her a few examples of animals that use camouflage to hide themselves in the wild.

They traced the letters 'D' and 'd' with a deer and a doll.

The finger play for the letter 'D' had to do with a Dusty camel.

So, I printed out a photo of a camel in the desert and we took a few minutes to learn a little about camels.

Where they live, why they have a hump, how long they can go with out eating/drinking, their long eyelashes, and their self closing nostrils. I don't expect her to remember it, but seems like a good idea to introduce a little extra science.

This curriculum is so easy to use that it is possible to just read along as you go, but I am finding that if I take the time to look ahead I can add a little more information to cover even more subject areas. This makes it even more of a unit study type.

That being said, I am taking care not get carried away and add too much information. I want this preschool study to remain light and easy for her so that we can just have fun with it and to make sure we still have time to enjoy our summer.

I set out our year to have one week off each month. Next week will be our first week off. It just happened to fall on the week that Cora will be attending VBS at a local church. This works our perfectly. In light of this, I combined a few of the days for week 5 so that we could finish this unit before our break.

It also works out well that the 5th Unit is a review unit. So the week after our "break" we will look back over all the finger plays and letter sounds that we have learned so far.

I honestly didn't plan it this way, but it just works out perfectly. Hopefully, we'll be able to follow this same pattern in the future.

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Every unit, there is an activity that uses the "Count on Me" page. This week she drew two tents in every square. Then she wrote the numbers below the boxes. After she is finished we count the boxes, then count them by 2's, and finally again in Spanish.

Today the math activity was a lesson on distance. Something being near or far away. She was to pretend to be Jacob who had to travel a long way to get to Rachel. So we marked her jumps from a starting line. Later we used the tape measure and looked at the numbers to determine the length of each of her jumps. I attempted to get my youngest to join in the jumping, but he wasn't interested. He just ran around the yard.