Last Friday, I had planned to finished off the last day of Unit 6, but I came down sick and we had to put it off until Monday. So on Monday, we covered the last of the letter E and started on letter F.
We drew bricks on the count on me page to remind us that the Israelites had to use brick to build things for the Egyptians.
We do this same "Count On Me" activity every week. She draws two items in each square and then she draws the numbers 1-10 under the squares. We have done this 6 times now, so I was a little shocked when she had such a hard time with the number '5'. Even after I drew her an example, it still took her 4-5 tries before it was close to correct.
We do this same "Count On Me" activity every week. She draws two items in each square and then she draws the numbers 1-10 under the squares. We have done this 6 times now, so I was a little shocked when she had such a hard time with the number '5'. Even after I drew her an example, it still took her 4-5 tries before it was close to correct.
Poor thing found that very stressful and became angry.
So after the number '5' we took a break and colored a picture before continuing on with the activity. I am glad that homeschooling gives us the luxury to take as long as we want to do something and then to move on to something else when it just isn't enjoyable anymore.
After all, shouldn't learning be fun?!
Today we did our masking tape of the letter 'F.' This was nice and easy because we just took the bottom leg off of the 'E' that we had down from last week.
Every week, we look at her toys for things that start with the letter of the week and use them to trace the letter on the floor. 'F' proved to be a lot of fun. She was a Feathered Fairy holding Flowers and a Fan while Flying on the letter 'F'.
Too cute.
I guess we could have just used a Fish, but that wouldn't have been as fun, now would it.
For our bible story, we read the story of Moses' mother placing him in a basket and putting him the river to save him from Pharaoh. After we read the story, we used one of her baby dolls, a basket, a blanket,and a blue nap mat (as the Nile river) to act out what we learned. She hid her baby and then prayed for his protection before placing him in the Nile.
For our bible story, we read the story of Moses' mother placing him in a basket and putting him the river to save him from Pharaoh. After we read the story, we used one of her baby dolls, a basket, a blanket,and a blue nap mat (as the Nile river) to act out what we learned. She hid her baby and then prayed for his protection before placing him in the Nile.
She really enjoyed this activity. Except when her little brother kept dumping baby moses out of the basket and jumping on our river. It can be pretty stressful to attempt to do these activities while my 1 year old is running around. For that reason we usually wait until his nap to do our crafts.
Today for our craft project, she cut strips of green paper and glued them to a blue paper to make the basket floating in the grass of the river.
I know it is better for her to figure it out on her own, but I have a hard time not helping her on these projects.
So I find it is better that I start on another task instead of watching her do her craft.
Don't get me wrong, I stay close enough to make sure 
that she doesn't glue things on the carpet and windows or cut her self with the scissors, but that's it.
that she doesn't glue things on the carpet and windows or cut her self with the scissors, but that's it. This not only allows her to learn, grow and gain confidence, plus also gives me time to get dinner started or do the dishes.
Win Win.
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