Unit 6 day 3-4

Unit 6 Day 3


On day 3, we used glue and sugar to make a picture of Joesph in the desert with the Egyptian Pyramids.


Then we also used some of her toys to act ouy the 10 brothers bowing down to Joseph.





Unit 6 Day 3

For our Bible Story today we read of how Joseph told his brother who he was and forgave them.


We then used a mirror to look closely at our faces and pointed out things that make us special. Just like the brothers had to look closely to see that it was indeed Joseph.


Next we read from our ABC, verses book and learned the verse for the letter E.
"Even a child is known by his deeds."



In our letter activity today we used puff balls to outline the letter 'E' and 'e'

Unit 6 Lesson 1

This week we are moving on to letter 'E' and the number 6, and learning more about Joseph in Egypt.

We kept our lesson confided to my youngest's nap time today, because this morning we visited a blueberry farm to pick fresh blueberries.

Flexibility...a continued blessing of road schooling.

Just like last week, we did not have the magazines to cut out 6 pillows, as per the instructions, so I had her draw 6 beds instead. The pillows/beds were to remind her that Pharaoh had a dream.

There is little emphasis on numbers in this curriculum. There is only one weekly activity which addresses the new number of the week. Though, once a week she does write all of her number from 1-10 an the Count On Me sheet.

I would like to see more use of numbers in the curriculum, but I know that there is so much time ahead for her to work on that.
So maybe it is better to be focused primarily on the letters now.

Unit 5 Lesson 4-5

Cora was feeling better today so we continued on with the story of Joseph U5 day 4 and day 5.

Day 5 didn't have too much to cover so we just combined it with day 4.

Today we learned how Joseph was obedient. We acted out being obedient with a stuffed animal, kinda like the game of Simon Says. Also played "Yes, Mommy" where she said "yes, Mommy" to everything I asked her to do, just like Joseph had to do as a servant and prisoner in Egypt.

Instead of just looking at the flash cards, I had her finger paint the letters A-D, then I gave her free time to paint anything she wanted.

Good Friday.

Unit 5 lesson 4

Had to take a sick day on Thursday.
My little girl was sick.

After a day of laying on the couch, in the evening she asked to do a school craft.
So we used some spices and glitter to outline our review letters.

Hopefully, we'll be able to do the rest of lesson 4 today.

Unit 5 Day 2-3 (Little Hands to Heaven)

Continued with our review week

and today we introduced

the number 5.

We were instructed to cut out 5 purses or wallets and glue them on the Number 5 page to remind her that the brothers sold Joseph, but instead we took the idea in the math activity and did color rubs of 5 coins.

I was surprised that she found this task difficult and got frustrated at her attempts to do it on her own. After I helped her hold the coins down, it was much easier for her. I should have taped the coins down under the paper to make it easier for her to do on her own.

I liked the Hide and Seek Review page today. She had to look for all the letters we have learned thus far as well as match the lower case with the upper case. She missed finding a few of the letter, but was able to point them out with a little help.

For the math activity, we took our cup of pocket change and she sorted them. She has a nice little cash register, so we used that, but you could just use cups or a muffin pan as the book suggests.

We also took a few minutes to look at the the coins. The quarters were especially fun with all the different state pictures on the back. There are a lot of activities you could do with the state quarters, math, geography, history, art.... could be very useful one of these days.

Unit 5 Day 1

I was surprised to find our week off of school to be such a nice break. It's not that this material is difficult or even too time consuming, but it was still nice to have a week off from "school."


so, after a week of vacation bible school and a long weekend of camping in Hot Springs, we started back into our school lessons today.

Unit 5 is a review week.

I thought this meant that we would be reviewing the bible stories as well as the letters, but turns out the material reviews the letters, but continues on in the bible material.

Today we started to story of Joseph.

For an added math activity, I had her draw one big person to be Jacob/Israel and then 12 smaller people to be his 12 sons. We counted the sons she drew and then she wrote the number '12.'

The bible activity for today had her act out Joseph getting his new colorful coat. Then we used paint and a coffee filter to make a colorful coat. While I was setting up the paints I asked her to draw Joseph's colorful coat on a stick figure man. This was not a scheduled activity, but it kept her busy while I got the craft supplies together.

For the letter activity, instead of simply reviewing the "flash cards," I made a little jumping game for her to do. This seemed like more fun and got her up and moving as well. Win Win.

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.