Preparing Hearts for His Glory
Unit 7
Reading about History
This week Emmett has been learning about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. It has been an exciting week! I snapped a picture of Emmett’s written narration. I’ve started editing them now, by writing corrections on the line the changes need to be made in. It is an easy system, as he writes all his narrations in a wide-lined student notebook on the right side. So, I use the left side to made editing changes…
Storytime
Tirzah is a favorite book of all of our children! Wyatt and Riley remember it well from when they did PHFHG earlier. They both volunteered to read some of it, which I took them up on, as the Tirzah readings are longer (well worth the time though). I have them read a chapter for a part of their playtime with Emmett, or during school if they are a tad ahead for the day. I do the Storytime follow-up after reading my chapter though, that is important to me as I know it has skill that will be built upon in future guides…
Rotating History
Emmett’s timeline now includes a picture of the Exodus…
History Project
Emmett made a 3-dimensional Egyptian pyramid for his history project this week. He liked shining the flashlight on it in the closet to get the appropriate shadows to trace. He also loved adding golden glitter glue to the top of his pyramid!
Independent History Study
Emmett is improving at drawing neatly and coloring neatly for his Draw and Write Through History! This week, Moses was featured…
Poetry
We studied Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Foreign Lands” poem this week. The prewriting activity Carrie has planned always helps him make a good plan for his writing before he begins. He came up with outdoor things he would see aerially perched high above our home (the Hefty’s are farmer who farm the land around us, Julie and Channon are our neighbors, and Old 77 is the highway near our home). Then, he came up with the lines on his own, but I wrote them for him, as we were short on time that day…
Bible Study
Emmett’s Common Place Book now includes more Bible verses in cursive. He needs help remembering his cursive. So much about cursive is being able to flow from letter to letter without picking up his pencil. So, to help with this, I sat near him and spelled out some of the tougher words as he wrote, saying “that’s a tall letter; that’s a short letter; remember how ‘w’ joins with that little odd mark”, etc. It really helped him, and I can see his cursive gradually improving each week…
Language Arts
In Grammar, Emmett learned to properly write contractions. I often use a markerboard during R & S English lessons to help as needed. In dictation, and writing in general, I’m trying to have Emmett make is capital letters tall, his lowercase letters short, and his words not ‘float’ but rather touch the bottom line. I’m seeing gradual improvements!
Math Exploration
Skip counting to Bible Heroes music for the 7’s made doing the 7’s multiplication page quite easy! Singapore Math helped him understand the connection between multiplication and division so easily as well. I’m glad they teach these concepts together, as they are so inter-related. You can see the progression to large number multiplication and division with 7’s in the assignments. I often write the problems for Emmett on a markerboard, which gives him ample space to solve them…
Science Exploration
Emmett LOVED his science experiment this week! He became a bat using his probiscus to sip nectar from a flower and cross-pollinating flowers as he flew from flower to flower. What fun! For his science comprehension questions, I’m encouraging him (expecting him really) to follow his grammar suggestion of answering a question by starting with words from the question in his answer…
In Christ,
Julie
