Bigger Hearts For His Glory at 1/2 pace. (Unit 6)
This week was a little busy for us, but we did more than we have been doing. I think Elijah is getting ready or closer to doing more. We are still working on his independence and he has done great this week getting things ready for me at the beginning of the day. We actually did 3 days of the unit in 1 week. Usually we do only half of day 3 in the first week. We do cursive daily since "
Cheerful Cursive is such a hit! and we do 3 dictation lessons per week.
For Bible Study he had to look up the word faithful, read the memory verse and do the motions to it. Here in the picture he is binding kindness and truth around his neck. This was interesting since 2 weeks ago he had done something unkind to his little sister (making fun of her while she was crying about something) and Daddy send him to his room to pray and find a scripture that would be fitting. He went to Proverbs 3:3 and we actually had him wear a Truth and Kindness necklace for a few days as a reminder. So when I pulled the Mem. verse out this week, he already knew verse 3 by hard!
We started DITHOR 2 weeks ago at 3 times a week and this week Elijah was so excited to start "
Barry, the Bravest St Bernard". He was a bit taken back that he had to take 5 days to read this book. He read
Columbus by Ingri D'aulaire as his first book and liked it, but was not as thrilled as seeing
Barry. He did great on the activities in the student book, being able to come up with answers on his own without much prompting. I am glad that we will be reading different books so that he learns to appreciate other genres, because I do think that adventure is his favorite!
English is going very well. We even made the extra project in the book, thought it would add to co-op and with doing it half time, the kids can handle the extra work. We have been involved in co-op since we started with HOD with LHTH. I do once a week with my friend who has 2 children. We stay on track and it is wonderful accountability and encouragement for the both of us.
Oh, did we ever have a great time with this Science Exploration. It was an awesome visual of how the body's immune system goes to work. The kids had fun yelling Virus, virus etc. Than they did such a great job drawing the experiment, it was great to do it at co-op and more fun for my son to do it with his friends.
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The history activity was also a hit at co-op this week. All three kiddo's enjoyed jumping and did not want to stop. That did help with getting some better shots! The children had a great time learning about William Penn and remembered the story very well with all these activities.
I have also noticed the improvement with vocabulary for Elijah, he usually knows one of the words from contextual reading. We will probably wait a few more units before he will move on to doing 2 words. I usually do one and he has been doing well filing them away, working on his filing skills. He has had much fun drawing for vocabulary and I notice the improvement in his drawing and coloring for his notebooking and vocab.
As for Story time we are almost to the end of our Biography (a little behind). We are reading the YWAM version of Hudson Taylor and it is great, but the chapters are long and we want to understand and favor the story and be able to the activities. So with that said. I have been a little flexible in jumping around my manual more this year and putting sticky notes for some of the subjects.
Thank you to HOD for another very educational and fun learning.
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):. Here is Emmett's edible graham cracker and peanut butter wall of Rahab's house and red cord:
She's much better on the computer than me. We just completed our 4th week of lhth with our 3 year old Natalie going at half speed. She has always been sharp but she has just blossomed with lhth. I certainly love spending one on one time with Natalie but everyone else has seen what fun she is having and has been joining in 
Yeah! Kasey was able to recite Dust of Snow to me with good pitch, tone and inflection.
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