Preparing unit 2 (1/2 pace)
The highlight of this week for ds was to do his science experiment and he had a blast! He was to find 2 ways to melt an ice cube, the first in a cup and the second was to be a quicker melting process. Since Daddy was working outside at the time, he enjoyed this experiment with him and ended up explaining more to him about different things that control the outcome, such as the spade leaning back and all the water draining, keeping the ice on the hot surface at all times and not in a puddle of cool water.
For the first trial he choose to put a cup in the sun, for the second ice cube one he decided to do 3 different surfaces at the same time. Glad he used more than 1 color on his science lab sheet:D
This week ds learned to draw a giraffe for Independent History and we went ahead and colored since we have next week off! I had ds trace it first on tracing paper, than go back and draw it on computer paper.
His cursive is improving steadily. Such a difference with last year, when he was not completely ready to learn cursive. We love "Cheerful Cursive". This goes to show, that when a child does not do well with a particular program we should not be too quick to disregard the program. Instead of switching, prayerfully considering what to do is the way to go. Than resting in what you believe you heard the Lord say. In this case, it was wait a year and return, now we are off to smooth sailing.
Little Hearts For His Glory unit 20
Ds is enjoying his new Story time book: "Chatterer the Red Squirrel". I absolutely love the way Carrie works on handwriting, language art and creativity doing these activities, brilliance
He is doing very well with his handwriting and actually keeps up wonderful with the scheduled amount of pages. Ds tends to be a perfectionist to his detriment, but I've noticed that he is relaxing a bit more and is beginning to realize that he needs to give himself time to learn, without purposely being sloppy
His highlight was that we used homemade instruments to do repeat patterns and he was sure to give me some as well at the end. He loves taking the role of teacher, which shows great that he understood the activity. I was a bit daring to use two glass lids as my percussion instrument, but all went well, phew!
This was done as a science experiment, that was drawn from a history story about how a servant found his master who was captured in a castle, by using sound to find him. They sang a song back and forth that only the two of them knew.
Our house is fairly small so we can not have one listening to music out loud while the others are doing school. I gave the kids earphones, and it was perfect talking about the ear and how it can get damaged when we make loud noises. We keep if very soft and the kids see the earphones as a special treat!
Ds continues to enjoy doing reading with TRL. We started at the end of the summer and his reading has quickly become more fluent in the last couple of weeks. He was super excited to finish his math book. We started LHFHG later in the school year so we had to finish 2B. I took the time to review the concept of skip counting last week. Now he has a skip and a bounce along with going all the way up 100 counting by 5's.
Little Hands to Heaven unit 3
Abraham's promise of descendants as many as the stars is visualized in this great craft, this after we acted it out as a dramatic play.
Dd enjoyed her activity this week setting up 3 stuffed animals for a meal so much.
and so did I.
Just like the 3 men from heaven who visited Abraham. She did so good, keeping all the colors together all on her own. Just so neat how different kids there creativity shows. She had so much fun, that she and ds2 continued to play this for at least and hour.
Learning how the letter c is written. We used C-C- "Candyland" Cards and c-c-cup cake stickers. We used window markers to write the the letter this week. She did great finding all the c's, counting them and she always wants to practice writing so we just flip the paper and make a couple of letters and she's satisfied. Instead of using a car to ride on her letter, she used her "My Pony".
We had to make tents for our Count on Me page and dd said: "Oh, Mom it looks like a V". (up-side down, I quickly added)
She wants to learn to write her numbers as well, so she tries or copies mine for the ones she does not know. On her number 3 page she cut out 3 travel bags and is learning to write the number 3.
I misunderstood and thought my son was done with Peril and Peace when actually they just took a detour for a little bit. He is back to it now in Unit 5.) He seemed to enjoy it and is looking forward to what is coming next. Here are a few pictures of his History project, Science notebooking, timeline, and Shakespeare page.
. We haven't picked it back up yet. I am giving her a few more weeks to gain some confidence in her own abilities. She is getting better at her letter sounds, and is feeling more secure. Hopefully we can pick it up in a month or so. I'll keep an eye out for your week in review posts to see how your dd does. It's nice to know someone else is in the same boat.
