Monday ~
Prayer and circle time - same poems and songs as last week
Talk about the ducklings in The Ugly Duckling. Read Ducks Ditty from The Wind in the Willows. I love that poem! I love Rat and Mole. I can't wait to read this book with them. Anyway.
Drew ducks down a dabbling, heads down, tails up, in the shape of a D. Wrote the letter D.
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| Sorry for the terrible upside down photography. It is not my forte. |
Made drop biscuits. Everyone helped add, Sparrow stirred. Chickadee set up the table for a tea party. Ate drop biscuits with copious amounts of butter and raspberry jam, Country Peach Passion tea, apples with peanut butter. Practiced having a polite tea time. Bluejay LOVED the biscuits.
Tuesday ~
Prayer and circle time - sang I've Been Working on the Railroad for Sparrow, because he was feeling sad. The children asked for a different poem, so I started on When the Frost is on the Punkin'. This was a fall poem that I could think of off the top of my head. We are jumping the gun on fall, I was going to try not to do that. Oh well.
Talked about the nature of the number 3 (synergy). Father, mother and baby. The Trinity. The three primary colors. A triangle with three sides and three points. Drew a triangle in the workbook, using the primary colors. Wrote the number 3, using the primary colors.
Had snack time.
Practiced writing G, Z and D. 1, 2 and 3.
Wednesday ~
Prayer and circle time.
Got out all of our (non-workbook) drawings and paintings and writing from the last two weeks. Decided who we wanted to send it to. Bluejay wrote notes on each piece of his, to the respective recipients, using especially the letters he is working on. Chickadee dictated notes to me and I wrote them in. We put together packages and then took a field trip to the Post Office.
Closing prayer.
Thursday ~
Because we were blessed with rain, the children spent the early morning running around in the wet back yard.
Prayer and circle time.
Read from Genesis (Children's Bible Reader) - Noah's ark. Warmed beeswax while we read. Then modeled apples (red, green and yellow) from the beeswax and put our apples on our end of summer table.
Painting - free choice, not directed.
Homeschool group music class, followed by 6th Hour prayers for the homeschoolers and a picnic lunch with everyone.
Sept. 22 - 25
Monday ~
Prayer and circle time. Talked about it being the last day of summer. Sang our songs and working on our new autumn poem, which is the first verse of "When the Frost is on the Punkin'" by James Whitcomb Riley. I love this poem, and still remember this verse from my own homeschooled days.
Read "The Fisherman and His Wife" from Grimms Fairy Tales.
Closing prayer.
Tuesday ~
Prayer and circle time, same as Monday. Talk about it being the first day of fall! Chickadee always corrects us to say Autumn.
Read from the Children's Bible Reader, at Bluejay's request. He is VERY anxious to get to the story of Samson. For today, we read about Abraham, Sarah, the meeting with the three angels and the birth of Isaac (which means laughter).
In our workbooks, the kindergartener and I drew a picture of a Fish, in the shape of an F. Even better, Grimms calls out this fish as a flounder! Wrote the letter F.
Closing prayer.
Wednesday ~ no school - I had to go in to work and Aaron took the day off and took the children to the beach, where they climbed the cliffs and watched the extremely high tide.
Thursday ~
Circle time and prayer. Bluejay already has most of When the Frost is on the Punkin memorized, and asked me what a "shock" was, so we got to talk about harvesting wheat, and harvesting and preparing for winter in general, the autumn activities. I was VERY grateful for the homeschooling I got, which allowed me to know what a shock actually was, having helped to build and stack one at a harvest fair long agow.
Talked about the nature of the number 4 - how strong a square is, how tables and chairs and cars and things have four legs or wheels. The four elements, earth, air, fire and water, and how everything is made up of them, in some way. The four seasons.
Kindergartener and I drew four pictures, one for each season, in our workbooks. Bluejay still needs to finish his.
I think I have let the drawings get a little too complicated for Bluejay and what he is ready for. I need to remember that he is just in kindergarten, that two colors and simple lines/shapes are more than sufficient, and that he does not need to be pushed out of his comfort zone in any way yet, but rather to be made stronger and more confident within it. So I will be trying to pull back a bit especially with the numbers... maybe go back to drawing shapes, a square, a pentagon, etc.
Off to our homeschool group music class and sixth hour, picnic with all of the other homeschoolers and lots of fun outside play time with the bigger boys, which is just what Bluejay needs and thrives on. And that is it for this week!
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