Monday ~
Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. We went to Liturgy, wore blue and talked about the feast.
Play National Parks memory game. Talk about the parks. Letter recognition - both children spelled out the names of the parks to me as they turned over cards. Chickadee blew me away - I didn't know she had site recognition of ALL the letters. This was their idea.
Tuesday ~
Prayers and circle time
Read the first part of The Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen) - to be used for Z and D.
Drawing - free drawing with block crayons. They both drew apple trees.
We went very slow this day. Chickadee and Sparrow were not feeling well and had been up a lot the night before (and of course I had too). We took long breaks to play outside and eat food.
Wednesday ~
Prayers and circle time
Read the rest of The Ugly Duckling. Kindergarteneer - Drew a picture of the duckling zig-zagging in a Z shape across the freezing pond. Talked about Zig-Zagging and froZen. Talked about how Z has straight lines and sharp corners. Wrote lots of Zs. Three-year-old had plenty of z words up her sleeve, she's tricky like that.
Played outside, baseball, climbing, wacking things with sticks. Bluejay had a lot of strength to get out. Some buckets were broken. Sparrow climbed very high and made me nervous but I didn't intervene.
Prayers.
Thursday ~
Prayers and circle time
Talked about the quality of the number Two. Opposites. Boy and girl. Daytime and nighttime. Sun and moon. Land and sea. Mama and Daddy. Kindergartener - Drew a picture of the sun and the moon. Wrote the number 2. Two has two shapes - a curve and a straight line. Practiced writing two.
Three-year-old - drew a picture of an elephant in a nest.
While Bluejay finished his drawing and colored in all the white space, Chickadee, Sparrow and I did dishes. Chickadee helped wash. Sparrow sat on the counter and rearranged everything we put in the dish-rack.
Homeschool group music class and picnic!!!
I would love to be in your school! I've never really thought about the qualities of the number two...Glad that I can read these notes that remind me so much of the kind of record-keeping I used to do.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gretchen! I really appreciate your encouragement. This is pretty much all the record keeping I'm doing, at least for this first little year. And Bluejay's and my workbooks, of course.
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