Okay, so I’m going to really think this through. I think this process will be so helpful in helping me feel better about what my children are learning and doing each week. I mean, I KNOW that I teach them and I KNOW that they are learning, but it all gets lost in the mess called life. So if I sit down and think about what we accomplished and tell all of you out in my “pretend” world (that’s what J calls my internet friends and blog etc). So, thanks for listening.
So I’ll start with Wyatt and Marrissa. Their letter of the week was the letter F. We read lots of F books – about fish and a pirate Captain named Flynn. The favorite book was The Pout-Pout Fish. The favorite activity was the dry erase pre-writing skills booklet. (Need to buy more dry erase markers, but for now Crayola’s washable markers are working.) We only did LOTW from Monday to Wednesday because Thursday was Remembrance Day and Friday was supposed to be a day with Auntie Tammy-Lee. More about those days in a little bit.
On Remembrance Day, I had the children do some worksheets about the day and we talked about the war and what the soldiers did for our freedom. We paused for a moment of silence at 11AM. The kids didn’t fully understand why but they will over time. The favorite one was the word search of Remembrance Day words. They continued that activity to Friday and even got Daddy in on the action.
Friday was supposed to be a play day at Tammy-Lee’s but Rayna was up in the night Thursday sick. I decided that we didn’t need to share our germs, so we stayed home. They played outside for a bit and played with play dough. Rayna and Daddy napped while watching Discovery Channel.
Now earlier in the week, the older girls got in a “let’s-finish-this-section” mode and we did a whole bunch of work in our character study and science books, as well as math. In science, God’s Wonderful Works, we learned about clouds and the weather. We are talking about the second day of creation. In Building A Life, our character study we are learning about self-control and honesty. Both of these need to be addressed in our home, so it is perfect timing. Usually I have to fight with Cora to get her to do the two required pages of math a day. In one day this week I believe she did 6 pages!!! Kristyn got through the required pages.
So the sickies – yeah. We had lots of that this week. So I think we did well over all. I pray we get better soon.
Striving to learn and live God's purposes, 
1 comment:
Great job!
When you put it all down you really get a lot done.
Have a good week.
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