Bible - We started reading 101 Bible Stories beginning with the New Testament stories. We are also reading our devotionals. Squeak said she loved hearing stories about Jesus because she loves Him!! What a blessing to hear those words coming from such a little one!
Science - This week, we talked about birds as part of our Living Things study. We talked about bird bodies, beaks and baby birds and nests. Here are some projects Squeak worked on for birds:
Squeak made a TP roll hummingbird.
Squeak is making a bird's nest with baby birds in it. She is using yellow fluffy stuff for the feathers and brown pipe cleaners for the nest pieces.
Squeak also completed a few pages in the Singapore Science workbook.
Math - Ah, math! I was worried because of Squeak's young age, she would have trouble with the mental aspect of Singapore Math. Well, I was wrong because it completely clicked. She worked on the very beginnings of the "Singapore Way" of adding to 20. She easily understood that, for example, 10 and 8 made 18 therefore 10+8 = 18. This, in turn, made place value simple. She liked grouping stuff by 10 and "adding on". She even made up her own problems.
Next week, we are going to start working on the problems where you need to make 10 in the equation to add, like 9+6 and use number bonds to solve. This is the last portion of 1a we will do.
Phonics/Reading - Squeak has been using the JumpStart Advanced for phonics and reading work. She has also been reading books to me, when she wants to.
Read Alouds - Here is a rundown of what we are using for both girls:
-Bible devotional/stories
-Peak With Books book list
-Sonlight P 3/4 book list
-the 20 books we get from the library (every 2 to 3 weeks -I increased Squeak's limit from 15 to 20)
-Magic School Bus books, various science readers, math story books
-whatever the girls pull out from the book basket (I recently bought some new Berenstain Bear books)
And we read chapter books at bedtime...currently Stuart Little and I have Magic School Bus chapter books coming via paperbackswap.com.
Other - The girls made "craft dough" which we baked then painted.
And I have a Harold and the Purple Crayon book collection (4 stories total) and we read two stories and drew with a purple crayon:
We used Squeak's first activity drawer the other night too. She really likes those - I think it had a Patternable page in it and a coloring, cut and paste activity as well.
I think that's about it, for the most part. PHEW! A very FULL week (and I think I left off a few things!)! This is ok for the first week but I think we'll settle down a bit!! We did school on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Today (Friday), we have been doing read alouds and some painting - more craft and book reading type of day.
That does sound like a full week! Fun, too.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you two are doing great. I loved reading Stuart Little to my kids!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous week! I love when we catch our little ones saying how much they love Jesus. Makes it all worth it, doesn't it!
ReplyDeleteYou had a great week! So fun to see all your picts! Sometimes I wish I didn't have the older 3 to school so we could do "fun" kindergarten more often! :-)
ReplyDeleteYay... we accomplished very little this week... but it was fun!
ReplyDeleteAwww! That looks like a great, fun-filled week! (And we love Harold and his purple crayon, too!)
ReplyDelete*sniff, sniff* I miss that age!
ReplyDeleteI love the all the fun crafts!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great first week of kindergarten! I'm sure you're ready to fall out in the floor!
ReplyDeleteHow fun! We were so excited to start K this year, too. We made a TP roll Tiger this week, lol. TP rolls are great, huh?
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