School was BUSY this week - the good kind of busy but nonetheless busy!
A few highlights...
This whiteboard + low odor markers have been game changers for Natalee when she wearies of paper/pencil tasks.
In History we touched on a couple of prophets, including Jeremiah and Nahum. We also talked about King Josiah and made scrolls to remind us of the first five books of the Bible that were found during his reign. I simply let Xavier draw Bible characters on his scroll and let Natalee choose between drawing or writing Bible words (she chose writing and went to get her Bible for inspiration).
She looked in her Bible until she found the picture of King Josiah that she remembered was in there. Such a good memory, she has!
Xavier worked on the Letter R and was especially impressed with the racetrack worksheet his teacher mama found!
In Science we continued talking about invertebrates - today's discussion of coral reefs was especially fun and I'm hoping to find time this weekend for the kids to paint coral reefs!
Today we had a mini lesson over Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We talked about equality and the children brought up the word "fair" several times in our discussion. We watched a short book video on Netflix and I was a little sad to see a bit of the children's innocence slip away as they realized, perhaps for the first time, that life for all people hasn't always been "fair." The children's books I ordered on Dr. King, Rosa Parks, segregation and civil rights arrived today and I intend for these lessons to continue gently, with lots of discussion.
After the movie I asked the children to draw me one thing they learned about Dr. King.
Xavier drew Dr. King on his knees praying for the people.
Natalee drew Dr. King marching and helping the people.
In math, Natalee started subtraction and is LOVING it! I'm so relieved as I was very nervous to begin this topic. It's helped her memorize her addition facts a little better and she's started to understand the relationship between number families!
In reading she's chugging along - we're working on letter cluster pairs - she loves rules so of course she's loving learning each cluster/combo's "rule. :) She has a passion for reading that is such fun to watch grow!
That's it! Tomorrow is co-op, catch up (though I think we actually made it through every lesson plan this week!) and eye appointments for Natalee, Mike and me. I hope you learned as much this week as I think we did!
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