Awesome Monday
Today we had a great homeschooling day. Natalie arrived late so I had time to get my materials and ideas together. Koda asked to do his new USA puzzle around 10 and I said yes. When he finished, I gave him the large USA floor puzzle to do. Then we layed out our "flashcards" of the states that I got at the dollar store and matched the capitals with them. It was a simple idea that Dakota took to right away and he loved matching them up and learning ones we didn't know.
Next up was reading and he went in on my bed and asked me to bring the baby in so he could read to her. She happily played with her toys and her toes and he felt important being able to read aloud to her. We moved out to the livingroom and got into the recliner with ...If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern (love anything by her). We got through the first 32 pages and laughed together at the foods they ate, the things they had to do at school and the "medicines" they made. Afterward we made some cornbread muffins, Dakota's only sure thing when it comes to eating colonial food.
After lunch we read The Magic School Bus and the Five Senses and then watched the MSB video "Makes a Stink". We talked about the sense of smell after that and read a few pages on KidsHealth.org about the nose and what it does. Then we played the smell identification game where he wore a blindfold and I let him smell some very common things around here. I was amused when he said a marshmallow was hot chocolate (close!) and amazed that he had no idea for syrup, which he eats almost every day of his life on pancakes or french toast sticks. We finished off Science with a reading of Ferdinand the Bull. I love that book! We did two pages in our Language Arts book and Unit 11 bookwork for Spelling. We made a foam manger craft complete with a small replica of the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph and sang "Away in a Manger" and discussed what it meant. Last, but not least, we finished Unit 11 in Math. It amazes me that regrouping came so easy for him. He gets it easily and can do it in his head. Sometimes math can be more confusing, though, when they make you go step by step and he can't just do it in his head and be done. He's always done math in his head, even when he was counting and little. I'm glad someone in this house has a math talent!
Next up was reading and he went in on my bed and asked me to bring the baby in so he could read to her. She happily played with her toys and her toes and he felt important being able to read aloud to her. We moved out to the livingroom and got into the recliner with ...If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern (love anything by her). We got through the first 32 pages and laughed together at the foods they ate, the things they had to do at school and the "medicines" they made. Afterward we made some cornbread muffins, Dakota's only sure thing when it comes to eating colonial food.
After lunch we read The Magic School Bus and the Five Senses and then watched the MSB video "Makes a Stink". We talked about the sense of smell after that and read a few pages on KidsHealth.org about the nose and what it does. Then we played the smell identification game where he wore a blindfold and I let him smell some very common things around here. I was amused when he said a marshmallow was hot chocolate (close!) and amazed that he had no idea for syrup, which he eats almost every day of his life on pancakes or french toast sticks. We finished off Science with a reading of Ferdinand the Bull. I love that book! We did two pages in our Language Arts book and Unit 11 bookwork for Spelling. We made a foam manger craft complete with a small replica of the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph and sang "Away in a Manger" and discussed what it meant. Last, but not least, we finished Unit 11 in Math. It amazes me that regrouping came so easy for him. He gets it easily and can do it in his head. Sometimes math can be more confusing, though, when they make you go step by step and he can't just do it in his head and be done. He's always done math in his head, even when he was counting and little. I'm glad someone in this house has a math talent!
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