The Home Stretch
Back to school today to start the home stretch for the year 2012. We have eighteen more school days until Christmas break and we are both excited! Today got off to a slow start, as Mondays after a holiday week tend to do, but after dodging a mysterious rash that appeared on Dakota and handling a few dozen phone calls, I was able to get him started on his morning work. His Today's Special was on Charles Schulz, who's birthday would have been today. We read a short kid-friendly biography, looked at some Peanuts comic strips and colored a picture of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Next in his daily prep work was Monday's new movie on BrainPop Jr., which just happened to be about fossils, right on time with our dinosaur unit we are doing this week! Next came his language arts warm up book, his journal and his handwriting practice.
While Dakota worked I stripped his bed to make sure nothing was hiding in there to bite him and cause this rash and started a pot of beef and vegetable soup for when my husband comes home for lunch. It's cold outside and we are both on a diet so this will be filling, nutritious and not terribly fattening. Dakota and I did his Christmas Around the States for the day....Massachusetts. We listened to the Boston Pops play a Christmas song, looked at some Boston sights decorated for the holiday and read the story of Make Way For Ducklings. Then, while Dakota colored the special items to add to our display and did the mapping activity, we put in the disc of pictures from our own trip to Boston when Dakota was about 2 1/2 and he got to see the real island that the little ducks lived on and see himself posing with the duck statues in Boston Common. Too Cool!
After lunch we did spelling and math and did a KWL chart to go along with our Four More Years Scholastic News magazine before calling it an early day because I had to take field trip checks to the bank. With the PE and music from the weekend and the Social Studies learning about Charles Schultz this morning we ended up covering all the major subjects except for Science and History, so we'll focus on them tomorrow. We got our errands run and even had a little time to spend outside letting off some energy. It's supposed to be snowy/rainy/slushy tomorrow so we at least got to enjoy a little sunshine and relatively mild temperatures.
While Dakota worked I stripped his bed to make sure nothing was hiding in there to bite him and cause this rash and started a pot of beef and vegetable soup for when my husband comes home for lunch. It's cold outside and we are both on a diet so this will be filling, nutritious and not terribly fattening. Dakota and I did his Christmas Around the States for the day....Massachusetts. We listened to the Boston Pops play a Christmas song, looked at some Boston sights decorated for the holiday and read the story of Make Way For Ducklings. Then, while Dakota colored the special items to add to our display and did the mapping activity, we put in the disc of pictures from our own trip to Boston when Dakota was about 2 1/2 and he got to see the real island that the little ducks lived on and see himself posing with the duck statues in Boston Common. Too Cool!
After lunch we did spelling and math and did a KWL chart to go along with our Four More Years Scholastic News magazine before calling it an early day because I had to take field trip checks to the bank. With the PE and music from the weekend and the Social Studies learning about Charles Schultz this morning we ended up covering all the major subjects except for Science and History, so we'll focus on them tomorrow. We got our errands run and even had a little time to spend outside letting off some energy. It's supposed to be snowy/rainy/slushy tomorrow so we at least got to enjoy a little sunshine and relatively mild temperatures.
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