The First Week of November

We got back into the swing of things this week with our usual school routine.  You know the drill.  Walk, circle time (songs and verses), math review, and penny whistle lesson.  Grant was getting pretty good at playing Old MacDonald by the end of the week, and even picked up the penny whistle while he was playing in the school room after we were done with his lesson, just to play it for fun. 

Here is Grant playing Old MacDonald (With a little added talking from Julia):

On Monday, I told Grant the familiar fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.  I think we all know the moral of this one.  I used the wooden figures to act out the story as I was telling it.

Afterward, Grant and I drew our pictures with our block crayons.

Mom's Picture

Grant's Picture

After drawing, Grant did some reading.

On Tuesday, Grant re-told the story using the wooden figures, adding hills to his landscape.  Once he was done with his story he added a few characters of his own (the knight has to ride on the bear because we don't have a horse for him, yet).

We came up with a summary and Grant copied it into his lesson book.  After that we did some LA exercises on the board.  Grant read it through, and then I erased some of the words.  Grant had to figure out which words I erased and re-write them.

We are going to be talking more about punctuation over the next couple weeks, and today we talked about the period (you can see the verse on the upper left hand side of the chalkboard).

On Wednesday, I told Grant another familiar fable of The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs. 

(Grant added to my drawing with his own rendition.)

We challenged ourselves a little with our drawing today, and drew the goose in the "negative" by coloring in the page around her.  Grant was a little worried when I first told him that's what we were going to do, but he did well.

Mom's Picture

 Grant's Picture

After we drew, Grant did some reading, and then I read the kids this book:

It was fun to see all the pictures made from different leaves.

On Thursday, Grant re-told the story in his own way.

Afterward, Grant copied the summary and then I mis-spelled some of the words on the chalkboard, and Grant had to figure out which ones they were and spell them correctly.

We also talked about the exclamation point today.

The kids had a lot of outdoor playtime on Friday. After they had plenty of time to play in the leaves, we came in and painted with the watercolor paints.  We are going to cut these into leaf shapes, and then write things we are thankful for on each leaf.  We will add them everyday to our "thankful tree".

Here are some other pictures Grant drew this week inspired by his new knight: