We started every morning this week with a walk, blessing, circle time, foreign language lesson (singing a song and learning simple phrases in French)penny whistle lesson and math review. Some days Grant and I reviewed math with bean bag tosses, sang the times table's songs, and some days he worked out some problems on his own. Grant will also have a new form drawing every day this week. Starting next week, he will only have one form drawing to practice every week.
On Monday, which will also be "clay day" for Grant, he did his best to model a pyramid with the fingertips in front of him. This was quite a challenge for him, so I will probably let him do it like this again next week before having him try and do it behind his back.
I also read him a short story about Times and Minus the math gnomes to help him review greater than,less than, and =. He also worked out some problems.
I read the first two pages of the Lono book to Johanna and then we modeled an island out of clay.
On Tuesday, Grant will be working on a ball twirling exercise, eventually progressing to twirling a ball in each hand going in opposite directions while spinning a third ball under his foot (in the same direction as that hand is going) while saying a memorized verse. This will definitely take him a few weeks to get the hang of!
Grant worked out some math problems, and then we reviewed money. We talked about what each coin was worth, and how many of each make up a dollar. After that, I handed him some bills and coins and asked him to tell me how much money he had total. Then I handed over the money drawer to him and "bought" some items from the school room and he had to give change back to me.
I read Johanna the next two pages of Lono where she gets friends in the form of lichen babies and mossy maids. We also meet the little palm man, Coco Boato, from a nearby island who is intent on getting to Lono in his little boat after hearing from the wind messengers that she is lonely and bare.
To go along with the story, Johanna and I planted seeds for an indoor herb garden.
On Wednesday, I read Johanna the next two pages in the Lono story, and we drew a picture of Lono and Coco Boato who is now a tall and mighty palm tree.
Johanna's Picture
Grant continued his review of money as we set up a "Truxton Market" in the school room. Johanna was a baker selling tasty treats, and Julia was selling fruits and vegetables. Grant and I wrote down the prices of the various items, then Grant bought items from the girls and figured out how much money he needed to pay each one.
On Thursday, we set up the market again, and this time Johanna bought items from Grant and he had to figure out how much she owed, and how much change he had to give back. I also made sure Johanna bought multiple items of the same thing, so Grant got a chance to use multiplication, as well as addition and subtraction. He also drew a picture in his lesson book:
On Friday, We did a comprehensive math review, and I gave Grant a little "test" to give me an idea of where he is with his math skills. He did really well, and got all the answers right.
These were the form drawings Grant worked on this week:
Next week Grant and I will begin new material with our first language arts block using stories from the Old Testament.
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