I have also noticed in Grant's copy work that he has developed a few bad habits when writing his letters, so I have been having him take time to practice writing those letters when we are working on spelling. I also added in some exercises for Grant from this book:
He does not have any "difficulties" as the title suggests, there are just a lot of great exercises to promote, balance, coordination, reading, writing, drawing, painting, etc. All kinds of goodness for making good neural pathways and connections. Trust me, it's a good thing!
On Monday, I read Grant the story of Jubal, one of Cain's other sons. He brought music to the earth.
After I read the story, we drew a picture in our lesson books.
Mom's Picture
Grant's Picture
I also introduced the form drawing for the week.
I read this book to Johanna:
After I finished reading the book, Johanna and I drew a picture from the story.
Mom's Picture
Johanna's Picture
We also had A LOT of fun the in the afternoon making these monster t-shirts.
We ironed on the background of the monsters, then the kids got to pick from many different, mouths, eyes, etc. to create their own unique monsters. They came up with some pretty funny combinations before choosing their final designs.
On Tuesday, I had Grant tell me the story of Jubal, and then we came up with a summary together. He copied the summary in his lesson book, and this time we just underlined all the nouns, verbs and adjectives. We used different colors for each one.
I read Johanna this book:
After I read the book, she decided to do her own drawing from the story while I was working with Grant.
She also decided to do another drawing of Lono:
To go with the pumpkin theme of our book, Johanna and I made a pumpkin cake topped off with cream cheese frosting. Johanna did most of it herself (including cracking the eggs), and was once again proud of here baking skills.
It is a bit funny because Johanna didn't like the frosting, while Julia loved the frosting and could care less about the cake.
On Wednesday, we continued working on some of the exercises from The Extra Lesson Book. This was one Grant really liked. The book called it "Left-Right Ball Exercise"(or bean bags in our case), Grant called it juggling.
I told Grant the story of Cain's third son, Thubal-Cain. He was the first blacksmith.
After I read the story, Grant and I modeled tools out of clay. Grant made a hammer, and I made a hoe.
The girls were not about to just sit and watch Grant and I play with clay. They had to have some, too!
I also read Johanna this book:
On Thursday, Grant told me the story of Thubal-Cain, we summarized the story, and then Grant copied it into his lesson book.
He also drew the form drawing he had been practicing during the week in his book.
Afterwards, I read Grant a story about how the three bothers, Jabal, Jubal and Thubal-Cain worked together to build the first houses. Then we worked on building our own "sentence house".
We used verbs to make up the structure of the house, then we had a box of materials with nouns, adjectives, punctuation, etc. We talked about how all these components come together to make a sentence, and sentences come together to make paragraphs.
Next week, we will continue to read more stories about the descendants of Adam and Eve, and do some more fun Halloween activities.
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