I did however, read Johanna this book:
While I was reading the book to Johanna, Grant drew this chalkboard drawing to go with it. I guess he didn't like mine.
After I read the story, we set up the scene with toys, and we all played with it for a little while before Grant and I moved onto our main lesson work.
I told Grant a few short stories about Noah. These were stories about Noah before he built the ark.
After I read the stories, Grant and I drew pictures in our main lesson book. These pictures go with the story of Noah protecting his herd of sheep from a group of young men from the nearby city who were up to no good.
Mom's Picture
Grant's Picture
Once we were done with our drawings, we all moved up to the kitchen to carve our pumpkins. Grant designed a face he wanted to carve into his, while Johanna, Julia and I voted for a cat face. Grant and Julia worked on Grant's pumpkin, while Johanna and I worked on "the cat".
Here are the finished pumpkins:
Later on that evening, we packed up our pumpkins, Halloween costumes, our wagon and some pumpkin whoopie pies, and headed for Grandma and Grandpa's house for dinner and trick-or-treating.
On Tuesday, we started off our school day with a French lesson and Grant also did some spelling practice. Once we were done with that, I re-told Johanna (and Grant and Julia) the story of Woody, Hazel and Little Pip using the toys as props.
Once I was finished with that, Grant told me the stories about Noah from Monday, and then he copied a summary into his lesson book.
While Grant was doing his copy work, Johanna helped me make buns (Mrs. Hazelnut brought them over to Mrs. Acorn's house, in case you were wondering..). We ate the buns for lunch along with some chocolate hazelnut spread.
After Johanna and I were done making the buns, and I reviewed Grant's copy work, I told Grant a few stories about the building of the ark, and the loading of the animals. I read from the bible how God instructed the ark to be built 300 cubits long, by 50 cubits wide, by 30 cubits high. I showed Grant a piece of wood that was 18 inches, which is about the length of a cubit. After that we headed outside to measure off the length of the ark for ourselves so Grant could get an idea of just how big it was.
Here are three short videos showing how we measured it off. Unfortunately, the memory card filled up while I was shooting the third and final video showing how far 300 cubits was. The video got cut off, after about 4 seconds, but you can still see how far Grant and I are away from our starting point.
In the afternoon, Grant decided he wanted to do some needle felting, and felted Johanna a heart.
On Wednesday, I told the story of Woody, Hazel and Little Pip again, but this time Johanna helped me.
Afterward, Grant and I talked about the animals that were loaded onto the ark, and how there were actually seven of all the clean animals on the ark. We also talked more about what the ark may have looked liked using this book for pictures.
This book has some awesome pictures!
After we finished looking at the book, Grant and I drew a picture of the outside of the ark.
Mom's Picture
Grant's Picture
On Thursday, we wrapped up our study of the ark with a few more stories from the book we have been using for our lessons, and I also read the above book all the way through. Once I was done reading the book, Grant and I drew a cross section of what the ark may have looked like on the inside.
Mom's Picture
Grant's Picture
Once we were done with that, we continued to talk about linear measurement, and I had Grant draw out a design for a chicken coop. He figured out what the measurements would have to be if each chicken needed 1 cubit of space. He decided he wanted 55 chickens, so he figured he would need 55 nesting boxes each measuring 1 cubit across.
Next week we will continue to talk about linear measurement, and get ready for Martinmas.
