We started everyday with our same "pre-lesson" work. French, music, spelling, math and reading.
Afterward, Johanna (she actually drew two pictures) and I drew a picture of her.
Johanna's Saint Lucia Picture 1
Johanna's Saint Lucia Picture 2
We also pulled out the Saint Lucia crown for Johanna, and the Star Boy hat for Grant that we made last year.
On Monday, I also read Grant a short story about Hanukkah.
After I was done with the story, Grant and I drew a picture of a menorah.
Mom's Drawing
Grant's Drawing
On Tuesday, we took the day off from school to spend the time celebrating Saint Lucia Day. I read another book about Saint Lucia.
While I read the book, there was Gloog (basically apple cider with the addition of cardamom)warming up on the stove, and dough rising to make our saffron Lucia buns. Once I was finished reading the book, we made the buns.
With all this talk of Saint Luica, it wouldn't be right not to mention our little "Lucia".
In the afternoon, Grant and Johanna worked on a few more Christmas crafts from our "crafty Christmas" box.
On Wednesday, I had Grant re-tell me the story off Hanukkah, we came up with a summary, and then he wrote it in his lesson book.
After he was finished, the kids painted dreidels from this kit I got at Target. There just happened to be three dreidels inside.
For some unknown reason, Mom decided not to put the kid's painting smocks on, and Julia totally got orange paint all over her gingerbread shirt (which did not come out in the wash). Oops!
Once the dreidels were dry, I explained to Grant the history behind the dreidel game, and then we played using white chocolate chunks as ante.
On Thursday, Grant and I went through his lesson book and reviewed everything we had done during this measurement block. The next two weeks we will be on Christmas break. Grant and I will start back up in January with a language arts block using more stories from the Old Testament.
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas!
