On Monday, we started off our week with "clay day". This will be the last in our series of modeling for awhile. Grant modeled a cube with the fingertips of his right hand behind his back. Next week, we will be doing a different exercise on Mondays.
We also did the penny whistle lesson and reviewed time telling on our clock. For math review, we did a new game called "lots of boxes" out of our "Math Games" book. Grant rolled his dice once to find the number of squares along the bottom of his box (on grid paper), and then rolled the dice a second time to find how many squares tall his box would be. Once you have these first two lines you can complete the box and then use an addition equation, or a multiplication equation, to write out the number of boxes.
Once we were done with all that fun stuff, I read Grant a story from our "Stories of the Saints" book about Joan of Arc. And no, the story does not include anything about her burning at the stake. She really did have a very interesting life, but she sure did get a bad deal at the end! Proper laws and procedures were not followed during her trial, and that bad part was she couldn't even read any of the documents they had her signing. It is amazing what one, poor peasant girl was able to do for the country of France!
After I read the story, we drew our pictures in our main lesson books.
Mom's Drawing
Grant's Drawing
On Tuesday, we started with jump roping, and reviewed skip counting with bean bag tosses. Afterward, I had Grant retell me Joan's story, and then we summarized it, and he copied it into his lesson book. We did some LA exercises on the board with the summary. This time I misspelled some words and Grant had to figure them out and spell them correctly.
We also read this book for a fun review of nouns:
I also read the kids this book:
The kids also started making their valentines on Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, I started teaching Grant a new string game and he requested the "lots of boxes" for math review. After that I read Grant this book about Saint Valentine. There are a lot of different stories out there about him, but this one took place in Rome when the Christians were being persecuted. Valentine was a physician and a priest. He was known for his abilities to heal, and help those in need. He was arrested for being a Christian and put in prison where he would write notes signed, "Love Your Valentine". He was also executed, but one again we didn't get into that.
After reading the book, Grant and I drew our pictures:
Mom's Drawing
Grant's Drawing
We finished out the week with Grant re-telling me the story of Saint Valentine, summarizing, and copying.
We also finished making valentines, and made some boxes for the kids to hold their valentines they got from the party with the local home school group.
I couldn't believe some of the valentine boxes at that party! Check these out:
The play center where they had the party, had an indoor skating rink. Julia liked to stand right on the line and watch the kids skate by.
They also had a big indoor playground, and "arcade" games that the kids enjoyed playing.
They were most excited to come home with all the Valentine cards!
On Friday afternoon, I read the kids another fun Valentine's Day book:
Finally, on Sunday we ate heart-shaped waffles for breakfast (since Dad won't be home Monday morning)on our heart-shaped plates, and made these yummy Valentine's Day cookies.
They are jam-filled peanut butter cookies, but Johanna is not a big fan of the peanut butter and jelly combo, so we made a few chocolate ones for her.
Next week we will spend the whole week on Saint Francis.
