Even Dad got in on the action:
Here are a few photos Grant took:
Here is one photo Johanna took (plus a few extra that were in her camera):
As we were coming to the end of our walk on Monday, we noticed the hail damage to our mighty elephant ears. Boo,hoo...
Once inside we began each day with circle time, which now includes some review of simple math problems using plus, minus, times and divide during our bean bag toss, as well as skip counting.
I introduced the form drawing for the week and Grant practiced drawing it on his chalkboard.
Afterward, I told the Grant the story of The Crow and the Pitcher. We saw how the crow dropped stones into the pitcher to be able to reach the water. Moral: Necessity is the mother of invention, or thoughtfulness is superior to brute strength.
I think my crow looks like some weird cross between a crow and a turkey..
Grant and I drew our pictures with our block crayons.
Grant's Drawing
Mom's Drawing
On Tuesday, I drew the form drawing on the driveway and had Grant walk it both forward and backward.
Later, in the school room, Grant re-told the story to us and then we wrote up a summary.
I gave Grant a snack break before he began his copy work and there was hardly any complaining about it today! We also worked to get the summary as short as we could. He read what he copied twice and then we did some LA exercises on the board. I had him underline all the words that had a "th" sound in them, circle all the words with a short "a" sound in them, and put a box around all the words with a "ch" sound.
Once we finished with the language arts portion of the lesson we went outside for a little science lesson. We took a vase with some water in the bottom and reached our fingers into it to show, how like the crow, we couldn't touch it (of course, Johanna and Julia could stick there whole hand into the vase so it didn't quite work with them). Then we added stones and watched the water level rise. I did not go into the details of volume and water displacement at this time, but used this to help awaken Grant to the world around him, and see the magic in the simplest phenomena.
In the afternoon, Grant (with a little help from moi) started working on his Christmas present for Julia. We are going to be making a felt fishing set which should look something like this:
On Wednesday, Grant read an excerpt from a vintage children's book, and then he practiced drawing his form more on his chalkboard before drawing it in his MLB.
After that I read him the story of the Tortoise and The Hare. I think we all know the moral of this one: Slow and steady wins the race.
After I read it, we drew a picture. He was very happy when I changed it up a bit, and we used block and stick crayons instead of the block crayons only. I have to say, I think I actually prefer the block crayons.
Mom's Drawing
Grant's Drawing
On Thursday, Grant re-told the story to us, then we summarized it, and Grant copied the summary into his book. Once Grant read through the summary a couple times, I changed the spelling of some of the words on the board, and then had to find the mis-spelled words and re-write them correctly.
Grant was very cooperative in school this week! It was soooo nice.
The cats joined us again everyday this week, and this is definitely their favorite spot:
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