First week - CHECK!

All done! This week went very well. Today, Jimmy finally noticed that we've read the same book all week. LOL!

I forgot to post yesterday, so I'll give that update first.

We started by doing math. We reviewed the calendar & played with our new teddy bear counters. Jimmy is really coming along with the calendar stuff. The only problem he's still having is with the dates, & that's because we started so late in the month. Counting in the 20's is still problematic. But we're getting there! Reading the days of the week is helping him learn to read in general, too, so that's a bonus. After math, we read the book of the week (HtMaAP&StW) & reviewed the Bible memory verse. (Jimmy is really good at the memory verse.) Then we settled into the big project of the day - making lapbooks! We used tabbed file folders as the base & glued on different things. We made one for the book, with a map (marking where the apple pie maker went to get her ingredients), a hand-drawn street scene (Jimmy drew our street; it represents one of the pages in the book where she's getting a chicken from Paris to lay eggs for her pie), and apples (well, that's obvious, isn't it?). We made another one for the Letter of the Week - A. This also had an apple (same as the book's lapbook) & a picture of an ant. I wrote "apple" and "ant" under the pictures, then Jimmy wrote them. It will be cool to see how his handwriting improves during the year. I had intended them to be simply lap books, but Jimmy wants to store his paperwork in them. This week, we only had handwritting practice for "A" and "a" but I can see us storing all kinds of other things in both folders in future weeks.

Today's lessons were much more laid back. We started with the book. Today's book activity was introducing kitchen measuring devices. The book has an apple pie recipe at the end. We read the recipe's ingredients & found what we'd need to use to measure them. Cup, 1/2 cup, teaspoon, 1/4 teaspoon, and tablespoon. I think Jimmy was rather unimpressed, tho. =) Then we did math. Jimmy did well with the calendar, as usual. Then we introduced pictograms. Jimmy drew faces on round pieces of paper to represent him, me, Daddy, & Caleb. Then he sorted them onto a table by boys & girls. He learned that we could easily tell how many people in our family were boys & how many were girls by using this chart. I think we're going to expand on this by adding members of our extended family. Caleb didn't like this math lesson as much, tho - no toys! LOL! We finished by quickly reviewing our Bible verse (Jimmy has it completely memorized) & practicing writing A and a.

This was an amazing week. I hope it continues! We all had a fabulous time. (Even Caleb, who got cranky at parts - he still cheers when I announce "It's schooltime!!!")