That's the name of the FIAR book we're reading this week. It's a really cute story about a little boy who finds a moon jellyfish on his way to the family hot dog stand, where he helps. After a long, busy day, his grandmother takes him out to sea so they can release the moonjelly & see all of the glittery jellyfish. After we read the book, we looked up moon jellyfish online to learn a little more about them. Jimmy remembered that we saw them at the Pittsburgh Zoo earlier this month. Jimmy & Caleb both loved the short video of a moonjelly pulsating the best of all of internet research this morning.
For math, we again reviewed the calendar. Then we brought out the pictogram we did last Friday. Today, we added several more family members, sorted them by boy/girl, and glued them on the big graph. It's now hanging on the wall. We finished math by playing with teddy bear counters and pattern blocks - together! Caleb really liked this part, and he was sad when it was time to put them away.
The letter of this week is B. We read our Bible verse - "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." Matthew 5:9. It's a little longer than last week's verse, but I'm sure Jimmy will have it memorized in no time. We'll start handwritting the big & little B's tomorrow.
I dug out some sight word flash cards. I had Jimmy read the 1 & 2 letter words, plus a handful of related 3 letter words (like "yes" along with "no" and some key ones like "the" and "and"). Jimmy remembers a lot of the phonics work we did last year, which impresses me since we had so much trouble with that curriculum. It makes me feel better knowing that he'll still be learning even when I mess things up for a little while. =) I think he might do better in an unstructured phonics program for now, even though he's doing well in structured math.
Tomorrow we'll have a guest at school - Grandmom!
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