School tantrum

Caleb was NOT happy that we had school today. He ended up with a timeout. After the timeout, tho, he was a much happier camper. He colored during much of the rest of school.

Jimmy was a champ thru the whole thing. He was very patient & waited on the couch (aka school room) until I got back from dealing with Caleb.

School today was pretty light. We read the book, this time showing each place on the map. The girl in the book gathers ingredients for her pie from Italy (wheat for flour), Paris (chicken for eggs), Sri Lanka (kurundu bark for cinnamon), England (cow for milk for butter), Jamaica (for sugar cane for sugar, with a dip in the Atlantic Ocean for sea water for salt). Oh yeah, and Vermont for apples, which she almost forgot. Jimmy enjoyed our tour of the world.

Math was also pretty light. We did our calendar stuff, then introduced counting bears. I had orginally planned on using milk jug caps, but we didn't gather enough for today's lesson. I also read ahead & discovered that the counters being bears might actually be important. (They "get tired" in one lesson & need to "sit" on pattern blocks.) So I think we're going to the Educational Warehouse after naps today. Oh well, it was worth a shot. For today, tho, I found some Care Bear stickers that I put onto pieces of cardstock. Jimmy matched them (two of each Care Bear), & I had him group them by color groups. He counted the bears in each group & found out how to tell how many more there were in the larger group.

Finally, we did our Bible memory verse (Jimmy's already got it down pat) & wrote 4 more big A's and 4 more little a's. His handwriting is definitely better than yesterday's. By the end of the week, he'll be making rather decent A's. I think we'll review past letters in the weeks to come to keep his handwriting fresh. I'll have to find words that start with the Letter of the Week that contain our previous letters. (Like Bat, Cab, etc.)