TGIF

I am soooooo glad we skipped school yesterday. We had a much better day today.

We started with math this morning. Jimmy reviewed the calendar (he's getting good at it, but he's not even close to being bored yet, so we'll keep it up). Then we played with linking cubes, this time with a little more structure. We linked 5 cubes again, compared the stacks again, but then we repeated the color pattern from our calendar. October's color pattern is orange-brown. So we linked a brown cube on an orange cube, added an orange cube, then a brown cube, then an orange cube. This taught counting (using linking cubes) plus pattern repetition. The counting part is definitely beneath Jimmy, but I understand the need to build on the simple counting skills so we can get to the more complex stuff like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division eventually.

Today was art day, so we read through the book, NotMJ, reviewing italics. We drew with pastels to see how the author/artist created this book. Then we decorated a picture of moon jellyfish by covering it with sparkly ribbon (I couldn't find any glitter in the house, so I improvised). We glued the moonjellies into our lapbook for NotMJ along with the map we colored earlier this week. I also printed out a cover for the front of the lapbook folder.

Then we moved onto the letter of the week - B. Jimmy reviewed his memory verse, which he has completely memorized. He colored pictures of objects that start with B - book, ball, etc. Then he cut them out & we glued them into the LotW lapbook. I wrote captions which Jimmy copied. His little "a" was not so good, so we'll have to keep reviewing handwriting somehow. I think these lapbooks are a good way of doing that, but I might need to add a few other whole-word writing into our handwriting practice during the rest of the week.

Caleb actually sat to hear the book today. He really enjoyed using the scissors during LotW work. And, as always, he loved playing with the linking cubes. We made big improvement when it came time to clean them up. It's usually a lot more challenging to get him to give up those fun math toys.